Experimental infection with a low virulence isolate of Neospora caninum at 70 days gestation in cattle did not result in foetopathy

Veterinary Research

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Rojo Montejo, Silvia ^a   Collantes Fernández, Esther ^a   Blanco Murcia, Javier ^a   Rodríguez Bertos, Antonio ^a   Risco Castillo, Verónica ^a   Ortega Mora, Luis Miguel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cattle; Foetopathy; Low virulence isolate; Nc Spain 1H; Neospora caninum

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PHOSPHATE BUFFERED SALINE; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE MODEL; DNA DETERMINATION; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; FETUS OUTCOME; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEIFER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INOCULATION; MARE; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NEOSPOROSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PARASITEMIA; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; TACHYZOITE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BLOOD; CATTLE DISEASE; COCCIDIOSIS; GENETICS; NEOSPORA; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOVINAE; NEOSPORA CANINUM;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTERFERON-GAMMA; NEOSPORA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; VIRULENCE;

EID: 67650989224     PISSN: 09284249     EISSN: 12979716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/vetres/2009032     Document Type: Article

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