The immunobiology of gastrointestinal nematode infections in ruminants

Advances in Parasitology

Volumn 45, Issue , 2000, Pages 181-241

  Balic, Adam ^a   Bowles, Vernon M ^a   Meeusen, Els N T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE;

ANIMAL DISEASE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; BASOPHIL; BOVIDS; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; DEVELOPMENT; EFFECTOR CELL; EOSINOPHIL; EVOLUTION; FERTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GOBLET CELL; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOBIOLOGY; LARVA; LEUKOCYTE; MAST CELL; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; REVIEW; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STOMACH MUCUS; STRONGYLOIDEA; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS;

ANIMALIA; BOVIDAE; NEMATODA; STRONGYLIDA; STRONGYLOIDEA; TRICHOSTRONGYLOIDEA; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS;

EID: 0034106768     PISSN: 0065308X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/s0065-308x(00)45005-0     Document Type: Review

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