Living with parasites: exploiting tolerance of infection to reduce the impact of gastrointestinal nematodes in sheep

There are two broad strategies that a host may use to manage the impacts of infection. The first, and more familiar, is resistance, which is the ability of the host to prevent infection or reduce...

Bovine neonatal enteric immunity: a key consideration in the prevention of calf diarrhoea

The mucosa is the largest component of the immune system, providing a first line of defence against encountered pathogens. The gastrointestinal mucosa is highly specialised and, uniquely, needs to...

Transfer of passive immunity in dairy calves

The definition of FTPI has often been stated to be a serum IgG concentration of less than 10 mg/ml. While calves with serum IgG concentration below this cutpoint are consistently found to be at...