The impact of co-infections on the haematological profile of East African Short-horn Zebu calves

Parasitology

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 374-388

  Van Wyk, Ilana Conradie ^a   Goddard, Amelia ^a   De C Bronsvoort, B Mark ^b   Coetzer, Jacobus A A W ^a   Handel, Ian G ^b   Hanotte, Olivier ^c   Jennings, Amy ^b   Lesosky, Maia ^a,d   Kiara, Henry ^e   Thumbi, Sam M ^f   Toye, Phil ^e   Woolhouse, Mark W ^f   Penzhorn, Banie L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^e INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calves; Co infections; Packed cell volume; Platelets; White blood cell count; Zebu

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BABESIA; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; COINFECTION; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HEMATOCRIT; KENYA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; NEMATODA; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL; PLATELET COUNT; THEILERIA; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; TICKS; TRYPANOSOMA;

ANAPLASMA MARGINALE; ANAPLASMOSIS; ARTICLE; BABESIA BIGEMINA; BLOODBORNE BACTERIUM; CATTLE DISEASE; COCCIDIA; COCCIDIAL INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAST AFRICAN; EAST COAST FEVER; FASCIOLA GIGANTICA; FASCIOLA GIGANTICA INFECTION; HEMATOCRIT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIXED INFECTION; NAGANA; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PATHOGEN LOAD; PATHOGENESIS; PIROPLASMOSIS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION; SEROCONVERSION; STRONGYLE INFECTION; STRONGYLOIDEA; THEILERIA MUTANS; THEILERIA MUTANS INFECTION; THEILERIA PARVA; THEILERIOSIS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TRYPANOSOMA VIVAX; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

BOS INDICUS;

EID: 84894521773     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182013001625     Document Type: Article

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