Natural breeding with bulls experimentally infected with Neospora caninum failed to induce seroconversion in dams

Theriogenology

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 639-642

  Osoro, K ^a   Ortega Mora, L M ^b   Martinez A ^a   Serrano Martinez E ^b   Ferre, I ^b  

^a Servicio Regional de Investigación y Desarrollo Agroalimentario de Asturias   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cattle; Neospora caninum; Venereal transmission

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BREEDING; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; COCCIDIOSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; NEOSPORA; PARASITOLOGY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BREEDING; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; FEMALE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; NEOSPORA; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOVINAE; NEOSPORA CANINUM;

EID: 58249142607     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2008.09.035     Document Type: Article

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