Babesia bigemina: Attenuation of an Uzbek isolate for immunization of cattle with live calf- or culture-derived parasites

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 146, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 221-226

  Shkap, Varda ^a   Rasulov, I ^b   Abdurasulov, S ^b   Fish, L ^a   Leibovitz, B ^a   Krigel, Y ^a   Molad, T ^a   Mazuz, M L ^a   Savitsky, I ^a  

^a KIMRON VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Israel)

^b Institute of Zoology Tashkent Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences   (Uzbekistan)

Author keywords

Autochthonous; Babesia bigemina; Calf derived; Central Asia; Culture derived; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BABESIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; IMMUNIZATION; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VIRULENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; UZBEKISTAN;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; CATTLE; IMMUNIZATION; MALE; PROTOZOAN VACCINES; UZBEKISTAN; VIRULENCE;

BABESIA BIGEMINA; BOOPHILUS ANNULATUS; BOS; IXODIDA;

EID: 34247391565     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2007.02.018     Document Type: Article

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