Resistance against heterogeneous sequential infections: Experimental studies with a tapeworm and its copepod host

Journal of Helminthology

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 199-206

  Kurtz, J ^a,b   Hammerschmidt, K ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; LECTIN;

CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CESTODE; CESTODIASIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPEPOD; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; LARVA; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; REINFECTION; SCHISTOCEPHALUS SOLIDUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; CESTODA; CESTODE INFECTIONS; COPEPODA; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; LARVA; RECURRENCE;

COPEPODA; INVERTEBRATA; SCHISTOCEPHALUS SOLIDUS;

EID: 33746020243     PISSN: 0022149X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/JOH2006349     Document Type: Conference Paper

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