Evaluation of cattle inoculated with Babesia bovis clones adhesive in vitro to bovine brain endothelial cells

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1081, Issue , 2006, Pages 397-404

  Canto, Germinal J ^a   Figueroa, Julio V ^a   Ramos, Juan A ^a   Rojas, Edmundo E ^a   Garcia Tapia, David ^a,b   Alvarez, J Antonio ^a   Allred, David R ^c   Carson, Charles A ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES FORESTALES   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Babesia bovis; In vitro adhesive clones; In vivo assessment

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; BABESIA BOVIS; BRAIN; CATTLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ERYTHROCYTE; HEMATOCRIT; IN VITRO STUDY; INOCULATION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PHENOTYPE; RANDOMIZATION; RECTUM TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALIA; BABESIA; BABESIA BOVIS; BOS TAURUS;

EID: 33845714934     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1373.058     Document Type: Conference Paper

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