Humoral immune response of water buffalo monitored with three different antigens of Toxocara vitulorum

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 67-78

  De Souza, E M ^a   Starke Buzetti, W A ^a   Ferreira, F P ^a   Neves, M F ^a   Machado, R Z ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

ELISA; Toxocara vitulorum; Water buffalo

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; EXCRETORY EXTRACT ANTIGEN; PERIENTERIC FLUID ANTIGEN; SOLUBLE EXTRACT ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BLOOD SAMPLING; BUFFALO; COLOSTRUM; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COW; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LABOR; LARVA; LIQUID; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; TOXOCARA; TOXOCARA VITULORUM; WORM;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; BUFFALOES; COLOSTRUM; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES; FEMALE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MILK; PARASITE EGG COUNT; TOXOCARA; TOXOCARIASIS;

BUBALUS; BUBALUS BUBALIS; TOXOCARA; TOXOCARA VITULORUM;

EID: 2442714821     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2004.03.013     Document Type: Article

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