Neospora caninum immunoblotting improves serodiagnosis of bovine neosporosis

Parasitology Research

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 648-658

  Staubli, Daniela ^a   Nunez, Sandra ^a   Sager, Heinz ^a   Schares, Gereon ^b   Gottstein, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ABORTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NEOSPOROSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STAINING; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ABORTION, VETERINARY; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NEOSPORA; PREGNANCY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; NEOSPORA; NEOSPORA CANINUM; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 33749452155     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-006-0207-y     Document Type: Article

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