Serum and skin surface antibodies and their associations with sheep biting lice, Bovicola ovis, on experimentally infested sheep

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 276-283

  James, P J ^a,b   Moon, R D ^a   Ragsdale, D W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antibody; Immune response; Mallophaga; Ovicola ovis; Parasite; Sheep skin

Indexed keywords

BOVICOLA OVIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MUSCA AUTUMNALIS; PARASITISM; SHEEP; STOMOXYS CALCITRANS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; LICE INFESTATIONS; MALLOPHAGA; POPULATION DENSITY; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; SKIN;

BOVICOLA OVIS; HEXAPODA; MALLOPHAGA; MUSCA AUTUMNALIS; OVICOLA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES; PHTHIRAPTERA; STOMOXYS CALCITRANS;

EID: 0032123183     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2915.1998.00110.x     Document Type: Article

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