Specific cellular immune response and cytokine patterns in patients coinfected with hepatitis C virus and Schistosoma mansoni

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 184, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 972-982

  Kamal, Sanaa M ^a,c   Bianchi, Leonardo ^b   Al Tawil, Ahmed ^d   Koziel, Margaret ^e   El Sayed Khalifa, Khalifa ^d   Peter, Thomas ^a   Rasenack, Jens W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^d AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^e BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; COMORBIDITY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; EFFECTOR CELL; FEMALE; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERSISTENT VIRUS INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BIOPSY; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CYTOKINES; FECES; FEMALE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RNA, VIRAL; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI;

EID: 0035887783     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/323352     Document Type: Article

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