The effect of experimental infection of boran cattle in early and mid-pregnancy with trypanosoma vivax

British Veterinary Journal

Volumn 152, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 441-451

  Okech, G ^a   Watson, E D ^a   Luckins, A G ^a   Makawiti, D W ^a  

^a Kenya Trypanosomiasis Research Institute   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Abortion; Boran cattle; Pregnancy; Progesterone; Trypanosoma vivax

Indexed keywords

PROGESTERONE;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANEMIA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY WEIGHT; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; FEMALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; TRYPANOSOMA VIVAX;

ANEMIA; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CATTLE; FEMALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROGESTERONE; TRYPANOSOMA VIVAX; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, BOVINE;

EID: 0030187706     PISSN: 00071935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0007-1935(96)80038-8     Document Type: Review

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