Search for Neospora caninum-DNA by PCR in bull semen;Untersuchung von bovinem sperma auf Neospora caninum-DNA mittels PCR

Schweizer Archiv fur Tierheilkunde

Volumn 148, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 483-489

  Staubli, D ^a   Iten, C ^b   Kneubuhler J ^b   Sager, H ^a   Muller N ^a   Gottstein, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Logistikzentrum ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bull; Neospora caninum; PCR; Semen

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; COCCIDIOSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEOSPORA; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; SPERM; VETERINARY ABORTION;

ABORTION, VETERINARY; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; MALE; NEOSPORA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; SEMEN;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; NEOSPORA; NEOSPORA CANINUM;

EID: 33748943020     PISSN: 00367281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024/0036-7281.148.9.483     Document Type: Article

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