Correlating the immune response with the clinical-pathological course of persistent mastitis experimentally induced by Mycoplasma agalactiae in dairy goats

Research in Veterinary Science

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 274-280

  Castro Alonso, A ^a   Rodriguez F ^a   De la Fe C ^a   Espinosa de los Monteros, A ^a   Poveda, J B ^a   Andrada, M ^a   Herraez P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Colony forming units; Goat; Immunohistochemistry; Mastitis; Mycoplasma agalactiae; Serological titres; Somatic cell counts

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL COUNT; CELL COUNT; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GOAT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INNATE IMMUNITY; LACTATION; MACROPHAGE; MAMMARY GLAND; MASTITIS; MILK LEVEL; MYCOPLASMA AGALACTIAE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; SOMATIC CELL;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MASTITIS; MILK; MYCOPLASMA AGALACTIAE; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

ANIMALIA; CAPRA HIRCUS; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA AGALACTIAE; MYCOPLASMATALES;

EID: 60249098952     PISSN: 00345288     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rvsc.2008.06.004     Document Type: Article

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