Helminth immunogenetics: Why bother?

Parasitology Today

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 337-343

  Read, A F ^a   Viney, M E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELMINTHIASIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGENETICS; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; STRONGYLOIDES RATTI; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS COLUBRIFORMIS; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 0030245553     PISSN: 01694758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0169-4758(96)10056-9     Document Type: Review

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