Lack of Detectable Shedding of Cryptosporidium parvum Oocysts by Periparturient Dairy Cattle

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1234-1236

  Atwill, E R ^a   Pereira, M Das G C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATTLE; DETECTION METHOD; PARASITIC DISEASE; PARTURITION;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DAIRY CATTLE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FECES ANALYSIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PREVALENCE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; FECES; FEMALE; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0345737009     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-3192RN     Document Type: Article

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