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Exposure of yellow-legged gulls to Toxoplasma gondii along the Western Mediterranean coasts: Tales from a sentinel

  • 1. CEFE, CNRS, University of Montpellier, EPHE, University Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, IRD, Montpellier, France
  • 2. Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
  • 3. INSERM UMR_S 1094, Neuroépidémiologie Tropicale, Laboratoire de Parasitologie-Mycologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Limoges, Limoges 87025, France & Centre National de Référence Toxoplasmose/Toxoplasma Biological Resource Center, CHU Limoges, 87042 Limoges, France
  • 4. INSERM UMR_S 1094, Neuroépidémiologie Tropicale, Laboratoire de Parasitologie-Mycologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Limoges, Limoges 87025, France
  • 5. Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Laboratoire de Parasitologie - Mycologie, EA 3800, UFR Médecine, SFR CAP-SANTÉ, Reims, France & Laboratoire de Parasitologie-Mycologie, Centre National de Référence de la Toxoplasmose, Hôpital Maison Blanche, CHU Reims, Reims, France
  • 6. Servei de Vigilància i Control de Plagues Urbanes, Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain & CIBER Epidemiologia y salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
  • 7. UR "Ecologie de la Faune Terrestre" (UR17ES44), Faculté des Sciences de Gabès, Université de Gabès, Gabès, Tunisia
  • 8. IMEDEA, CSIC-UIB, Esporles, Spain & CEAB, CSIC, Blanes, Spain

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Gamble, Amandine, Ramos, Raül, Parra-Torres, Yaiza, Mercier, Aurélien, Galal, Lokman, Pearce-Duvet, Jessica, Villena, Isabelle, Montalvo, Tomás, González-Solís, Jacob, Hammouda, Abdessalem, Oro, Daniel, Selmi, Slaheddine, Boulinier, Thierry (2019): Exposure of yellow-legged gulls to Toxoplasma gondii along the Western Mediterranean coasts: Tales from a sentinel. International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 8: 221-228, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijppaw.2019.01.002, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijppaw.2019.01.002

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