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| Reference : Haematological and Immunological Response of Unrestrained Cattle to Psoroptes Ovis, the ... |
| Scientific journals : Article | |||
| Life sciences : Veterinary medicine & animal health | |||
| http://hdl.handle.net/2268/27858 | |||
| Haematological and Immunological Response of Unrestrained Cattle to Psoroptes Ovis, the Sheep Scab Mite | |
| English | |
Losson, Bertrand  [Université de Liège - ULg > Département des maladies infectieuses et parasitaires > Parasitologie et pathologie des maladies parasitaires >] | |
| Detry-Pouplard, M. [> > > >] | |
| Pouplard, L. [ > > ] | |
| Mar-1988 | |
| Research in Veterinary Science | |
| 44 | |
| 2 | |
| 197-201 | |
| International | |
| 0034-5288 | |
| [en] Cows were infected twice with 600 and 500 nymphs and adults of a bovine strain of Psoroptes ovis with a nine-week interval. The haematological response and the non-specific mitogen- and antigen-induced responsiveness of the peripheral blood lymphocytes of the animals was followed. Dermal reactivity to P ovis antigen injection was studied five weeks after reinfection. After the first infection with 600 mites none of the infected animals developed clinical psoroptic mange but a leucocytosis developed, contributed to primarily by an eosinophilia and by a slight lymphocytosis. Antigen-induced lymphocyte blastogenesis was used to measure the antigen-sensitive cell population in peripheral blood and this population showed a maximum increase 10 days after infection; however, antigen-sensitive cells remained above normal levels until reinfection. Upon challenge infection with 500 mites the infected animals showed an immediate hypersensitivity type reaction with a marked pruritus, scratching and exudation. Thereafter the lesions healed rapidly and none of the animals developed clinical mange. This clinical reaction was accompanied by a secondary eosinophilia but no change was apparent in the other blood elements. A marked increase in the blastogenic response of the peripheral blood lymphocytes was also apparent and this peaked three weeks after challenge. Following the intradermal injection of P ovis antigen there was an immediate swelling of the injection site in all infected and control animals and skin thickness was maximal one hour after injection. Thereafter there was a clear distinction in dermal reactions between P ovis infected and control animals; after 48 hours reactions were not seen in the control animals while marked dermal reactions were still present in the P ovis infected group. | |
| http://hdl.handle.net/2268/27858 |
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