Immunosuppression in paracoccidioidomycosis: T cell hyporesponsiveness to two Paracoccidioides brasiliensis glycoproteins that elicit strong humoral immune response

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 175, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1263-1267

  Benard, Gil ^a   José, Maria ^b   Mendes Giannini, S ^b   Juvenale, Michelangelo ^b   Miranda, Elaine T ^b   Duarte, Alberto J S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGUS ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN PURIFICATION; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AMERICAN BLASTOMYCOSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

EID: 16944363331     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/593694     Document Type: Article

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