Opsonic capacity of foal serum for the two neonatal pathogens Escherichia coli and Actinobacillus equuli

Equine Veterinary Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 670-675

  Grondahl G ^a   Sternberg, S ^b   Jensen Waern, M ^a   Johannisson, A ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Actinobacillus equuli; Escherichia coli; Foals; Horse; IgGa; IgGb; Opsonisation; Phagocytosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; OPSONIN;

ACTINOBACILLUS; AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD; COLOSTRUM; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NEUTROPHIL; PHAGOCYTOSIS; SEPTICEMIA;

ACTINOBACILLUS; ACTINOBACILLUS INFECTIONS; AGE FACTORS; ANIMAL; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; COLOSTRUM; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; NEUTROPHILS; OPSONINS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; SEPTICEMIA; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0035515063     PISSN: 04251644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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