A field study to estimate the prevalence of Trypanosoma equiperdum in Mongolian horses

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 9-18

  Clausen, Peter Henning ^a   Chuluun, Saruultuya ^a   Sodnomdarjaa, Ruuragchaa ^b   Greiner, Matthias ^a   Noeckler, Karsten ^c   Staak, Christian ^c   Zessin, Karl Hans ^a   Schein, Eberhard ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Ctrl Vet Diagnostic Laboratory   (Mongolia)

^c Fed Inst Hlth Protect C   (Germany)

Author keywords

CFT; Diagnosis; Dourine; ELISA; Mongolia; PCR; Trypanosoma equiperdum

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD SMEAR; BODY CONSTITUTION; COMPLEMENT FIXATION TEST; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HORSE; MONGOLIA; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTOR; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA EQUIPERDUM; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA EQUIPERDUM; TRYPANOSOMA EVANSI; TRYPANOZOON;

EID: 0038305139     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4017(03)00160-2     Document Type: Article

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