Protective Immune Mechanisms to Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases of Ruminants

• Published in: Parasitology Today Vol. 15; no. 7; pp. 255 - 258
• Main Authors: Preston, P.M, Jongejan, F
• Format: Book Review Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier B.V 01.07.1999
• Subjects: Animals; Antibody Formation; Immunity; Immunity, Cellular; Immunity, Innate; Ixodidae; Ruminantia; Ruminants; Ruminants - immunology; Ruminants - microbiology; Ruminants - parasitology; Tick-borne diseases; Tick-Borne Diseases - immunology; Tick-Borne Diseases - microbiology; Tick-Borne Diseases - parasitology; Ticks; Ticks - immunology; Vaccines, DNA; Vaccines, Synthetic; Parasitology; Immunology; Ticks; Evolution; Pharmacology; Immunity; Tick-borne diseases; Ruminants

A workshop of the European Union (EU) Concerted Action Project on the Integrated Control of Ticks and Tick-borne diseases (CA-ICTTD) recently assessed protective immune mechanisms to ticks and tick-borne diseases. The consensus achieved there is summarized here by Patricia Preston and Frans Jongejan...