Prevalence of antibodies to Encephalitozoon cuniculi in horses in Israel

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 265-267

  Levkutová, Mária ^a   Hipíková, Vlasta ^a   Faitelzon, Shay ^a   Benath, Gad ^b   Paulík, Štefan ^a   Levkut, Mikuláš ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Slovakia)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Clinical signs; Encephalitozoon cuniculi; Horses; Positivity

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLIC; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; HEALTH HAZARD; HORSE; HOST; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; ISRAEL; MAMMAL; MICROSPORUM; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SEROCONVERSION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIBODY FORMATION; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENCEPHALITOZOONOSIS; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; HUMANS; ISRAEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALIA; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; MAMMALIA; MICROSPORIDIUM; MICROSPORUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 11244325823     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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