Is there a relationship between haemoglobin genotype and the innate resistance to experimental Haemonchus contortus infection in Merino lambs?

doi:10.1016/0304-4017(90)90026-8

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Is there a relationship between haemoglobin genotype and the innate resistance to experimental Haemonchus contortus infection in Merino lambs?

Veterinary parasitology - 1 Aug 1990

Kassai T, Fésüs L, Hendrikx W M, Takáts C, Fok E, Redl P, Takács E, Nilsson P R, van Leeuwen M A, Jansen J

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Responses to a single or repeated infection with 7000 infective larvae of Haemonchus contortus were studied in an experiment using a total of 106 3-month-old lambs with AA, AB or BB haemoglobin (Hb) genotypes. Results were assessed by faecal egg counts, adult worm counts, haematocrit values, haem...

Topics

Animals
Disease Susceptibility
Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
Feces
Female
Genotype
Haemonchiasis
Haemonchus
Hemoglobins
Male
Parasite Egg Count
Parasitology
Sheep
Sheep Diseases

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PMID: 2238431
DOI: 10.1016/0304-4017(90)90026-8

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