Experimental Ascuris-induced airway hypersensitivity in sheep: no serological evidence of association with Toxocara canis infection |
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| Authors: | W. Chen M.R. Alley R.A. Allardyce J. Keenan |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Veterinary Pathology and Public Health , Massey Universitg , Palmerston North;2. Department of Surgery , Christchurch School of Medicine Christchurch Hospital , Christchurch |
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| Abstract: | Abstract Extract The finding that 70% of sheep from the Manawatu district were hypersensitive to challenge by inhalation of Ascaris suum antigen, regardless of their previous history of exposure to pigs(1 Chen, W, Pack, RJ, Alley, MR, Carr, DH and Manktelow, BW. 1990. Airway hypersensitivity induced by Ascaris scum extract in New Zealand Romney sheep. New Zealand Veterinary Journal, 38: 5741–5741. [Google Scholar]), has raised the possibility that these sheep had been sensitised by exposure to the common dog nematode Toxocara canis. |
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