Seeking the ghost of worms past

Nature Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1225-1227

  Woolhouse, M E J ^a   Hagan, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCKING ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IMMUNITY; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFECTION; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA INTERCALATUM; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SHORT SURVEY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CHILD; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; INTERLEUKINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS;

EID: 0032719063     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/15169     Document Type: Short Survey

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