Detection of Neospora caninum in aborted bovine fetuses and dam blood samples by nested PCR and ELISA and seroprevalence in Beijing and Tianjin, China

Parasitology

Volumn 136, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1251-1256

  Yao, L ^a   Yang, N ^a   Liu, Q ^a   Wang, M ^a   Zhang, W ^a   Qian, W F ^a   Hu, Y F ^a   Ding, J ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Abortion; Bovine fetus; ELISA; Neospora caninum; Nested PCR

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRAIN; CATTLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW (MAMMAL); ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; HEART; HERD; KIDNEY; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NEOSPOROSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROPREVALENCE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ABORTED FETUS; ABORTION, VETERINARY; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CHINA; COCCIDIOSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOSPORA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

BOS; BOVINAE; NEOSPORA CANINUM;

EID: 70350573980     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182009990813     Document Type: Article

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