Chronicity in Strongyloides stercoralis infections: Dichotomy of the protective immune response to infective and autoinfective larvae in a mouse model

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 640-646

  Brigandi, Richard A ^a   Rotman, Harris L ^a   Nolan, Thomas J ^b   Schad, Gerhard A ^b   Abraham, David ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS;

ANIMALIA; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS;

EID: 0030742013     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1997.56.640     Document Type: Article

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