Experimental ruminant models for bovine neosporosis: What is known and what is needed

Parasitology

Volumn 141, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1471-1488

  Benavides, Julio ^a   Collantes Fernández, Esther ^b   Ferre, Ignacio ^b   Pérez, Valentín ^a   Campero, Carlos ^c   Mota, Rinaldo ^d   Innes, Elisabeth ^e   Ortega Mora, Luis M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^e MOREDUN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bovine neosporosis; Harmonization; Knowledge gaps; Ruminant models

Indexed keywords

VACCINE;

ABORTION; BEEF CATTLE; BOVIDS; BREED; CONFERENCE PAPER; DAIRY CATTLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INOCULATION; NEOSPOROSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TACHYZOITE; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; CATTLE; CATTLE BREED; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; NEOSPORA CANINUM; PATHOGENESIS; REVIEW; SEROPREVALENCE; STANDARDIZATION; ABORTION, VETERINARY; ANIMAL; BOVINAE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; NEOSPORA; PARASITOLOGY; VACCINATION; VETERINARY;

BOVINAE;

ABORTION, VETERINARY; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; NEOSPORA; PREGNANCY; RUMINANTS; VACCINATION;

EID: 84906790485     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182014000638     Document Type: Conference Paper

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