Acquired immunity protects against helminth infection in a natural host population: Long-term field and laboratory evidence

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 931-938

  Tinsley, Richard ^a   Stott, Lucy ^a   York, Jenny ^a   Everard, Amy ^a   Chapple, Sara ^a   Jackson, Joseph ^b   Viney, Mark ^a   Tinsley, Matthew C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acquired immunity immune memory; Age infection relationships; Long term population data; Parasite transmission; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIC; EUKARYOTE; FROG; IMMUNITY; INFECTIVITY; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; WILD POPULATION;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; METAMORPHOSIS; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; NATURAL HOST; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE LOAD; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE SURVIVAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL MATURITY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; TIME FACTORS; TREMATODA; TREMATODE INFECTIONS; WALES; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

UNITED KINGDOM; WALES;

ANIMALIA; MONOGENEA; PROTOPOLYSTOMA XENOPODIS; VERMES; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84866482656     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: 18790135     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2012.07.006     Document Type: Article

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