Neospora caninum DNA detection by TaqMan real-time PCR assay in experimentally infected pregnant heifers

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 199, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 129-135

  Pereira, Gabriel Ribas ^a   Vogel, Fernanda Silveira Flores ^a   Bohrer, Rodrigo Camponogara ^a   da Nóbrega, Janduí Escarião ^a   Ilha, Gustavo Freitas ^a   da Rosa, Paulo Roberto Antunes ^a   Glanzner, Werner Giehl ^a   Camillo, Giovana ^a   Braunig, Patricia ^a   de Oliveira, João Francisco Coelho ^a   Gonçalves, Paulo Bayard Dias ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA MARIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Abortion; Cattle; Neospora caninum; TaqMan real time PCR

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART MUSCLE; HEIFER; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TISSUE NECROSIS; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ANIMALIA; BOS; NEOSPORA CANINUM;

ABORTION; CATTLE; NEOSPORA CANINUM; TAQMAN REAL-TIME PCR;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; FETUS; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; NEOSPORA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84890549966     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2013.10.018     Document Type: Article

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