Improving animal and human health through understanding liver fluke immunology

Parasite Immunology

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 572-581

  Piedrafita, D ^a   Spithill, T W ^b   Smith, R E ^a   Raadsma, H W ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fasciola; fasciolosis; genetic resistance; immunology; indigenous sheep breeds; liver fluke

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CATHEPSIN B; CATHEPSIN L; VACCINE; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT;

ANIMAL HEALTH; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; BREED; BUFFALO; CATTLE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DRUG TARGETING; FASCIOLA GIGANTICA; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; FASCIOLIASIS; FECES ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SELECTION; HEALTH; HOST; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN HEALTH; IMMUNOLOGY; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REVIEW; SERODIAGNOSIS; SURFACE ENHANCED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; ANIMAL; BOVINAE; BREEDING; CATTLE DISEASES; GOAT; GOAT DISEASES; IMMUNE EVASION; INNATE IMMUNITY; PARASITOLOGY; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; VETERINARY;

ANIMALIA; BOS; CAPRA HIRCUS; FASCIOLA; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; OVIS ARIES; VERMES;

ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; BREEDING; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; FASCIOLIASIS; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNE EVASION; IMMUNITY, INNATE; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; VACCINES;

EID: 77954626411     PISSN: 01419838     EISSN: 13653024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3024.2010.01223.x     Document Type: Review

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