Cellular responses and cytokine production in post-treatment hookworm patients from an endemic area in Brazil

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 334-340

  Geiger, S M ^a,b,d   Massara, C L ^a   Bethony, J ^a,c   Soboslay, P T ^b   Correa Oliveira R ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cellular reactivity; Cytokines; Hookworm infection; Necator americanus schoolchildren

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 5; MEBENDAZOLE; PRAZIQUANTEL; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NECATOR AMERICANUS; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; SCHOOL CHILD; TH2 CELL;

ALBENDAZOLE; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; BRAZIL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CYTOKINES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-12; INTERLEUKIN-13; INTERLEUKIN-5; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MORBIDITY; NECATOR AMERICANUS; NECATORIASIS; PARASITE EGG COUNT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 2142711132     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.2004.02449.x     Document Type: Article

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