Age‐specific acquisition of immunity to infective larvae in a bancroftian filariasis endemic area of Papua New Guinea

Parasite Immunology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1991, Pages 277-290

  DAY, KAREN P ^a   GREGORY, WILLIAM F ^a   MAIZELS, RICK M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

age; filanasis; fluorescence; human; Ig isotypes; immunity; immunoprecipitation; surface antigens; surface labelling; third stage larvae; Western blot

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MALE; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANIMAL; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; CHILD; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ISOTYPES; LARVA; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 0025825036     PISSN: 01419838     EISSN: 13653024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3024.1991.tb00282.x     Document Type: Article

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