Prevalence and transmission of Neospora caninum within infected Swedish dairy herds

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 128, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 209-218

  Frössling, Jenny ^a,b   Uggla, Arvid ^a   Björkman, Camilla ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Avidity; Cattle; Genealogic trees; Horizontal; Iscom ELISA; Neospora caninum; Vertical

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRY CATTLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENEALOGY; HERD IMMUNITY; INFECTION CONTROL; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; REINFECTION; SEROPREVALENCE; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

BOS TAURUS; NEOSPORA CANINUM;

EID: 14644433633     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2004.12.006     Document Type: Article

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