Immunoregulation in onchocerciasis: Persons with ocular inflammatory disease produce a Th2-like response to Onchocerca volvulus antigen

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 174, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 380-386

  Plier, David Adam ^a   Awadzi, Kwablah ^b   Freedman, David O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; MESSENGER RNA; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GHANA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOREGULATION; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; IRITIS; KERATITIS; MICROFILARIA; MONONUCLEAR CELL; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UVEITIS;

EID: 0030014997     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/174.2.380     Document Type: Article

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