Dynamics of Besnoitia besnoiti infection in cattle

Parasitology

Volumn 141, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1419-1435

  Alvarez Garcia G ^a   Garcia Lunar P ^a   Gutierrez Exposito D ^a   Shkap, V ^b   Ortega Mora, L M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b KIMRON VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Anasarca; Besnoitia besnoiti; Cattle; Parasite host dependent factors; Pathogenesis; Scleroderma

Indexed keywords

CORTISONE; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

APTITUDE; BESNOITIOSIS; BREED; CATTLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CYST; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEVER; HOST; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INOCULATION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLERODERMA; SEX; TACHYZOITE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BOVINAE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIA; COCCIDIOSIS; FEMALE; GENETICS; HOST RANGE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; HOST SPECIFICITY; MALE; SARCOCYSTIDAE;

EID: 84906789845     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182014000729     Document Type: Conference Paper

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