Coccidial infections in housed lambs: Oocyst excretion, antibody levels and genetic influences on the infection

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 127, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 209-219

  Reeg, Karl Jörg ^a   Gauly, Matthias ^b   Bauer, Christian ^a   Mertens, Christina ^a   Erhardt, Georg ^a   Zahner, Horst ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antibody levels; Cumulative incidence; Eimeria spp; Heritability; Housed lambs

Indexed keywords

MATERNAL ANTIBODY; PARASITE ANTIBODY; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; EIMERIA; EIMERIA OVINOIDALIS; EIMERIA WEYBRIDGENSIS; FEMALE; GENETICS; HERITABILITY; IMMUNITY; INCIDENCE; LAMB; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; SHEEP;

EID: 13844252098     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2004.10.018     Document Type: Article

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