The variant Arg110Gln of human IL-13 is associated with an immunologically hyper-reactive form of onchocerciasis (sowda)

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 37-42

  Hoerauf, Achim ^a   Kruse, Susanne ^b   Brattig, Norbert W ^a   Heinzmann, Andrea ^b   Mueller Myhsok, Bertram ^a   Deichmann, Klaus A ^b  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allelic variant; Helminths; IgE; IL 13; Onchocerciasis; Polymorphism; Sowda

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN 13;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; GENE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN-13; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SKIN DISEASES, PARASITIC;

ONCHOCERCA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; VERMES;

EID: 0036159209     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1286-4579(01)01507-6     Document Type: Article

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