Experimental Coxiella burnetii Infection in Pregnant Goats: a Histopathological and Immunohistochemical Study

Journal of Comparative Pathology

Volumn 135, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 108-115

  Sanchez J ^a   Souriau, A ^c   Buendia A J ^a   Arricau Bouvery, N ^c   Martinez C M ^a   Salinas, J ^b   Rodolakis, A ^c   Navarro, J A ^a  

^a Departamento de Anatomía y Anatomía Patológica Comparadas   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

abortion; bacterial infection; Coxiella burnetii; goat; placenta; Q fever

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BREEDING; CHORIOALLANTOIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA BURNETII; DISEASE COURSE; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FEMALE; FETUS; GOAT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INOCULATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER INJURY; LUNG INJURY; MACROPHAGE; MESENCHYME; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PLACENTA DISORDER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; Q FEVER; T LYMPHOCYTE; TROPHOBLAST; UDDER; VASCULITIS; VETERINARY ABORTION;

ABORTED FETUS; ABORTION, INDUCED; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; CHORIOALLANTOIC MEMBRANE; COXIELLA BURNETII; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; LIVER; LUNG; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; Q FEVER; T-LYMPHOCYTES; VASCULITIS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAPRA HIRCUS; COXIELLA BURNETII;

EID: 33748871521     PISSN: 00219975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcpa.2006.06.003     Document Type: Article

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