Neosporosis as a cause of equine protozoal myeloencephalitis

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 209, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1907-1913

  Marsh, Antoinette E ^a   Barr, Bradd C ^b   Madigan, John ^a   Lakritz, Jeffrey ^a   Nordhausen, Robert ^b   Conrad, Patricia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COCCIDIOSIS; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; NEOSPORA; PARASITOLOGY; SPINAL CORD; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; COCCIDIOSIS; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEOSPORA; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0030340841     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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