The use of beef bull semen reduced the risk of abortion in Neospora-seropositive dairy cows

Journal of Veterinary Medicine Series B: Infectious Diseases and Veterinary Public Health

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 88-92

  Lopez Gatius F ^a   Santolaria, P ^a,b   Yaniz J L ^a,b   Garbayo, J M ^a,c   Almeria S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^c Diputac General de Aragón ^*  (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; COCCIDIOSIS; DONOR; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; MALE; NEOSPORA; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RISK FACTOR; SEROLOGY; SPERM; VETERINARY ABORTION;

ABORTED FETUS; ABORTION, VETERINARY; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; FEMALE; MALE; NEOSPORA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; RISK FACTORS; SEMEN; SEROLOGIC TESTS; TISSUE DONORS;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; FRIESIA; NEOSPORA; NEOSPORA CANINUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 15944405367     PISSN: 09311793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0450.2004.00818.x     Document Type: Article

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