Competitive exclusion between piroplasmosis and anaplasmosis agents within cattle

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 0002-0005

  Dib, Loubna ^a   Bitam, Idir ^b   Tahri, Maja ^c   Bensouilah, Mourad ^c   De Meeûs, Thierry ^d  

^a University of El Tarf   (Algeria)

^b Institut Pasteur d'Algerie   (Algeria)

^c BADJI MOKHTAR UNIVERSITY   (Algeria)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGERIA; ANAPLASMA MARGINALE; ANAPLASMOSIS; APICOMPLEXA; BABESIA BOVIS; CATTLE DISEASE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PHENOTYPE; PIROPLASMOSIS; PREVALENCE; THEILERIA ANNULATA; THEILERIA ORIENTALIS; ANAPLASMA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; CATTLE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BOS;

ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANIMALS; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS;

EID: 38949188712     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.0040007     Document Type: Note

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