Establishment of an in vitro chicken epithelial cell line model to investigate Eimeria tenella gamete development

Abstract Background Eimeria tenella infection leads to acute intestinal disorders responsible for important economic losses in poultry farming worldwide. The life-cycle of E. tenella is monoxenous with the chicken as the exclusive host; infection occurs in caecal epithelial cells. However, in vitro,...

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Main Authors: Françoise I. Bussière, Alisson Niepceron, Alix Sausset, Evelyne Esnault, Anne Silvestre, Robert A. Walker, Nicholas C. Smith, Pascale Quéré, Fabrice Laurent
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-01-01
Series:Parasites & Vectors
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13071-018-2622-1