Proteophosphoglycan, a major secreted product of intracellular Leishmania mexicana amastigotes, is a poor B-cell antigen and does not elicit a specific conventional CD4+ T-cell response

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 5379-5385

  Aebischer, Toni ^a,b   Harbecke, Dorothee ^a   Ilg, Thomas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INST FÜR BIOLOGIE   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0032880489     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.10.5379-5385.1999     Document Type: Article

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