Risk of abortion associated with Neospora Caninum during different lactations and evidence of congenital transmission in

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 221, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1742-1746

  Hernandez, Jorge ^a   Risco, Carlos ^a   Donovan, Arthur ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHILDBIRTH; COLOSTRUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRY CATTLE; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; LACTATION; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTOR;

ABORTION, VETERINARY; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; FLORIDA; INCIDENCE; LACTATION; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; NEOSPORA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; NEOSPORA CANINUM;

EID: 0037114842     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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