Article
Cellular immune responses in the skin of sheep infected with larvae of Lucilia cuprina, the sheep blowfly.
Veterinary parasitology - 1 Sept 1992
Bowles V M, Grey S T, Brandon M R
Abstract excerpt
Cellular immune responses were observed in the skin of sheep after primary and secondary infection with sheep blowfly (Lucilia cuprina) larvae. Both primary and secondary infections resulted in a massive cellular infiltration within 48 h of wound initiation, with the majority of cells having the...
Topics
- Animals
- Diptera
- Eosinophils
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class II
- Immunity, Cellular
- Larva
- Lymphocyte Subsets
- Male
- Mast Cells
- Myiasis
- Neutrophils
- Phenotype
- Sheep
