Detection of antibodies against Sarcocystis neurona in cerebrospinal fluid from clinically normal neonatal foals

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 220, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 208-211

  Cook, Anne Grimsley ^a,c   Maxwell, Virginia Buechner ^a   Donaldson, Lydia L ^a   Parker, Nikola A ^a   Ward, Daniel L ^a   Morrow, Jennifer K ^b  

^a VIRGINIA MARYLAND REGIONAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Equine Biodiagnostics/IDEXX   (United States)

^c Davie County Large Animal Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTIS NEURONA;

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COCCIDIOSIS; FEMALE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; NEWBORN; PARASITOLOGY; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SARCOCYSTIS; TIME; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; IMMUNITY, MATERNALLY-ACQUIRED; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTOSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037079653     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.2002.220.208     Document Type: Article

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