Antibody responses to filarial infective larvae are not dominated by the IgG4 isotype

Parasite Immunology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 9-17

  Kurniawan Atmadja, Agnes ^a,b   Sartono, Erliyani ^a,c   Partono, Felix ^a   Yazdanbakhsh, Maria ^c   Maizels, Rick M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INDONESIA   (Indonesia)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Filariasis; Immunofluorescence; Immunoglobulins; Nematodes; Surface antigens

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FILARIA; FILARIASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOGENICITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; LARVA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

FILARIA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0031950305     PISSN: 01419838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3024.1998.t01-1-00118.x     Document Type: Article

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