Detection of Neospora sp. from infected bovine tissues by PCR and probe hybridization

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 508-514

  Ho, Michael S Y ^a   Barr, Bradd C ^a,b   Rowe, Joan D ^a,c   Anderson, Mark L ^a,b   Sverlow, Karen W ^a,b   Packham, Andrea ^a,b   Marsh, Antoinette E ^a   Conrad, Patricia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b California Vet Diagn Laboratory   (United States)

^c Dept of Pop Hlth and Reproduction ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ABORTION; AMNION FLUID ANALYSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CATTLE; COCCIDIA; COCCIDIOSIS; CONGENITAL INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; GENE SEQUENCE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CULTIVATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA GENE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ABORTION, VETERINARY; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; MALE; NEOSPORA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030964207     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3284418     Document Type: Article

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