Reproductive losses due to Neospora caninum in a beef herd in Argentina

Journal of Veterinary Medicine, Series B

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 304-308

  Moore, D P ^a,b   Campero, C M ^a   Odeon A C ^a   Chayer, R ^a,c   Bianco, M A ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^c Private Consultants   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; COCCIDIOSIS; FEMALE; FETUS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MEAT; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; NEOSPORA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY RATE; VETERINARY ABORTION;

ABORTION, VETERINARY; ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; FEMALE; FETUS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; MALE; MEAT; NEOSPORA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY RATE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS TAURUS; NEOSPORA CANINUM; TRITRICHOMONAS; TRITRICHOMONAS FOETUS;

EID: 0042073057     PISSN: 09311793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0450.2003.00673.x     Document Type: Article

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