The modulatory influence of Trypanosoma brucei on challenge infection with Haemonchus contortus in Nigerian West African Dwarf goats segregated into weak and strong responders to the nematode

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 128, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 29-40

  Chiejina, S N ^a   Musongong, G A ^b   Fakae, B B ^a   Behnke, J M ^c   Ngongeh, L A ^a   Wakelin, D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

^b Veterinary Research Laboratory   (Cameroon)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Escalating infection; Haemonchus contortus; Nigeria; Response phenotypes; Trypanosoma brucei; West African Dwarf (WAD) goats

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BODY BURDEN; BODY WEIGHT; BREED; CELL VOLUME; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; EXAMINATION; EXPOSURE; FECES ANALYSIS; GOAT; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INOCULATION; MALE; MICROANALYSIS; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MICROSCOPY; NEMATODIASIS; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PROVOCATION TEST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

ANIMALIA; CAPRA HIRCUS; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 13844297570     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2004.11.005     Document Type: Article

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