Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum seroprevalence in dairy sheep and goats mixed stock farming

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 198, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 387-390

  Anastasia, Diakou ^a   Elias, Papadopoulos ^a   Nikolaos, Panousis ^a   Charilaos, Karatzias ^a   Nektarios, Giadinis ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Goats; Mixed flocks; Neospora; Seroprevalence; Sheep; Toxoplasma

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BOVIDS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GOAT; GRAZING; GREECE; HERD; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NEOSPOROSIS; NONHUMAN; SEROPREVALENCE; SHEEP; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALIA; CAPRA HIRCUS; NEOSPORA; NEOSPORA CANINUM; OVIS ARIES; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

GOATS; MIXED FLOCKS; NEOSPORA; SEROPREVALENCE; SHEEP; TOXOPLASMA;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; COCCIDIOSIS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; GREECE; NEOSPORA; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

EID: 84888440159     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2013.09.017     Document Type: Article

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