Influence of Antibodies in Mother's Milk on Antigenic Variation of Giardia lamblia in the Murine Mother-Offspring Model of Infection

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1287-1292

  Stager S ^a   Gottstein, B ^a   Sager, H ^a   Jungi, T W ^a   Muller N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Institute of Parasitology   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; IMMUNOLOGY; INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH MOUSE; INTESTINE; MILK; MOUSE; PARASITOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; INTESTINES; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MILK; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

EID: 0032037592     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.4.1287-1292.1998     Document Type: Article

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