Babesia bovis: Vaccination of cattle against heterologous challenge with fractions of lysate from infected erythrocytes

Autor: B.V. Goodger, G. B. Mirre, M.A. Commins, I.G. Wright
Rok vydání: 1984
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Zdroj: Zeitschrift f�r Parasitenkunde Parasitology Research. 70:321-329
ISSN: 1432-1955
0044-3255
DOI: 10.1007/bf00927818
Popis: The distilled water lysate of erythrocytes infected with Babesia bovis was separated by gel filtration on Sephadex G200. The void volume fraction or a pool of retained fractions which had immunodiffusion activity were injected into two groups of five cattle. These were challenged 2 weeks after the final vaccination with a heterologous strain of B. bovis. A control group of five cattle was similarly challenged. Two of the five control animals died from the challenge, whereas none of the vaccinated animals died. There were significant differences in parasitaemia and pathophysiological parameters between the vaccinated groups and the control group.
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