Vaccines against neosporosis: What can we learn from the past studies?

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 52-70

  Monney, Thierry ^a   Hemphill, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Animal model; Antigen; Apicomplexa; Immune response; Neospora caninum; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

LIVE VACCINE; PROTOZOAL VACCINE;

CATTLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROL STRATEGY; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DRUG SAFETY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NEOSPOROSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TARGETING; PROTIST LIFE CYCLE STAGE; REVIEW; TARGET CELL; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALIA; APICOMPLEXA; BOS; BOVINAE; CANIDAE; GERBILLINAE; MUS; NEOSPORA CANINUM; OVIS ARIES;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN; APICOMPLEXA; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NEOSPORA CANINUM; VACCINE;

ABORTION, VETERINARY; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MICE; NEOSPORA; PROTOZOAN VACCINES;

EID: 84899123083     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2014.02.015     Document Type: Review

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