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Application of Long-term cultured Interferon-γ Enzyme-linked Immunospot Assay for Assessing Effector and Memory T Cell Responses in Cattle
Published on: July 11, 2015
[Humoral immune response of cattle with anaplasmosis]
Abstract:
A study was carried out tracing the humoral and immune response of cows who have suffered from anaplasmosis (A. marginale). Selected antigens were utilized according to the method of McHardy and Gillson in a series of CF and RA serological tests. We studied 75 blood serums from 6 cows, taken periodically in the course of a year. The complement fixation antibodies reached their highest titre between the first and the second month after the infection (1:640) and their lowest titre towards the eleventh/twelfth month (1:40), whereas the agglutinative antibodies reached their highest titre between the second and the third month (1:64) and their lowest titre towards the twelfth month (1:4).
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