First Portuguese isolate of Neospora caninum from an aborted fetus from a dairy herd with endemic neosporosis

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 110, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 11-15

  Canada, Nuno ^a   Meireles, Carla S ^a   Rocha, António ^a   Sousa, Susana ^b   Thompson, Gertrude ^a   Dubey, J P ^c   Romand, S ^d   Thulliez, P ^d   Correia da Costa, J M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Portugal)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d Institut de Puericulture   (France)

Author keywords

Abortion; Antibodies; Cattle; Isolation in mice; Neospora agglutination test; Neospora caninum; Portugal

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN HOMOGENATE; CATTLE DISEASE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRY CATTLE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FETUS; FETUS (ANATOMY); HERD; INOCULATION; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NEOSPOROSIS; NONHUMAN; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PERITONEUM EXUDATE; PORTUGAL; SARCOMA CELL; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ABORTION, VETERINARY; AGGLUTINATION TESTS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENDEMIC DISEASES; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; MICE; NEOSPORA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORTUGAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC;

BOS TAURUS; NEOSPORA; NEOSPORA CANINUM; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0037065225     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4017(02)00333-3     Document Type: Article

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