
Antibody and cell-mediated immune responses to Staphylococcus aureus small colony variants and their parental strains associated with bovine mastitis
Keywords: Bovine mastitis; Staphylococcus aureus small colony variant (S. aureus SCV); Persistent infection; IgG1 and IgG2 isotypes; Antibody-mediated immune response (AMIR); Cell-mediated immune response (CMIR); Delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH)