Epidemiological investigations of abortions due to Neospora caninum on Swiss dairy farms.

Hässig, M; Gottstein, Bruno (2002). Epidemiological investigations of abortions due to Neospora caninum on Swiss dairy farms. Veterinary record, 150(17), pp. 538-542. British Veterinary Association

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Abortions apparently due to Neospora caninum in two Swiss dairy herds were investigated by means of a PCR and ELISA, and other potential causes were eliminated. In addition, a case-control study of 24 case herds and 24 control herds indicated that N caninum-associated abortions were more likely to occur in herds with antibodies to Coxiella burnetii (with an odds ratio [OR] of 3.38 with a 95 per cent confidence interval [CI] of 1.82 to 6.22), whereas the likelihood was less in herds with antibodies to Leptospira species (OR 0.34,95 per cent CI 0.13 to 0.75), or in herds with antibodies to bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD) virus (OR 0.75,95 per cent CI 0.56 to 1.00), or Chlamydia psittaci (OR 0.18,95 per cent CI 0.09 to 0.35), or in herds in which BVD virus had been isolated from an aborted fetus (OR 0.11,95 per cent CI 0.02 to 0-58).

Item Type:	Journal Article (Original Article)
Division/Institute:	05 Veterinary Medicine > Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathobiology (DIP) > Institute of Parasitology
UniBE Contributor:	Gottstein, Bruno
Subjects:	600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health 600 Technology > 630 Agriculture
ISSN:	0042-4900
Publisher:	British Veterinary Association
Language:	English
Submitter:	Bruno Gottstein
Date Deposited:	19 Jul 2018 16:16
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 15:16
PubMed ID:	12019533
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/118810