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Local immune response to larvae of Rhipicephalus microplus in Santa Gertrudis cattle.
Parasite immunology - 1 Apr 2018
Constantinoiu C C, Lew-Tabor A, Jackson L A, Jorgensen W K, Piper E K, Mayer D G, Johnson L, Venus B, Jonsson N N
Abstract excerpt
This study investigated the local immune response at larval attachment sites in Santa Gertrudis cattle with low and high levels of tick resistance. Skin samples with tick larvae attached were collected from Santa Gertrudis cattle at the end of a period of 25 weekly infestations, when the animals manifested highly divergent tick-resistant phenotypes. There was a tendency for more CD3+ , CD4+ , CD8+ , CD25+ , γδ T...
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