Immunity, morbidity and immunoepidemiology in parasite infections

Parasite Immunology

Volumn 26, Issue 11-12, 2004, Pages 425-428

  Dunne, D W ^a   Riley, E M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; EDITORIAL; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOBIOLOGY; IMMUNOEPIDEMIOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; METAZOON; MORBIDITY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; TRICHURIS; VACCINATION;

ANIMALS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MORBIDITY; PARASITES; PARASITIC DISEASES;

EID: 16244374286     PISSN: 01419838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0141-9838.2004.00737.x     Document Type: Editorial

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