Natural postnatal Neospora caninum infection in cattle can persist and lead to endogenous transplacental infection

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 152, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 220-225

  Dijkstra, Th ^a   Lam, T J G M ^a   Bartels, C J M ^a   Eysker, M ^b   Wouda, W ^a  

^a GD ANIMAL HEALTH   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cattle; Neospora caninum; Persistent infection; Postnatal infection; Transplacental transmission

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAPLOTYPE; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITOSIS; PERINATAL PERIOD; SEROCONVERSION; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; NEOSPORA; NETHERLANDS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

ANIMALIA; BOS; NEOSPORA CANINUM;

EID: 40249105781     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2007.12.034     Document Type: Article

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