Risk of transplacental transmission of Sarcocystis neurona and Neospora hughesi in California horses

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1345-1351

  Duarte, Paulo C ^a   Conrad, Patricia A ^a   Barr, Bradd C ^a   Wilson, W David ^a   Ferraro, Gregory L ^a   Packham, Andrea E ^a   Carpenter, Tim E ^a   Gardner, Ian A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ABORTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BIRTH; COLOSTRUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORSE; MORTALITY; NEOSPORA; NEOSPORA HUGHESI; NONHUMAN; PARASITE INCIDENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; RISK FACTOR; SARCOCYSTIS NEURONA; SEROLOGY; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BLOOD; COCCIDIOSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASE; IMMUNOLOGY; INCIDENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SARCOCYSTIS; VETERINARY ABORTION;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ABORTION, VETERINARY; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CALIFORNIA; COCCIDIOSIS; COHORT STUDIES; COLOSTRUM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; INCIDENCE; NEOSPORA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTOSIS;

EID: 14244254726     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-3372     Document Type: Article

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