Studies on pathogenesis, tissue infection and congenital transmission in cows experimentally infected with Sarcocystis cruzi by various routes

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 319-327

  Savini, G ^a   Dunsmore, J D ^b   Robertson, I D ^b  

^a ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELL ABRUZZO E DEL MOLISE G CAPORALE   (Italy)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cattle protozoa; Sarcocystis cruzi; Transmission

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CATTLE; COCCIDIOSIS; CONGENITAL INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PATHOGENESIS; SARCOCYSTIS; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; PROTOZOA; SARCOCYSTIS CRUZI;

EID: 0030590506     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-4017(95)00929-9     Document Type: Article

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