Factors affecting red deer skin test responsiveness to bovine and avian tuberculin and to phytohaemagglutinin

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 90, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 119-126

  Fernandez de Mera I G ^a   Vicente, J ^a,b   Hofle U ^a   Fons, F Ruiz ^a   Ortiz, J A ^c   Gortazar C ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^b Ciudad Real Agricultural Engineering School EUITA   (Spain)

^c Cinegética Las Lomas ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Body condition; Cellular immunity; Cervus elaphus; Mitogen; Paratuberculosis; Skin test; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; DEER; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM PARATUBERCULOSIS; PARATUBERCULOSIS; PREVALENCE; TUBERCULIN TEST; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; DEER; FEMALE; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. PARATUBERCULOSIS; PARATUBERCULOSIS; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; PREVALENCE; TUBERCULIN TEST;

ANIMALIA; AVES; BOVINAE; CERVIDAE; CERVUS ELAPHUS; MYCOBACTERIUM;

EID: 65649090266     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2009.04.005     Document Type: Article

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