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Toxoplasma gondii in the Cornigliese sheep breed in Italy: Meat juice serology, in vitro isolation and genotyping.
Veterinary parasitology - 30 Aug 2017
Vismarra A, Barilli E, Miceli M, Mangia C, Genchi M, Brindani F, Kramer L, Bacci C
Abstract excerpt
Toxoplasma gondii is considered one of the most important food-borne parasitic zoonoses globally and sheep are important intermediate hosts of the parasite. Meat and milk from infected sheep are considered an important source of infection for humans. Here, the authors evaluated T. gondii infection in the Italian Cornigliese sheep breed using meat juice ELISA, and in vitro assay for followed by Real Time-PCR and...
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