Transmission of Neospora caninum between wild and domestic animals

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1361-1365

  Gondim, L F P ^a   McAllister, M M ^a   Mateus Pinilla, N E ^a,b   Pitt, W C ^a,c   Mech, L D ^a,d   Nelson, M E ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^c NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

DISEASE TRANSMISSION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CANIDAE; CATTLE; COCCIDIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COYOTE; DNA SEQUENCE; DOG; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; EVISCERATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HAMMONDIA HEYDORNI; MOOSE; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; WHITE TAILED DEER; WILDLIFE; WOLF; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BLOOD; CATTLE DISEASE; COCCIDIOSIS; CROSS REACTION; DEER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOG DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FECES; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; NEOSPORA; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; TOXOPLASMA; UNITED STATES; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; COYOTES; CROSS REACTIONS; DEER; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FECES; FEMALE; ILLINOIS; MALE; NEOSPORA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARCOCYSTIDAE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TOXOPLASMA; WOLVES;

EID: 14244253819     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-341R     Document Type: Article

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