The immune response to Giardia

Parasitology Today

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 140-145

  Faubert, Gaétan M ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR IMMUNITY; GIARDIA DUODENALIS; GIARDIASIS; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SERODIAGNOSIS;

ANIMALIA; GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES);

EID: 0029916460     PISSN: 01694758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0169-4758(96)10004-1     Document Type: Review

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