Comparative study on responses of cattle and water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) to experimental inoculation of Brucella abortus biovar 1 by the intraconjunctival route-a preliminary report

Tropical Animal Health and Production

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1685-1694

  Adesiyun, Abiodun A ^a   Fosgate, Geoff T ^b   Persad, Anil ^a   Campbell, Mervyn ^a   Seebaransingh, Ravi ^a   Stewart Johnson, Alva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brucella abortus; Cattle; Intraconjunctival; Susceptibility; Water buffalo

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLOSIS; BUFFALO; CATTLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONJUNCTIVA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; LYMPH NODE; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; SEROLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLOSIS, BOVINE; BUFFALOES; CATTLE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CONJUNCTIVA; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; LYMPH NODES; MALE; SEROLOGIC TESTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS BIOVAR ABORTUS; BUBALUS; BUBALUS BUBALIS;

EID: 78049355405     PISSN: 00494747     EISSN: 15737438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11250-010-9621-3     Document Type: Article

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