Brugia pahangi in cats: The passive transfer of anti-microfilarial immunity from immune to non-immune cats

Parasite Immunology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 79-86

  Medeiros, Filomena ^a   Baldwin, C I ^a   Denham, D A ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brugia pahangi; Cats; Circulating antigen; Microfilariae; Passive transfer of immunity

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; PARASITE ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRUGIA PAHANGI; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; BRUGIA PAHANGI; CATUS; FELIS CATUS;

EID: 0029996058     PISSN: 01419838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3024.1996.d01-50.x     Document Type: Article

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