Protecting babies: Vaccine strategies to prevent foetopathy in Neospora caninum-infected cattle

Parasite Immunology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 61-67

  Williams, D J L ^a   Trees, A J ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abortion; Cattle; Immune response; Interferon gamma; Neospora caninum; Vaccines

Indexed keywords

DNA VACCINE; EPITHELIAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; NEOSPORA CANINUM VACCINE; PROTOZOAL VACCINE; RECOMBINANT ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; CATTLE DISEASE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; EMBRYOTOXICITY; FETUS DEATH; FETUS DISEASE; GESTATIONAL AGE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INNATE IMMUNITY; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; REVIEW; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; UPREGULATION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CATTLE; COCCIDIOSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; FETUS; IMMUNOLOGY; NEOSPORA; NEWBORN; PARASITOLOGY; PREGNANCY; VETERINARY ABORTION;

BOS TAURUS; CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA ABORTUS; NEOSPORA CANINUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ABORTION, VETERINARY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; FETUS; NEOSPORA; PREGNANCY; PROTOZOAN VACCINES;

EID: 33645093214     PISSN: 01419838     EISSN: 13653024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3024.2005.00809.x     Document Type: Review

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