Transmission intensity affects both antigen-specific and nonspecific T-cell proliferative responses in Loa loa infection

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1475-1480

  Akue, Jean Paul ^a   Devaney, Eileen ^a  

^a CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉDICALES DE FRANCEVILLE   (Gabon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCANAVALIN A; CYTOKINE; MITOGENIC AGENT; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ;

ADULT; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CYTOKINE RELEASE; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; GABON; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LARVA; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKINS; LOIASIS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL POPULATION; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TREES;

EID: 0036180522     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.70.3.1475-1480.2002     Document Type: Article

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