The key components of resistance to Ostertagia circumcincta in lambs

Parasitology Today

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 438-441

  Stear, Mike ^a   Park, Michael ^a   Bishop, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A;

HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LAMB; NONHUMAN; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALIA; OSTERTAGIA; OVIS ARIES; TELADORSAGIA CIRCUMCINCTA;

EID: 0030296618     PISSN: 01694758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0169-4758(96)10069-7     Document Type: Article

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