Longitudinal field study on bovine Babesia spp. and Anaplasma phagocytophilum infections during a grazing season in Belgium

Parasitology Research

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1525-1530

  Lempereur, Laetitia ^a,c   Lebrun, Maude ^b   Cuvelier, Pascale ^b   Sépult, Géraldine ^b   Caron, Yannick ^a   Saegerman, Claude ^a   Shiels, Brian ^c   Losson, Bertrand ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b Laboratory Animal Health   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; BELGIUM; COW; GRAZING; HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEROPREVALENCE; SPRING; SUMMER;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; BELGIUM; CATTLE; DEER; FEMALE; IXODES; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; SEASONS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; TICKS;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; BABESIA; BABESIA DIVERGENS; BABESIA SP.; BOS; BOVINAE; CERVIDAE; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA;

EID: 84863446859     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-011-2657-0     Document Type: Article

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