Cellular immune responses in cattle experimentally infected with Neospora caninum

Parasite Immunology

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 519-526

  Lundén, Anna ^a,b   Marks, Joanne ^a   Maley, Stephen W ^a   Innes, Elisabeth A ^a  

^a MOREDUN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cattle; Cell mediated immunity; Neospora caninum

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON;

ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IMMUNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROCONVERSION; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; FEMALE; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; INTERFERON TYPE II; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; NEOSPORA;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; NEOSPORA CANINUM; PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0031796977     PISSN: 01419838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3024.1998.00184.x     Document Type: Article

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