Management factors associated with Babesia bovis seroprevalence in cattle from eastern Yucatan, Mexico

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 261-269

  Solorio Rivera, José L ^a   Rodríguez Vivas, Roger I ^b   Pérez Gutierrez, Enrique ^c   Wagner, Gale ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD MICHOACANA DE SAN NICOLÁS DE HIDALGO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE YUCATÁN   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Babesia bovis; Cattle parasitological diseases; Clusters; Cross sectional studies; ELISA; Mexico; Seroprevalence

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BABESIA BOVIS; BABESIOSIS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MEXICO; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BABESIA BOVIS; BABESIOSIS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEXICO; RISK FACTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 0345161481     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5877(99)00019-7     Document Type: Article

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