The relationship between IgA activity against 4th-stage larvae and density-dependent effects on the number of 4th-stage larvae of Teladorsagia circumcincta in naturally infected sheep

Parasitology

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 363-369

  Stear, M J ^a   Bairden, K ^a   Innocent, G T ^a   Mitchell, S ^a   Strain, S ^a   Bishop, S C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Density dependence; IgA; Inhibition; Sheep; Teladorsagia circumcincta

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; DENSITY GRADIENT; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; LAMB; LARVA; MALE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; TELADORSAGIA CIRCUMCINCTA;

ABOMASUM; ANIMALS; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; INTESTINE, SMALL; LARVA; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TRICHOSTRONGYLOIDEA; TRICHOSTRONGYLOIDIASIS;

ANIMALIA; LAMB; OVIS ARIES; TELADORSAGIA; TELADORSAGIA CIRCUMCINCTA;

EID: 4644332129     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182004005736     Document Type: Article

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