Humoral immune response to infectious agents in aborted bovine fetuses in Argentina

Revista Argentina de Microbiologia

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 143-148

  Moore, D P ^a   Campero, C M ^a   Odeon A C ^a   Bardon J C ^b   Silva Paulo, P ^c   Paolicchi, F A ^a,d   Cipolla, A L ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

^b Laboratorio Azul   (Argentina)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Bovine fetuses; Humoral immune responses; Infectious agents

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ABORTION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BEEF CATTLE; BOVINE HERPES VIRUS; BOVINE VIRUS DIARRHEA VIRUS 1; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRY CATTLE; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; INFECTION; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; MALE; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NONHUMAN; VIRUS;

ABORTION, VETERINARY; AMNIOTIC FLUID; ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HERPESVIRUS 1, BOVINE; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS;

EID: 0142104856     PISSN: 03257541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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