Seropositivity and risk factors associated with Toxoplasma gondii infection in wild birds from Spain

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Cabezón, Óscar, García-Bocanegra, Ignacio, Molina-López, Rafael, Marco, Ignasi, Blanco, Juan Manuel, Höfle, Ursula, Margalida, Antoni, Bach-Raich, Esther, Darwich, Laila, Echeverría, Israel, Obón, Elena, Hernández, Mauro, Lavín, Santiago, Dubey, Jitender P., Almería, Sonia
• Other Authors: Junta de Castilla y León, Junta de Andalucía, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, CSIC-UCLM - Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos (IREC), Generalitat de Catalunya
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2011
• Subjects: Otis; eurasian eagle-owl; Falco peregrinus; peregrine falcon; Aquila chrysaetos; golden eagle; osprey; Pandion haliaetus
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/60090; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0029549; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100002809; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100011104; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100011011; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100014180

Toxoplasma gondii is a zoonotic intracellular protozoan parasite of worldwide distribution that infects many species of warm-blooded animals, including birds. To date, there is scant information about the seropositivity of T. gondii and the risk factors associated with T. gondii infection in wild bi...