Taenia solium cysticercosis: Host-parasite interactions and the immune response

Chemical Immunology

Volumn 66, Issue , 1997, Pages 209-230

  White Jr , A Clinton ^a   Robinson, Prema ^b   Kuhn, Raymond ^b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; COMPLEMENT; CORTICOSTEROID; CYTOKINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PARAMYOSIN; POLYSACCHARIDE SULFATE; PRAZIQUANTEL; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CYSTICERCOSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GRANULOCYTE; HELPER CELL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION CONTROL; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE; TAENIA SOLIUM;

ADULT; AFRICA; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ASIA; BRAIN; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM PROTEINS; CYSTICERCOSIS; CYSTICERCUS; CYTOKINES; FOOD PARASITOLOGY; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; INFLAMMATION; LATIN AMERICA; MEAT; PREVALENCE; SEIZURES; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TAENIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1842413644     PISSN: 10150145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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