Filariidae: Cross-protection in filarial infections

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 352-356

  Geiger, Stefan M ^a   Hoffmann, Wolfgang ^a   Rapp, Joachim ^a   Schulz Key, Hartwig ^a   Eisenbeiss, Wilhelm F ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INST FÜR BIOLOGIE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VACCINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS RESISTANCE; FEMALE; FILARIA; FILARIASIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST;

ANIMALIA; FILARIA; ONCHOCERCIDAE;

EID: 0030219673     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1996.0083     Document Type: Article

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