Immunity to onchocerciasis: Cells from putatively immune individuals produce enhanced levels of interleukin-5, gamma interferon, and granulocyte- macrophage colony-stimulating factor in response to Onchocerca volvulus larval and male worm antigens

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1905-1911

  Turaga, Prasad S D ^a   Tierney, Tracy J ^a,b   Bennett, Kristine E ^a,b   McCarthy, Maggie C ^a,b   Simonek, Scott C ^a,b   Enyong, Peter A ^b   Moukatte, Daniel W ^c   Lustigman, Sara ^a  

^a NEW YORK BLOOD CENTER   (United States)

^b Tropical Medicine Research Station   (Cameroon)

^c District Referal Hospital   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 5;

ARTICLE; CAMEROON; CYTOKINE RELEASE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; MICROFILARIASIS; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTE-MACROPHAGE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; HUMANS; IMMUNITY; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-5; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; TH1 CELLS; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 0034100620     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.4.1905-1911.2000     Document Type: Article

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