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Studies on Bunostomum trigonocephalum (Rudolphi, 1808)

VIII. Investigations in bunostomiasis with precipitin rings flocculation and agar gel diffusion tests

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The antibody response to Bunostomum trigonocephalum is absent or very weak during the first 15 or 14 days of the infection in lambs and kids respectively but subsequently, positive precipitin ring and flocculation tests were obtained. Rabbits were hyperimmunised with the saline extract of the III stage larvae of B. trigonocephalum. The agar gel diffusion test revealed more than one antigenic component in the saline extract of the larvae but only one antigenic entity appeared to be present in excretory and secretory antigen.

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Die Antikörperproduktion gegen Bunostomum trigonocephalum in Lämmern und Ziegenlämmern fehlt oder ist schwach während der ersten 15 oder 14 Tage nach der Infektion; danach können jedoch positive Reaktionen mittels des Präzipitationsringtests und der Flockungsreaktion nachgewiesen werden. Im Agargel-Diffusions-Test wurden gegen Hyperimmunseren vom Kaninchen, immunisiert mit einem salzhaltigen Extrakt aus III. Larven, bis drei Präzipitationslinien, bei einem sekretorisch exkretorischen Antigen eine Linie beobachtet.

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  1. V. K. Srivastava

    Present address: Institut für Parasitologie und Parasitäre Krankheiten der Tiere, 6300, Gießen, Germany

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  1. Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, U.P., India

    V. K. Srivastava & G. Subramanian

  2. Department of Parasitology, Livestock Research, Station Bihar, Patna, 14, India

    V. K. Srivastava & G. Subramanian

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Srivastava, V.K., Subramanian, G. Studies on Bunostomum trigonocephalum (Rudolphi, 1808). Z. F. Parasitenkunde 32, 341–346 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00259646

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