Humoral immune response in adult blue foxes (Alopex lagopus) after oral infection with Encephalitozoon cuniculi spores

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 113, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 203-210

  Åkerstedt, Johan ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Alopex lagopus; CIA; ELISA; Encephalitozoon cuniculi; Experimental infection; Fox; Humoral immune response; Microsporidia; Western blot

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FOX; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOASSAY; INFORMATION; MICROSPORE; MOUTH INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE SERODIAGNOSIS; RECORDING; SEROLOGY;

ALOPEX LAGOPUS; ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; LAGOPUS; MICROSPORIDIA; VULPES LAGOPUS;

EID: 0037406323     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4017(03)00063-3     Document Type: Article

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