Wolbachia bacteria in filarial immunity and disease

Parasite Immunology

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 401-409

  Taylor, Mark J ^a   Cross, Helen F ^a   Ford, Louise ^a   Makunde, Williams H ^a   Prasad, G B K S ^a   Bilo, Katja ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Filariasis; Inflammation; Pathogenesis; Symbiosis; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

ANTIFILARIAL AGENT; DOXYCYCLINE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BRUGIA MALAYI; CHEMOTHERAPY; DESENSITIZATION; ELEPHANTIASIS; FILARIASIS; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHANGITIS; LYMPHEDEMA; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIDE EFFECT; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BRUGIA MALAYI; CYTOKINES; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; FILARICIDES; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRUGIA MALAYI; NEMATODA; RICKETTSIALES; WOLBACHIA; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 0034856663     PISSN: 01419838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3024.2001.00400.x     Document Type: Article

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