Prevalence of toxoplasmosis and genetic characterization of Toxoplasma gondii strains isolated in wild birds of prey and their relation with previously isolated strains from Turkey

Muhammet Karakavuk; Duygu Aldemir; Aurélien Mercier; Esra Atalay Şahar; Hüseyin Can; Jean-Benjamin Murat; Ömer Döndüren; Şengül Can; Hüseyin Gökhan Özdemir; Aysu Değirmenci Döşkaya; Bayram Pektaş; Marie-Laure Dardé; Adnan Yüksel Gürüz; Mert Döşkaya

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0196159

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Prevalence of toxoplasmosis and genetic characterization of Toxoplasma gondii strains isolated in wild birds of prey and their relation with previously isolated strains from Turkey

Muhammet Karakavuk,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Ege University Faculty of Medicine, Bornova, İzmir, Turkey
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Duygu Aldemir,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Uludağ University Institute of Health Sciences, Görükle Campus, Nilüfer-Bursa, Turkey, İzmir Wildlife Park, Municipality of İzmir, Sasalı, Çiğli, İzmir, Turkey
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Aurélien Mercier,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre National de Référence (CNR) Toxoplasmose/ Toxoplasma Biological Resource Center (BRC), Centre Hospitalier-Universitaire Dupuytren and INSERM UMR 1094, Neuroépidémiologie Tropicale, Laboratoire de Parasitologie-Mycologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Limoges, Limoges, France
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Esra Atalay Şahar,

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Ege University Faculty of Medicine, Bornova, İzmir, Turkey
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Hüseyin Can,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biology, Molecular Biology Section, Ege University Faculty of Science, Bornova, İzmir, Turkey
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Jean-Benjamin Murat,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre National de Référence (CNR) Toxoplasmose/ Toxoplasma Biological Resource Center (BRC), Centre Hospitalier-Universitaire Dupuytren and INSERM UMR 1094, Neuroépidémiologie Tropicale, Laboratoire de Parasitologie-Mycologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Limoges, Limoges, France
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Ömer Döndüren,

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation The Protection and Development Union of İzmir Bird Paradise, Konak, İzmir, Turkey
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Şengül Can,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Computer Research and Application Center, Manisa Celal Bayar University, Muradiye, Manisa, Turkey
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Hüseyin Gökhan Özdemir,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation The Protection and Development Union of İzmir Bird Paradise, Konak, İzmir, Turkey
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Aysu Değirmenci Döşkaya,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Ege University Faculty of Medicine, Bornova, İzmir, Turkey
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Bayram Pektaş,

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation İzmir Atatürk Training and Research Hospital, Department of Microbiology, Yeşilyurt, İzmir, Turkey
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Marie-Laure Dardé,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre National de Référence (CNR) Toxoplasmose/ Toxoplasma Biological Resource Center (BRC), Centre Hospitalier-Universitaire Dupuytren and INSERM UMR 1094, Neuroépidémiologie Tropicale, Laboratoire de Parasitologie-Mycologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Limoges, Limoges, France
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Adnan Yüksel Gürüz,

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Ege University Faculty of Medicine, Bornova, İzmir, Turkey
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Mert Döşkaya

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: mert.doskaya@ege.edu.tr

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Ege University Faculty of Medicine, Bornova, İzmir, Turkey

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6868-008X

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Prevalence of toxoplasmosis and genetic characterization of Toxoplasma gondii strains isolated in wild birds of prey and their relation with previously isolated strains from Turkey

Muhammet Karakavuk,
Duygu Aldemir,
Aurélien Mercier,
Esra Atalay Şahar,
Hüseyin Can,
Jean-Benjamin Murat,
Ömer Döndüren,
Şengül Can,
Hüseyin Gökhan Özdemir,
Aysu Değirmenci Döşkaya

Published: April 18, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0196159

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