Journal article
Designing blood-stage vaccines against Babesia bovis and B. bigemina
Parasitology today (Regular ed.), Vol.15(7), pp.275-281
07/1999
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/105657
PMID: 10377530
Abstract
The tick-transmitted apicomplexan parasites Babesia bovis and B. bigemina cause significant disease in cattle in many tropical and temperate areas of the world. These parasites present a challenge for vaccine development, and yet provide a system for studying the pathogenesis, mechanisms of protective immunity and regulation of host immune responses associated with intraerythrocytic protozoan parasites in a non-rodent species. In this article, Wendy Brown and Guy Palmer review strategies for identifying candidate vaccine antigens of B. bovis and B. bigemina and for priming immune responses to evoke strain crossprotective immunity.
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- Title
- Designing blood-stage vaccines against Babesia bovis and B. bigemina
- Creators
- W C Brown - Program in Vector-borne Diseases, Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA. wbrown@vetmed.wsu.eduG H Palmer
- Publication Details
- Parasitology today (Regular ed.), Vol.15(7), pp.275-281
- Academic Unit
- Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology, Department of; Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health
- Publisher
- England
- Grant note
- AI-30136 / NIAID NIH HHS
- Identifiers
- 99900546732801842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article