Neospora-associated abortion episode over a 1-year period in a dairy herd in north-east Spain

Journal of Veterinary Medicine Series B: Infectious Diseases and Veterinary Public Health

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 348-352

  Lopez Gatius F ^a   Lopez Bejar M ^a,b   Murugavel, K ^a   Pabon M ^a,b   Ferrer, D ^a,b   Almeria S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; COCCIDIOSIS; DAIRYING; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NEOSPORA; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPAIN; VETERINARY ABORTION;

ABORTION, VETERINARY; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; DAIRYING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; NEOSPORA; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SPAIN;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; NEOSPORA; NEOSPORA CANINUM;

EID: 8844231796     PISSN: 09311793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0450.2004.00779.x     Document Type: Article

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