Th2 Cytokines Are Associated with Reduced Worm Burdens in a Human Intestinal Helminth Infection

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 188, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1768-1775

  Turner, Joseph D ^a   Faulkner, Helen ^a   Kamgno, Joseph ^c   Cormont, Frances ^d   Van Snick, Jacques ^d   Else, Kathryn J ^b   Grencis, Richard K ^b   Behnke, Jerzy M ^a   Boussinesq, Michel ^b   Bradley, Janette E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE PASTEUR DU CAMEROUN   (Cameroon)

^d LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 9; MITOGENIC AGENT; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BLOOD CULTURE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; LYMPHOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TH2 CELL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 0346256757     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/379370     Document Type: Article

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