A review on bovine besnoitiosis: A disease with economic impact in herd health management, caused by Besnoitia besnoiti (Franco and Borges, )

Parasitology

Volumn 141, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1406-1417

  Cortes, Helder ^a   Leitão, Alexandre ^b   Gottstein, Bruno ^c   Hemphill, Andrew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^b FACULDADE DE MEDICINA VETERINÁRIA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Apicomplexa; Besnoitia besnoiti; Bovine besnoitiosis; Chemotherapy; Diagnosis; Vaccines

Indexed keywords

LIVE VACCINE; OXYTETRACYCLINE; PROTOZOAL VACCINE;

APICOMPLEXA; BESNOITIA BESNOITI; BESNOITIOSIS; BOVINE BESNOITIOSIS; CATTLE DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DAIRY CATTLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; GENUS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; BOVINAE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIA; COCCIDIOSIS; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MALE; PROTOZOAN VACCINES; SARCOCYSTIDAE;

EID: 84906329983     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182014000262     Document Type: Conference Paper

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