Protecting parasites prevents gastro-damage. (vaccine research to stimulate antibodies instead of the immune system to fight livestock parasites)

From: Agricultural Research | Date: January 1, 1991| Author: Hays, Sandy Miller | Copyright information

Protecting Parasites Prevents Gastro-damage

Some folks might find Phillip Klesius' philosophy on internal parasite infection in livestock a little shocking. In a nutshell, it's "live and let live."

In fact, Klesius, who is an Agricultural Research Service microbiologist, goes a step farther. At the animal Parasite Research Laboratory at Auburn, Alabama, he's developing a vaccine that would actually run interference between the parasite and the animal's own immune...

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