The effect of repeated leishmanin skin testing on the immune response to Leishmania antigen in healthy volunteers

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 565-567

  Satti, Iman ^a,b   El Hassan, Ahmed ^b   Khalil, El Tahir A G ^b   Akuffo, Hannah ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

Author keywords

Immune response; Leishmaniasis; Leishmanin skin test; Sudan

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGENICITY; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LEISHMANIA; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; SKIN TEST; VOLUNTEER;

PROTOZOA;

EID: 18744364677     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(02)90445-1     Document Type: Article

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