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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Vet. Sci.
Sec. Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics
Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fvets.2025.1502742
This article is part of the Research Topic Economic Impact of Infections on the Farm Industry View all 3 articles
Estimation of direct economic and productive losses due to abortions caused by Neospora caninum in the primary dairy sector of Uruguay
Provisionally accepted
Miguel Felipe Carrillo Parraguez 1,2*
Eduardo Ponssa 3*
Rubén Darío Caffarena 1,4 Jorge Artagaveytia 5 Fernando Sotelo 6 Santiago Rafael Fariña 7
Alejandro Mendoza 7*
Federico Giannitti 1*- 1 Plataforma de Investigación en Salud Animal, Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (INIA), Estación Experimental La Estanzuela, Colonia, Uruguay
- 2 Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria, Facultad de Ciencias de la Vida, Universidad Andrés Bello, Concepción, Chile
- 3 Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad Nacional del Centro de Buenos Aires., Tandil, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- 4 Unidad Académica Salud de los Rumiantes, Departamento de Producción Animal, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
- 5 Instituto Nacional de la Leche (INALE), Montevideo, Uruguay
- 6 Instituto Nacional para el Mejoramiento Lechero (MU), Montevideo, Uruguay
- 7 Sistema Lechero, Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (INIA), Estación Experimental La Estanzuela, Colonia, Uruguay
Please see new edits to the abstract in the MS word file submitted for Revision 1.
Keywords: Abortion, Bovine neosporosis, Dairy production, Economic losses, Lost profits, Uruguay
Received: 27 Sep 2024; Accepted: 04 Mar 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Carrillo Parraguez, Ponssa, Caffarena, Artagaveytia, Sotelo, Fariña, Mendoza and Giannitti. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Miguel Felipe Carrillo Parraguez, Plataforma de Investigación en Salud Animal, Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (INIA), Estación Experimental La Estanzuela, Colonia, Uruguay
Eduardo Ponssa, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad Nacional del Centro de Buenos Aires., Tandil, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Alejandro Mendoza, Sistema Lechero, Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (INIA), Estación Experimental La Estanzuela, Colonia, Uruguay
Federico Giannitti, Plataforma de Investigación en Salud Animal, Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (INIA), Estación Experimental La Estanzuela, Colonia, Uruguay
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