Maternal immunization by egg propagated gametocyte vaccine to control Eimeria tenella infections in newly hatched chicks

Parasitology Research

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1139-1141

  Hafeez, M Abdul ^a   Akhtar, Masood ^a   Javed, M Tariq ^a   Ul Haq, Ahsan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIMERIA TENELLA VACCINE; IMMUNOLOGICAL ADJUVANT; PROTOZOAL VACCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHICK; CHICKEN; COCCIDIOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; EIMERIA TENELLA; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GAMETOCYTE; HATCHING; IMMUNOPROPHYLAXIS; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SPOROGENESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; CHICKENS; COCCIDIOSIS; EIMERIA TENELLA; PROTOZOAN VACCINES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EIMERIA TENELLA; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 33847681801     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-006-0382-x     Document Type: Article

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