Fetal death in cows experimentally infected with Neospora caninum at 110 days of gestation

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 169, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 304-311

  Almeria S ^a   Araujo, R ^b   Tuo, W ^b   López Gatius, F ^c   Dubey, J P ^b   Gasbarre, L C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cattle; Experimental; Fetopathy; Late pregnancy; Neospora caninum

Indexed keywords

DNA; GAMMA INTERFERON;

ABORTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CATTLE DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RESPONSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; GESTATIONAL AGE; INOCULATION; MARE; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NEOSPOROSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PARASITE LOCALIZATION; PARASITEMIA; PATHOGENESIS; PLACENTA DISORDER; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; TACHYZOITE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; FETAL DISEASES; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; INTERFERON-GAMMA; NEOSPORA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS;

ANIMALIA; BOS; NEOSPORA CANINUM;

EID: 77951258554     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2009.12.044     Document Type: Article

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