Asymptomatic Endemic Chlamydia pecorum Infections Reduce Growth Rates in Calves by up to 48 Percent

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Poudel, Anil ^a   Elsasser, Theodore H ^b   Rahman, Kh Shamsur ^a   Chowdhury, Erfan U ^a   Kaltenboeck, Bernhard ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BACTERIAL RNA; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; GLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; RNA 23S; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BLOOD SAMPLING; CATTLE DISEASE; CHLAMYDIA PECORUM; CHLAMYDIASIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONJUNCTIVA DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENOTYPE; GROWTH INHIBITION; GROWTH RATE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LIVER INJURY; LIVESTOCK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OMPA GENE; PERINATAL PERIOD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SOMATOMEDIN C BLOOD LEVEL; VAGINA; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTIONS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GROWTH CHARTS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; WEIGHT GAIN;

BOS; BOVINAE; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIAE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PECORUM;

EID: 84866395120     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044961     Document Type: Article

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