Seropositivity and Risk Factors Associated with Toxoplasma gondii Infection in Wild Birds from Spain

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Cabezon, Oscar, Garcia-Bocanegra, Ignacio, Molina-Lopez, Rafael, Marco, Ignasi, Blanco, Juan M., Höfle, Ursula, Margalida, Antoni, Bach-Raich, Esther, Darwich, Laila, Echeverria, Israel, Obon, Elena, Hernandez, Mauro, Lavin, Santiago, Dubey, Jitender P., Almeria, Sonia
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2011
• Subjects: eurasian eagle-owl; Falco peregrinus; peregrine falcon; Aquila chrysaetos; golden eagle; osprey; Pandion haliaetus
• Online Access: https://boris.unibe.ch/9921/1/journal.pone.0029549.pdf; https://boris.unibe.ch/9921/

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...