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Immune and biochemical responses in skin differ between bovine hosts genetically susceptible and resistant to the cattle tick Rhipicephalus microplus

BACKGROUND: Ticks attach to and penetrate their hosts’ skin and inactivate multiple components of host responses in order to acquire a blood meal. Infestation loads with the cattle tick, Rhipicephalus microplus, are heritable: some breeds carry high loads of reproductively successful ticks, whereas...

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Autores principales: Franzin, Alessandra Mara, Maruyama, Sandra Regina, Garcia, Gustavo Rocha, Oliveira, Rosane Pereira, Ribeiro, José Marcos Chaves, Bishop, Richard, Maia, Antônio Augusto Mendes, Moré, Daniela Dantas, Ferreira, Beatriz Rossetti, Santos, Isabel Kinney Ferreira de Miranda
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5282843/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28143523
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-016-1945-z