Intrauterine Neospora caninum inoculation of heifers and cows using contaminated semen with different numbers of tachyzoites

Theriogenology

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 729-737

  Serrano Martinez E ^a   Ferre, I ^a   Osoro, K ^b   Aduriz, G ^c   Mota, R A ^a   Martinez A ^b   del Pozo, I ^c   Hidalgo, C O ^b   Ortega Mora, L M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b Servicio Regional de Investigación y Desarrollo Agroalimentario de Asturias   (Spain)

^c NEIKER and a Vaccine producing Commercial Company CZVSL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cows; Heifers; Infectious dose; Intrauterine inoculation; Neospora caninum; Semen; Transmission

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; COCCIDIOSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; NEOSPORA; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY RATE; SPERM; TIME; UTERUS DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; INTERFERON TYPE II; NEOSPORA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PREGNANCY RATE; SEMEN; TIME FACTORS; UTERINE DISEASES;

ANIMALIA; NEOSPORA; NEOSPORA CANINUM;

EID: 33846550127     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2006.10.004     Document Type: Article

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