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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 7.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Parasitol. 2000 Nov;30(12-13):1217–1258. doi: 10.1016/s0020-7519(00)00124-7

Table 1.

Entries on T. gondii or toxoplasmosis in different publication databases

Search termsa ParasiteCDb VETCDc PubMedd
Toxoplasm* 10 753 6615 12 605
AND human* 8546 3915 9086
AND animal* 10 567 6611 6186
AND (zoonosis OR zoonoses) 553 604 253
AND (congenital OR pregnancy) 1400 377 3051
AND (immunocompromised OR immunosuppression) 1027 168 525
AND AIDS 882 49 1754
AND (prevalence OR seroprevalence) 1585 942 2275
AND epidemiology 1305 777 2141
AND transmission 707 473 859
AND (source* OR route*) AND infection 200 160 212
AND (tachyzoite* OR endozoite*) 980 791 782
AND (tissue cyst* OR bradyzoite* OR cystozoite*) 454 404 231
AND (oocyst* OR sporozoite*) 687 662 407
AND (therapy OR treatment) 2670 1040 3725
AND control 1632 894 1498
AND ((prevention OR preventive) NOT control) 252 120 120
AND (risk factor*) 99 36 36
AND (economy OR economic impact) 15 15 46
a

Boolean operators (in capitals) and truncations (*) were as shown. In PubMed phrase searching with double quotes was used to search for entries on ‘tissue cyst*’, ‘risk factor*’ and ‘economic impact’.

b

ParasiteCD, 1973–2000/04 (CAB International); searches were carried out using the search and retrieval software WinSPIRS, version 2.0 (Silver-Platter International, N.V.).

c

VETCD, 1973–2000/05 (CAB International); searches were carried out using the search and retrieval software WinSPIRS, version 2.0 (SilverPlatter International, N.V.).

d

PubMed, 1966–2000/07; searches were carried out using the advanced search options of the new PubMed system of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), USA.