Prevalence of the causative agents of equine piroplasmosis in the South West of The Netherlands and the identification of two autochthonous clinical Theileria equi infections

Veterinary Journal

Volumn 193, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 381-385

  Butler, Catherine M ^a   Sloet van Oldruitenborgh Oosterbaan, Marianne M ^a   Stout, Tom A E ^a,b   van der Kolk, Johannus H ^a   van den Wollenberg, Linda ^c   Nielen, Mirjam ^a   Jongejan, Frans ^a,b   Werners, Arno H ^a   Houwers, Dirk J ^d  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c DAP Bodegraven ^*  (Netherlands)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Babesia caballi; Horse; PCR RLB; Piroplasmosis; Theileria equi

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BABESIA CABALLI; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD SMEAR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA DETERMINATION; EQUINE PIROPLASMOSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; THEILERIA EQUI;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTIONS; AZURE STAINS; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MALE; NETHERLANDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; THEILERIA; THEILERIASIS;

BABESIA CABALLI; EQUIDAE; THEILERIA EQUI;

EID: 84865860446     PISSN: 10900233     EISSN: 15322971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tvjl.2011.12.014     Document Type: Article

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