Field application of a subunit vaccine against an enteric protozoan disease

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Wallach, Michael G ^a   Ashash, Udi ^b   Michael, Amnon ^b   Smith, Nicholas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b TEVA PHARMACEUTICALS   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIVE VACCINE; MATERNAL ANTIBODY; SUBUNIT VACCINE; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOAL VACCINE;

ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; BREEDING; CHICK; COCCIDIOSIS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; EIMERIA; EIMERIA MAXIMA; GAMETOCYTE; HATCHLING; HEN; IMMUNITY; IMMUNIZATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; PROGENY; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SOUTH AFRICA; THAILAND; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CHICKEN; CLINICAL TRIAL; GERM CELL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VACCINATION;

AVES; EIMERIA; EIMERIA MAXIMA; GALLUS GALLUS; PROTOZOA;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BREEDING; CHICKENS; COCCIDIOSIS; EIMERIA; GERM CELLS; IMMUNITY; PROTOZOAN VACCINES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VACCINATION; VACCINES, SUBUNIT;

EID: 58049200711     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003948     Document Type: Article

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