Neospora species infection in a herd of dairy cattle

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 208, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1441-1444

  Björkman, Camilla ^a   Johansson, Olof ^b   Stenlund, Susanne ^a   Holmdahl, O Joakim M ^a   Uggla, Arvid ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b Dala Gavle Husdjur   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BLOOD; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; COCCIDIOSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; IMMUNOLOGY; NEOSPORA; PARASITOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; VETERINARY ABORTION;

ABORTION, VETERINARY; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; NEOSPORA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC;

EID: 0030139748     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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