T cell responses to crude and defined leishmanial antigens in patients from the lower Amazon region of Brazil infected with different species of Leishmania of the subgenera Leishmania and Viannia

Parasite Immunology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 19-26

  Silveira, F T ^a   Blackwell, J M ^b   Ishikawa, E A ^a   Braga, R ^a   Shaw, J J ^a   Quinnell, R J ^c,e   Soong, L ^d   Kima, P ^d   McMahon Pratt, D ^d   Black, G F ^b   Shaw, M A ^b,e  

^a INSTITUTO EVANDRO CHAGAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cutaneous leishmaniasis; T cell therapy

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOAL VACCINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPITOPE MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOGENICITY; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SKIN TEST; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; VACCINE PRODUCTION;

LEISHMANIA AMAZONENSIS; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA PIFANOI; PROTOZOA; VIANNIA;

EID: 15644370348     PISSN: 01419838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3024.1998.t01-1-00126.x     Document Type: Article

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