Article
Characterisation of the immunological response to Lawsonia intracellularis and improvement of diagnostic tools
2021-01-01
Abstract excerpt
Lawsonia intracellularis (L. intracellularis) is an obligate intracellular bacterium associated with enteric disease in pigs. Clinical signs include weight loss, diarrhoea and, in some cases, sudden death. The hallmark pathology is the thickening of the intestinal mucosa due to increased epithelial cell replication known as proliferative enteropathy. The diagnosis tools currently available for L. intracellularis o...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 37ddd89a-3def-55ed-b5ed-849eb58a0752
- DOI
- 10.7488/era/1232
