The effect of immunization of sheep with drug-abbreviated infections of Trichostrongylus colubriformis on in vitro lymphocyte blastogenic responses

Acta Parasitologica

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 97-102

  Cabaj, Władysław ^a,b   Stankiewicz, Mirosław ^a   Jonas, Warren E ^a   Pernthaner, Anton ^a   Lawrence, Steve ^a  

^a AGRESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b W STEFA SKI INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Poland)

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