Comparative efficacy of immunization with inactivated whole tachyzoites versus a tachyzoite-bradyzoite mixture against neosporosis in mice

Parasitology

Volumn 138, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1372-1383

  Rojo Montejo, S ^a   Collantes Fernandez E ^a   Rodriguez Marcos S ^a   Perez Zaballos F ^a   Lopez Perez I ^a   Prenafeta, A ^b   Ortega Mora, L M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b LABORATORIOS HIPRA S A   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bradyzoite; Inactivated vaccine; Mice; Neospora caninum; Tachyzoite

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; GINSENG EXTRACT; INACTIVATED VACCINE; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRADYZOITE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONGENITAL INFECTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EMULSION; FEMALE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNIZATION; MOUSE; NEOSPOROSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TACHYZOITE; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CATTLE; COCCIDIOSIS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; IMMUNITY, HUMORAL; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; INTERFERON-GAMMA; INTERLEUKIN-4; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NEOSPORA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PROTOZOAN VACCINES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; VACCINES, INACTIVATED;

MUS; NEOSPORA CANINUM; PANAX GINSENG;

EID: 80053061033     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182011001156     Document Type: Article

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