How lambs control infection with Ostertagia circumcincta

Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology

Volumn 72, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 213-218

  Stear, M J ^a   Strain, S ^a   Bishop, S C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fecundity; Genetics; Growth; IgA; Immunology; Nematoda; Ostertagia circumcincta; Parasitology; Sheep; Teladorsagia circumcincta

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A;

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; FECES ANALYSIS; GENETIC RESISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION CONTROL; LAMB; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; OSTERTAGIA; WORM;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OSTERTAGIA; OSTERTAGIASIS; PARASITE EGG COUNT; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; NEMATODA; OSTERTAGIA; OVIS ARIES; TELADORSAGIA CIRCUMCINCTA;

EID: 0032746103     PISSN: 01652427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-2427(99)00134-8     Document Type: Article

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