Frequency of horizontal and vertical transmission for Sarcocystis cruzi and Neospora caninum in dairy cattle

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 160, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 51-54

  More G ^a,b   Bacigalupe, D ^a   Basso, W ^a,b   Rambeaud, M ^a,b   Beltrame, F ^c   Ramirez, B ^c   Venturini, M C ^a   Venturini, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^c MTsur ^*  (Argentina)

Author keywords

Dairy cattle; Horizontal transmission; IFAT; Neospora caninum; Sarcocystis cruzi; Vertical transmission

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BREEDING; COLOSTRUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; DAIRY CATTLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; MALE; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NONHUMAN; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTIS CRUZI; SEROCONVERSION; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CATTLE; COCCIDIOSIS; FEMALE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; NEOSPORA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTOSIS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

BOS; NEOSPORA CANINUM; SARCOCYSTIS CRUZI;

EID: 59649111089     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2008.10.081     Document Type: Article

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