Immunity in experimental murine filariasis: Roles of T and B cells revisited

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 3166-3167

  Babu, Subash ^a   Shultz, Leonard D ^b   Klei, Thomas R ^c   Rajan, T V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; HYPERIMMUNE GLOBULIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BRUGIA MALAYI; FILARIA; FILARIASIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0033022540     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.6.3166-3167.1999     Document Type: Article

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