Vaccination with recombinant oncosphere antigens reduces the susceptibility of sheep to infection with Taenia multiceps

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 38, Issue 8-9, 2008, Pages 1041-1050

  Gauci, Charles ^a   Vural, Gulay ^b   Öncel, Taraneh ^b   Varcasia, Antonio ^c   Damian, Veronica ^a   Kyngdon, Craig T ^a   Craig, Philip S ^d   Anderson, Garry A ^a   Lightowlers, Marshall W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Veteriner Kontrol ve Arastirma Enstitusu   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antigens; Oncosphere; Recombinant; Sheep vaccine; Taenia multiceps; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

QUIL A; RECOMBINANT TM16 ANTIGEN; RECOMBINANT TM18 ANTIGEN; VACCINE;

ANTIGEN; IMMUNITY; PARASITE; PARASITE INFESTATION; PROTEIN; RECOMBINATION; SHEEP; VACCINATION; VACCINE;

ACTIVE IMMUNIZATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; IMMUNITY; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SHEEP; TAENIA; TAENIA MULTICEPS; TAENIASIS; VACCINATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; DOGS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTOZOAN VACCINES; SHEEP DISEASES; SHEEP, DOMESTIC; TAENIA; TAENIASIS; VACCINES, SYNTHETIC;

ANIMALIA; BOS; CAPRA HIRCUS; CESTODA; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; OVIS ARIES; TAENIA; TAENIA MULTICEPS; TAENIA OVIS;

EID: 44149084737     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2007.11.006     Document Type: Article

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