Pathogenesis of human hookworm infection: Insights from a 'new' zoonosis

Chemical Immunology

Volumn 66, Issue , 1997, Pages 62-98

  Prociv, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOOKWORM; HOOKWORM INFECTION; INFECTION; INTESTINE INFECTION; LARVA; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE; ZOONOSIS;

ANCYLOSTOMA; ANCYLOSTOMIASIS; ANEMIA, HYPOCHROMIC; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; LARVA; LUNG DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; RODENTIA; SKIN DISEASES, PARASITIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; ZOONOSES;

EID: 0030996660     PISSN: 10150145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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