Investigation of Neospora caninum, Hammondia sp., and Toxoplasma gondii in tissues from slaughtered beef cattle in Bahia, Brazil

Parasitology Research

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 457-461

  Santos, Sara Lima ^a   De Souza Costa, Kattyanne ^a   Gondim, Leane Queiroz ^a   Da Silva, Mariana Sampaio Anares ^a   Uzêda, Rosângela Soares ^a   Abe Sandes, Kiyoko ^b   Gondim, Luís Fernando Pita ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DA BAHIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIBODY; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEEF CATTLE; BRAIN; BRAZIL; CATTLE DISEASE; COCCIDIA; COCCIDIOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAMMONDIA; HEART; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NEOSPOROSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BLOOD; CATTLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; NEOSPORA; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; TOXOPLASMA;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOVINAE; COCCIDIA; HAMMONDIA; HAMMONDIA HEYDORNI; NEOSPORA CANINUM; OVIS ARIES; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BRAIN; BRAZIL; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HEART; HUMANS; NEOSPORA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SARCOCYSTIDAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

EID: 77949333590     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-009-1686-4     Document Type: Article

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