Molecular and immunodiagnosis of bovine neosporosis in Switzerland;Molekular- Und immundiagnostische Untersuchungen zur bovinen Neosporose in der Schweiz

Schweizer Archiv fur Tierheilkunde

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 59-68

  Gottstein, B ^a   Hentrich, B ^b   Wyss, R ^b   Thur B ^b   Bruckner, L ^b   Muller N ^b   Kaufmann, H ^b   Waldvogel, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BRAIN; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; COCCIDIOSIS; FEMALE; FETUS; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NEOSPORA; PARASITOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SWITZERLAND; VETERINARY ABORTION;

ABORTION, VETERINARY; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BRAIN; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; FETUS; NEOSPORA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0032618749     PISSN: 00367281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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