Resistance and susceptibility in human onchocerciasis - Beyond Th1 vs Th2

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 25-31

  Hoerauf, Achim ^a   Brattig, Norbert ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN 4; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G3; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 19; INTERLEUKIN 20; INTERLEUKIN 22; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE RESISTANCE; EOSINOPHIL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MACROPHAGE; MICROFILARIA; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; REVIEW; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; CYTOKINES; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; TH1 CELLS; TH2 CELLS;

NEMATODA; ONCHOCERCA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS;

EID: 0036174745     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1471-4922(01)02173-0     Document Type: Review

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