Parasite-specific antibody and cellular immune responses in humans infected with Necator americanus and Oesophagostomum bifurcum

Parasitology Research

Volumn 87, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 722-729

  Pit, D ^a   Polderman, A ^a   Baeta, S ^b   Schulz Key, H ^c   Soboslay, P ^c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LOMÉ   (Togo)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 5; PARASITE ANTIBODY; PARASITE ANTIGEN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CROSS REACTION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECATOR AMERICANUS; PARASITE IMMUNITY; PERSISTENT INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SERODIAGNOSIS; STRONGYLOIDEA; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; CHILD; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECATOR AMERICANUS; NECATORIASIS; OESOPHAGOSTOMIASIS; OESOPHAGOSTOMUM; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; NECATOR AMERICANUS; NEMATODA; OESOPHAGOSTOMUM BIFURCUM; STRONGYLOIDEA; VERMES;

EID: 0034896332     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004360100419     Document Type: Article

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