Humoral immune reaction of newborn calves congenitally infected with Neospora caninum and experimentally treated with toltrazuril

Parasitology Research

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 534-540

  Haerdi, Corinne ^a   Haessig, Michael ^a   Sager, Heinz ^b   Greif, Gisela ^c   Staubli, Daniela ^b   Gottstein, Bruno ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c BAYER PHARMA AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOLTRAZURIL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONGENITAL INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; TOXOPLASMA;

ABORTION, VETERINARY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BODY WEIGHT; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; COCCIDIOSIS; COCCIDIOSTATS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; NEOSPORA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TRIAZINES;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; NEOSPORA; NEOSPORA CANINUM;

EID: 33748358337     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-006-0199-7     Document Type: Article

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