Immunological control of the poultry red mite: The use of whole mite antigens as a vaccine candidate

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1149, Issue , 2008, Pages 36-40

  Arkle, Sam ^a   Harrington, David ^a   Kaiser, Pete ^b   Rothwell, Lisa ^b   De Luna, Carlos ^a   George, David ^a   Guy, Jonathan ^a   Sparagano, Olivier A E ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antigen; Chicken; Dermanyssus gallinae; Ectoparasite; Poultry red mite; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; CYTOKINE; FREUND ADJUVANT; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOGLOBULIN Y; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; PARASITE ANTIGEN; POULTRY RED MITE ANTIGEN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VACCINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY TITER; BIRD; BIRD DISEASE; BODY WEIGHT; CHICKEN; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DERMANYSSUS GALLINAE; DRUG EFFICACY; ECTOPARASITE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNIZATION; MALE; MITE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POULTRY; POULTRY RED MITE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SURVIVAL RATE; VACCINE PRODUCTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACARI; AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DERMANYSSUS GALLINAE;

EID: 57849085879     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1428.057     Document Type: Conference Paper

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