Infection of BALB/c mice with the filarial nematode Litomosoides sigmodontis: Role of CD4+ T cells in controlling larval development

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 2457-2461

  Al Qaoud, Khaled M ^a   Taubert, Anja ^b   Zahner, Horst ^b   Fleischer, Bernhard ^a   Hoerauf, Achim ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; EOSINOPHILIA; FILARIA; FILARIASIS; HOST RESISTANCE; HYPERIMMUNOGLOBULINEMIA E; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; INFECTION RESISTANCE; LARVA; LYMPHOCYTE DEPLETION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

EID: 0031008939     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.6.2457-2461.1997     Document Type: Article

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