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Eimeria maxima

General Information
Vaccine Related Pathogen Genes
1. gam56
2. gam56
3. gam82
4. gam82
5. mic2
6. mic7
7. TFP250
Vaccine Related Host Genes
1. IL15
2. IL2
Vaccine Information
References

I. General Information

1. NCBI Taxonomy ID:

5804

2. Disease:

Coccidiosis

3. Introduction

Eimeria spp. are obligate intracellular apicomplexan protozoan parasites and are the cause of intestinal coccidiosis. Infections of the vertebrate host with these parasites result in the induction of potent protective immune responses, and protection against challenge infections is confined absolutely to homologous species, even though both T- and B-cell responses exhibit cross-species reactivity. Eimeria maxima is the most immunogenic of the seven species of Eimeria that infect the domestic chicken (Smith et al., 2002).

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