Immune Responses of a Native and an Invasive Bird to Buggy Creek Virus (Togaviridae: Alphavirus) and Its Arthropod Vector, the Swallow Bug (Oeciacus vicarius)

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Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Fassbinder Orth, Carol A ^a   Barak, Virginia A ^a   Brown, Charles R ^b  

^a CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN Y;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ALPHA VIRUS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARBOVIRUS; ARTICLE; BUGGY CREEK VIRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; NESTING; NONHUMAN; OECIACUS VICARIUS; ORGANISM COLONY; PARASITE IMMUNITY; PARASITE VECTOR; PETROCHELIDON PYRRHONOTA; SPARROW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VIRUS IMMUNITY;

EID: 84874531600     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058045     Document Type: Article

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