Heifers immunized with whole-cell and membrane vaccines against Tritrichomonas foetus and naturally challenged with an infected bull

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 109, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 169-184

  Cobo, Eduardo Rubén ^a   Cano, Dora ^b   Rossetti, Osvaldo ^c   Campero, Carlos Manuel ^b  

^a Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas   (Argentina)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

^c Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias Agropecuarias   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Bovine; Protozoa; Tritrichomonas foetus; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOAL VACCINE; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS WASTAGE; HEMOLYSIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNIZATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MATING; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICHOMONAS FOETUS; TRICHOMONIASIS; VACCINATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; HEMOLYSIS; MALE; MASTIGOPHORA INFECTIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PROTOZOAN VACCINES; REPRODUCTION; TIME FACTORS; TRITRICHOMONAS FOETUS; VACCINATION;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE; PROTOZOA; TRITRICHOMONAS; TRITRICHOMONAS FOETUS;

EID: 0037064628     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4017(02)00301-1     Document Type: Article

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