Adults acquire filarial infection more rapidly than children: A study in indonesian transmigrants

Parasitology

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 633-640

  Terhell, A J ^a   Haarbrink, M ^a   Abadi, K ^b   Syafruddin, ^b   Maizels, R M ^c   Yazdanbakhsh, M ^a   Sartono, E ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b HASANUDDIN UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age; Exposure; IgG4; Lymphatic filariasis; Transmigrants

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BRUGIA MALAYI; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; HUMAN; INDONESIA; MALE; MICROFILARIASIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; BRUGIA MALAYI; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INDONESIA; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SEX FACTORS;

BRUGIA MALAYI; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0034960202     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182001007855     Document Type: Article

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