Investigation of an outbreak of besnoitiosis in donkeys in northeastern Pennsylvania

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 240, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1329-1337

  Ness, SallyAnne L ^a   Peters Kennedy, Jeanine ^a   Schares, Gereon ^b   Dubey, Jitender P ^c   Mittel, Linda D ^a   Mohammed, Hussni O ^a   Bowman, Dwight D ^a   Felippe, M Julia B ^a   Wade, Susan E ^a   Shultz, Nicole ^a   Divers, Thomas J ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; COCCIDIA; COCCIDIOSIS; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HORSE; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; NOSE CAVITY; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCLERA; SKIN; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; COCCIDIOSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EQUIDAE; FEMALE; MALE; NASAL CAVITY; PENNSYLVANIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARCOCYSTIDAE; SCLERA; SKIN;

ANIMALIA; BESNOITIA; EQUUS ASINUS;

EID: 84861475361     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.240.11.1329     Document Type: Article

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