Relationship between rainfall and Neospora caninum-associated abortion in two dairy herds in a dry environment

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

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 147-152

  Lopez Gatius F ^a   Garcia Ispierto I ^b   Santolaria, P ^c   Yaniz J L ^c   Lopez Bejar M ^b   Nogareda, C ^a   Almeria S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY; RAIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; COCCIDIOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; NEOSPORA; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTOR; SPAIN; SPERM; VETERINARY ABORTION;

ABORTION, VETERINARY; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; FEMALE; NEOSPORA; PREGNANCY; RAIN; RISK FACTORS; SEMEN; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SPAIN;

ANIMALIA; FRIESIA; NEOSPORA CANINUM;

EID: 18944378252     PISSN: 09311793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0450.2005.00831.x     Document Type: Article

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