Short report: Concurrent infection with Heligmosomoides polygyrus modulates murine host response against Plasmodium berghei ANKA infection

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 819-822

  Tetsutani, Kohhei ^a   Ishiwata, Kenji ^b   Torii, Motomi ^c   Hamano, Shinjiro ^a   Hisaeda, Hajime ^a   Himeno, Kunisuke ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN MALARIA; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CONCURRENT INFECTION; DISEASE COURSE; HELIGMOSOMOIDES POLYGYRUS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IMMUNITY; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI INFECTION; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; FECES; IMMUNOLOGY; MALARIA; NEMATOSPIROIDES DUBIUS; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; STRONGYLE INFECTION; TIME;

HELIGMOSOMOIDES POLYGYRUS; MURINAE; MUS; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI;

ANIMALS; FECES; MALARIA, CEREBRAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEMATOSPIROIDES DUBIUS; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 57649195878     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2008.79.819     Document Type: Article

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