Nematode burdens and cellular responses in the abomasal mucosa and blood of Florida Native, Rambouillet and crossbreed lambs

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 311-324

  Amarante, A F T ^a,b   Craig, T M ^a   Ramsey, W S ^c   Davis, S K ^c   Bazer, F W ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breed resistance; Eosinophils; Globule leucocytes; Haemonchus; Mast cells; Nematode; Sheep

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CROSS BREEDING; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; LAMB; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MAST CELL; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; PRODUCTIVITY; RUMINANT STOMACH;

ABOMASUM; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; BLOOD PROTEINS; BREEDING; CROSSES, GENETIC; EOSINOPHILS; FECES; FEMALE; HAEMONCHIASIS; HAEMONCHUS; HEMATOCRIT; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MAST CELLS; PARASITE EGG COUNT; REFRACTOMETRY; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES;

ANIMALIA; HAEMONCHUS; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; NEMATODA; OVIS ARIES; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS;

EID: 0032953477     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4017(98)00229-5     Document Type: Article

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