Human immune responses to infective stage larval-specific chitinase of filarial parasite, Onchocerca volvulus, Ov-CHI-1

Filaria Journal

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Wu, Yang ^a   Egerton, Gillian ^a   McCarthy, James S ^b   Nutman, Thomas B ^c   Bianco, Albert E ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITINASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G3; PARASITE ANTIBODY; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

AFRICA; AGE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CAMEROON; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL ASSAY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DENSITY; ECUADOR; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROFILARIA; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; SKIN NODULE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE; TOGO;

EID: 2942549043     PISSN: 14752883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2883-2-6     Document Type: Article

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