Vaccines against a major cause of abortion in cattle, Neospora caninum infection

Animals

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 306-325

  Monney, Thierry ^a   Debache, Karim ^a   Hemphill, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Abortion; DNA vaccine; Host cell interaction; Live vaccine; Neospora caninum; Recombinant antigen; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861657429     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20762615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ani1030306     Document Type: Review

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