Theileria parva infection in calves causes massive lymphocyte death in the thymus, spleen and lymph nodes without initial proliferation

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 142, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 260-270

  Mbassa, G K ^a   Kipanyula, M J ^a   Mellau, L S B ^a   Mwamakali, E D ^b   Bulegeya, F R ^b   Kauto Mboni, K ^b  

^a SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF TANZANIA   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

East Coast fever; Lymphocyte proliferation; Theileria parva

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; DEATH; DYSPNEA; EDEMA; FEVER; LUNG EDEMA; LYMPH FOLLICLE; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; SPLEEN; THEILERIA PARVA; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CELL DEATH; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; SPLEEN; THEILERIA PARVA; THEILERIASIS; THYMUS GLAND; TIME FACTORS;

PROTOZOA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; THEILERIA PARVA;

EID: 33751058955     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2006.07.010     Document Type: Article

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