Immune response to Echinococcus infection: Parasite avoidance and host protection

Parassitologia

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 355-358

  Wakelin, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Echinococcus granulosus; Echinococcus multilocularis; Genetic variation; Immune responses; Immunomodulation; T cells

Indexed keywords

HELMINTH ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DOG; DOG DISEASE; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; INTESTINE INFECTION; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; PARASITOLOGY; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VACCINATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VACCINATION;

EID: 0031310813     PISSN: 00482951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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