Comparison of different direct diagnostic methods to identify Babesia bovis and Babesia bigemina in animals vaccinated with live attenuated parasites

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 139, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 231-236

  Costa Júnior, Livio Martins ^a   Rabelo, Élida Mara Leite ^a   Martins, Olindo Assis ^b   Ribeiro, Múcio Flávio Barbosa ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Babesia bigemina; Babesia bovis; Diagnosis; Live vaccine; nPCR

Indexed keywords

LIVE VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BABESIA; BLOOD SMEAR; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNIZATION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PARASITOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VACCINATION;

ANIMALS; BABESIA; BABESIA BOVIS; BABESIOSIS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; ERYTHROCYTES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MALE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN VACCINES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VACCINES, ATTENUATED;

ANIMALIA; BABESIA; BABESIA BIGEMINA; BABESIA BOVIS; BOS TAURUS;

EID: 33747118037     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2006.02.034     Document Type: Article

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