Reduced incidence of Babesia bigemina infection in cattle immunized against the Cattle Tick, Boophilus microplus

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1026, Issue , 2004, Pages 312-318

  Jittapalapong, Sathaporn ^a   Jansawan, Weeraphol ^a   Barriga, Omar O ^b   Stich, Roger W ^c  

^a KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Babesia bigemina; Babesiosis; Boophilus microplus; Cattle; Ticks

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT; PARASITE ANTIGEN; TISSUE EXTRACT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; BOOPHILUS MICROPLUS; CATTLE DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRY CATTLE; FEEDING; FEMALE; GRAZING; IMMUNITY; IMMUNIZATION; INFESTATION; INSECT CONTROL; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; SALIVARY GLAND; THAILAND; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; BABESIA; BABESIA BIGEMINA; BOOPHILUS MICROPLUS; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PROTOZOA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 10444228250     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1307.048     Document Type: Conference Paper

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