Developing vaccines to control protozoan parasites in ruminants: Dead or alive?

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 180, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 155-163

  Innes, Elisabeth A ^a   Bartley, Paul M ^a   Rocchi, Mara ^a   Benavidas Silvan, Julio ^a   Burrells, Alison ^a   Hotchkiss, Emily ^a   Chianini, Francesca ^a   Canton, German ^a   Katzer, Frank ^a  

^a MOREDUN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Killed; Live; Livestock; Protozoa; Vaccines

Indexed keywords

LIVE VACCINE; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOAL VACCINE; THEILERIA SCHIZONT ANTIGEN; TOXOPLASMA GONDII VACCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMAL HEALTH; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ANIMAL PRODUCT; ANIMAL WELFARE; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT DISORDER; BRADYZOITE; CATTLE DISEASE; CONGENITAL TOXOPLASMOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD POISONING; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOREGULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; LIFE CYCLE; LIVESTOCK; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MEAT; MILK; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NEOSPOROSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CONTROL; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SCHIZONT; SPOROZOITE; SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; THEILERIA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; VACCINE PRODUCTION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; PROTOZOAN VACCINES; PUBLIC HEALTH; RUMINANTS; VACCINES, ATTENUATED; VACCINES, INACTIVATED; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALIA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 79960307580     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2011.05.036     Document Type: Article

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