Immunoglobulin genetics and antibody responses to influenza in ducks

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1008-1017

  Magor, Katharine E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antibody isotypes; Antibody response; Duck; Immunoglobulins; Influenza; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITING ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOGLOBULIN Y; INFLUENZA VACCINE; MATERNAL ANTIBODY; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; RETINOIC ACID INDUCIBLE PROTEIN I; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 7;

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; DUCK; EPIDEMIC; GENE CONVERSION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN GENE; INFLUENZA A (H5N1); INFLUENZA VACCINATION; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; INNATE IMMUNITY; NATURAL HOST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANAS; ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 79959545875     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: 0145305X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2011.02.011     Document Type: Review

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