Laboratory findings in cows after experimental infection with Ehrlichia phagocytophila

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 643-647

  Pusterla, Nicola ^a   Huder, Jon ^a   Wolfensberger, Celestine ^a   Braun, Ueli ^a   Lutz, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; EHRLICHIA; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MILK; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROCONVERSION;

EID: 0030779277     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/cdli.4.6.643-647.1997     Document Type: Article

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