'Trichostrongylus vitrinus' infection in Australian meat sheep: Partitioning cost of infection to direct and host immune-mediated components

Paul Jonathan Blackburn; Ian Carmichael; Steve W Walkden-Brown

'Trichostrongylus vitrinus' infection in Australian meat sheep: Partitioning cost of infection to direct and host immune-mediated components

Paul Jonathan Blackburn
, Ian Carmichael
, Steve W Walkden-Brown

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Background: Immune suppression with methylprednisolone alleviates depression of weight gain following infection with 'Teladorsagia circumcincta' or 'Trichostrongylus colubriformis', which suggests that host immune response rather than direct parasite damage is the major cause of lost productivity. To test this for 'Trichostrongylus vitrinus' infections we estimated the overall cost of infection (CI) in terms of lamb growth, and a component of it, the cost of host immune response (CIR) in Poll Dorset x Border Leicester-Merino lambs.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	ICOPA XIII: 13th International Congress of Parasitology - Ancient Parasites... Old Hosts... New Knowlege - Mexico City, Mexico Duration: 10 Aug 2014 → 15 Aug 2014

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Conference	ICOPA XIII: 13th International Congress of Parasitology - Ancient Parasites... Old Hosts... New Knowlege
City	Mexico City, Mexico
Period	10/08/14 → 15/08/14

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Veterinary Parasitology

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Blackburn, P. J., Carmichael, I., & Walkden-Brown, S. W. (2014). 'Trichostrongylus vitrinus' infection in Australian meat sheep: Partitioning cost of infection to direct and host immune-mediated components. Abstract from ICOPA XIII: 13th International Congress of Parasitology - Ancient Parasites... Old Hosts... New Knowlege, Mexico City, Mexico. https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/19177

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Blackburn, PJ, Carmichael, I & Walkden-Brown, SW 2014, ''Trichostrongylus vitrinus' infection in Australian meat sheep: Partitioning cost of infection to direct and host immune-mediated components', ICOPA XIII: 13th International Congress of Parasitology - Ancient Parasites... Old Hosts... New Knowlege, Mexico City, Mexico, 10/08/14 - 15/08/14. <https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/19177>

'Trichostrongylus vitrinus' infection in Australian meat sheep: Partitioning cost of infection to direct and host immune-mediated components. / Blackburn, Paul Jonathan; Carmichael, Ian; Walkden-Brown, Steve W.
2014. Abstract from ICOPA XIII: 13th International Congress of Parasitology - Ancient Parasites... Old Hosts... New Knowlege, Mexico City, Mexico.

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