Quails are resistant to infection with Neospora caninum tachyzoites

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 198, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 209-213

  Oliveira, Uillians Volkart de ^a   de Magalhães, Vanessa Carvalho Sampaio ^b   Almeida, Clebson Pereira ^b   Santos, Ivanildo dos Anjos ^b   Mota, Danielle Andrade ^b   Macêdo, Ludimila Santos ^b   Silva, Fabiana Lessa ^b   Carvalho, Fábio dos Santos ^b   Wenceslau, Amauri Arias ^b   Munhoz, Alexandre Dias ^b  

^a Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Aplicadas FACISA   (Brazil)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE CIÊNCIAS BIOLÓGICAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Birds; Dogs; Neospora caninum; Quails

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTURNIX JAPONICA; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEPATOMEGALY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFECTION RESISTANCE; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NEOSPOROSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; ORGAN WEIGHT; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLENOMEGALY; TACHYZOITE; WEIGHT GAIN; ZOONOSIS;

AVES; CANIS FAMILIARIS; COTURNIX JAPONICA; NEOSPORA CANINUM; PHASIANIDAE;

BIRDS; DOGS; NEOSPORA CANINUM; QUAILS;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; COTURNIX; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DOGS; FECES; FEMALE; NEOSPORA;

EID: 84885481848     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2013.08.009     Document Type: Article

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