Evidence that primary infection of Charollais sheep with Toxoplasma gondii may not prevent foetal infection and abortion in subsequent lambings

Parasitology

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 169-173

  Morley, E K ^a   Williams, R H ^a   Hughes, J M ^a   Thomasson, D ^a   Terry, R S ^b   Duncanson, P ^a   Smith, J E ^b   Hide, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Congenital infection; Ovine pregnancy; PCR; Successive abortion; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HERD; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; LIVE BIRTH; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IMMUNITY; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RISK FACTOR; SHEEP; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ABORTION, VETERINARY; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

OVIS; OVIS ARIES; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 38549162056     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182007003721     Document Type: Article

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