Bird mites
Filariasis
- Host condition and host immunity affect parasite fitness in a bird - ectoparasite
- Ecological immunology of bird- ectoparasite systems
- Antibody development against northern fowl mites (Acari: Macronyssidae) in chickens. - PubMed - NCBI
- Correlation of estimated and actual northern fowl mite populations with the evolution of specific antibody to a low molecular weight polypeptide in... - PubMed - NCBI
- Acquired immune response of white leghorn hens to populations of northern fowl mite, Ornithonyssus sylviarum (Canestrini and Fanzago). - PubMed - NCBI
Filariasis
- researchpub.org/journal/iti/number/vol1-no4/vol1-no4-3.pdf
Approximately 200 million people are infected with the major forms of filarial parasites causing the diseases - lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, and loiasis. Even though infections by these pathogens are generally not fatal, they are associated with high rates of morbidity, and disability. Helminths are master regulators of host immune responses, developing complex mechanisms to dampen host protective Th2-type responses and favour long- term persistence. In order to chronically infect their hosts, filarial nematodes have produced a range of approaches to evade and down-modulate the host’s immune system - http://www.tropmed.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/chapter10-2.pdf
- As is the case in lymphatic filariasis, cellular immune responses against a range of antigens are reduced and IgG4 dominates the isotype pattern in classical onchocerciasis