The presence or absence of active infection, not clinical status, is most closely associated with cytokine responses in lymphatic filariasis

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 173, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1453-1459

  De Almeida, Adriana B ^a,b   Maia e Silva, Maria Carmelita ^a   Maciel, Maria Amélia ^a   Freedman, David O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD8 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; MESSENGER RNA; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM INFECTION; MALE; MICROFILARIASIS; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 19244362019     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/173.6.1453     Document Type: Article

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