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A Zintl1, H E Skerrett, J S Gray, P O Brophy, G Mulcahy.
Abstract
Resistance to severe babesiosis in young calves has frequently been ascribed to an unknown serum factor(s) which inhibits growth of Babesia bovis in vitro. Our experiments show that young calf sera are as suitable as adult bovine sera for the in vitro culture of Babesia divergens, indicating that in this species at least inverse age resistance is due to alternative mechanisms. The suitability of commercial foetal calf sera for B. divergens cultures seems highly variable.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID： 15177717 DOI： 10.1016/j.vetpar.2004.03.014
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Vet Parasitol ISSN： 0304-4017 Impact factor: 2.738