Serological response of cats to experimental besnoitia darlingi and besnoitia neotomofelis infections and prevalence of antibodies to these parasites in cats from Virginia and Pennsylvania

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 259-261

  Houk, Alice E ^a   Rosypal, Alexa C ^b   Grant, David C ^a   Dubey, J P ^c   Zajac, Anne M ^a   Yabsley, Michael J ^d   Lindsay, David S ^a  

^a VIRGINIA MARYLAND REGIONAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY; DOMESTIC SPECIES; EUKARYOTE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FELID; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITIC DISEASE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY TITER; APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; BESNOITIA DARLINGI; BESNOITIA NEOTOMOFELIS; BESNOITIOSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; SEROPREVALENCE; TACHYZOITE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CAT DISEASES; CATS; CELL LINE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COCCIDIOSIS; CROSS REACTIONS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMANS; MICE; PENNSYLVANIA; SARCOCYSTIDAE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; VIRGINIA;

PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

BESNOITIA; BESNOITIA DARLINGI; DIDELPHIDAE; DIDELPHIS VIRGINIANA; FELIS CATUS; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NEOTOMA; NEOTOMA MICROPUS; SARCOCYSTIS NEURONA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 79955593600     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: 19372345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-2626.1     Document Type: Article

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