On the efficacy and safety of vaccination with live tachyzoites of Neospora caninum for prevention of Neospora-associated fetal loss in cattle

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 99-105

  Weber, Fred H ^a   Jackson, James A ^a   Sobecki, Brian ^a   Choromanski, Les ^a   Olsen, Mary ^a   Meinert, Todd ^a   Frank, Rodney ^a   Reichel, Michael P ^b,c   Ellis, John T ^b  

^a PFIZER INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; LIVE VACCINE; NEOGUARD; NEOSPOROSIS VACCINE; PLACEBO; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL VACCINE; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS WASTAGE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; MOUSE; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NEOSPOROSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TACHYZOITE; VETERINARY ABORTION;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; NEOSPORA; PREGNANCY; PROTOZOAN VACCINES; VACCINATION;

EID: 84872245974     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00225-12     Document Type: Article

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