Isolation of Neospora caninum from a blind calf in Paraná, southern Brazil

Veterinary Record

Volumn 153, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 366-367

  Locatelli Dittrich, R ^a   Richartz, R R T B ^b   Gasino Joineau, M E ^b   Pinckney, R D ^c   de Sousa, R S ^a   Leite, L C ^a   Thomaz Soccol, V ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b Centro Diagnóstico Marcos Enrietti   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; PARASITE ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BRAIN TISSUE; BRAZIL; CATTLE DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DAIRY CATTLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERODIAGNOSIS; VETERINARY ABORTION;

BOS TAURUS; NEOSPORA CANINUM;

EID: 0141503291     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/vr.153.12.366     Document Type: Article

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