Humoral response of chicken infected with the microsporidium Encephalitozoon hellem

Parasitology Research

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 488-492

  Sakova K ^a,b   Sak, B ^a,b   Ditrich, O ^a,b   Kvac M ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN Y;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; COLON; DISEASE COURSE; ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENCEPHALITOZOON HELLEM; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; ILEUM; IMMUNE RESPONSE; JEJUNUM; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, FUNGAL; CHICKENS; CLOACA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENCEPHALITOZOONOSIS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; SPORES, FUNGAL; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENCEPHALITOZOON HELLEM; GALLUS GALLUS; MICROSPORIDIUM;

EID: 33645229780     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-005-0089-4     Document Type: Article

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