Experimental neosporosis in bulls: Parasite detection in semen and blood and specific antibody and interferon-gamma responses

Theriogenology

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1175-1184

  Serrano Martinez E ^a   Ferre, I ^a   Martinez A ^b   Osoro, K ^b   Mateos Sanz, A ^a   del Pozo, I ^c   Aduriz, G ^c   Tamargo, C ^b   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

Bull; Experimental infection; Immune response; Neospora caninum; Semen

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BLOOD; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; COCCIDIOSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MOUSE; NEOSPORA; NUDE MOUSE; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOLOGY; SPERM;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY FORMATION; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; INTERFERON TYPE II; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; NEOSPORA; PARASITEMIA; SEMEN;

MUS; NEOSPORA CANINUM;

EID: 33847732633     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2007.01.010     Document Type: Article

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