Experimental infection of cattle with a feline isolate of Tritrichomonas foetus

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1429-1434

  Stockdale, Heather ^a   Rodning, Soren ^a   Givens, Maurice ^a   Carpenter, David ^a   Lenz, Stephen ^a,b   Spencer, Jennifer ^a   Dykstra, Christine ^a   Lindsay, David ^c   Blagburn, Byron ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA MARYLAND REGIONAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATTLE; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE; PROTOZOAN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CAT; CATTLE DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEIFER; INOCULATION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; TRICHOMONAS FOETUS; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; UTERUS BIOPSY; VAGINA SMEAR;

ANIMALS; BIOPSY; CAT DISEASES; CATS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CERVIX MUCUS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TRITRICHOMONAS FOETUS; UTERUS; VAGINA;

BOS; BOVINAE; FELIDAE; TRICHOMONADIDA; TRITRICHOMONAS FOETUS;

EID: 38849201161     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1305.1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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