Differences in the Frequency of Cytokine-Producing Cells in Antigenemic and Nonantigenemic Individuals with Bancroftian Filariasis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1377-1383

  De Almeida, Adriana B ^a,c   Maia E Silva, Maria Carmelita ^b,d   Braga, Cynthia ^b   Freedman, David O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Ctro de Pesq Aggeu Magalhaes   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 4; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-4; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 0032036582     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.4.1377-1383.1998     Document Type: Article

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