Immune mechanisms in Onchocerca volvulus-mediated corneal disease (river blindness)

Parasite Immunology

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 625-631

  Pearlman, Eric ^a,b   Hall, Laurie R ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cornea; Eosinophil; Neutrophil; Onchocerca; T cell

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA NEOVASCULARIZATION; CORNEA OPACITY; CORNEA STROMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KERATITIS; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; CORNEA; CORNEAL DISEASES; CORNEAL OPACITY; EOSINOPHILS; KERATITIS; NEUTROPHILS; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS, OCULAR; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 0033670421     PISSN: 01419838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3024.2000.00345.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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