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DURING experimental work on helminth immunity, it was observed that the sera of month-old worm-free lambs gave positive reactions for anti-nematode antibodies. When this observation was made, all the available ewes but one had lambed. A small-scale test was made to determine whether antibodies to parasitic nematodes could be detected in the colostrum of nematode-infected ewes and whether their offspring acquired these antibodies as a result of suckling.
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FILMER, D., McCLURE, T. Absorption of Anti-Nematode Antibodies from Ewe's Colostrum by the New-born Lamb. Nature 168, 170 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/168170a0
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