Tissue distribution of neospora caninum in experimentally infected cattle

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 309-312

  Nishimura, Maki ^a   Kohara, Junko ^b   Hiasa, Jun ^a   Muroi, Yoshikage ^a   Yokoyama, Naoaki ^a   Kida, Katsuya ^a   Xuan, Xuenan ^a   Furuoka, Hidefumi ^a   Nishikawa, Yoshifumi ^a  

^a OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO RESEARCH ORGANIZATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN TISSUE; CALF (BOVINE); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DIENCEPHALON; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NEOSPOROSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; CORPUS STRIATUM; DIENCEPHALON; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NEOSPORA; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84874835017     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00556-12     Document Type: Article

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