Intensity of intestinal infection with multiple worm species is related to regulatory cytokine output and immune hyporesponsiveness

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 197, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1204-1212

  Turner, Joseph D ^a,d   Jackson, Joseph A ^a   Faulkner, Helen ^a   Behnke, Jerzy ^a   Else, Kathryn J ^b   Kamgno, Joseph ^c   Boussinesq, Michel ^c,e   Bradley, Janette E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE PASTEUR DU CAMEROUN   (Cameroon)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 4; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IMMUNOREGULATION; INTESTINE INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SCHOOL CHILD; TRICHURIS; WORM INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; CAMEROON; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-4; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; NEMATODA; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PREVALENCE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 42949164952     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/586717     Document Type: Article

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