Cryptosporidium infection in major histocompatibility complex congeneic strains of mice: Variation in susceptibility and the role of T-cell cytokine responses

Parasitology Research

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 257-263

  Davami, M H ^a   Bancroft, G J ^a   McDonald, V ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DISEASE COURSE; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CYTOKINES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; H-2 ANTIGENS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, SCID; RATS; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0030963550     PISSN: 00443255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004360050243     Document Type: Article

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