Serum antibodies to Sarcocystis neurona - half the horses in the United States have them!

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 210, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 482-483

  MacKay, Roben J ^a  

^a University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BIRD; BLOOD; COCCIDIOSIS; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NOTE; OPOSSUM; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SARCOCYSTIS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BIRDS; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; OPOSSUMS; PREVALENCE; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTOSIS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031568665     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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