Immune responses during helminth-malaria co-infection: A pilot study in Ghanaian school children

Parasitology

Volumn 135, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 855-860

  Hartgers, Franca C ^a   Obeng, Benedicta B ^a,b   Boakye, Daniel ^b   Yazdanbakhsh, Maria ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b University of Ghana   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Co infection; Cytokines; Helminth; Immune responses; Malaria

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GHANA; HELIGMOSOMOIDES POLYGYRUS; HELMINTHIASIS; HOOKWORM; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MALARIA; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; PILOT STUDY; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHOOL CHILD; TRICHURIS; TROPICS; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GHANA; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; MALARIA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; VERMES;

EID: 46249098147     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182008000401     Document Type: Article

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