Human genetics and resistance to parasitic infection

Parasite Immunology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 221-224

  Shaw, M A ^a   Quinnell, R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; AUTOIMMUNITY; CHAGAS DISEASE; EDITORIAL; GENE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENETICS; INFECTION RESISTANCE; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; TH2 CELL; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; PARASITES; PARASITIC DISEASES;

EID: 64549103877     PISSN: 01419838     EISSN: 13653024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3024.2009.01107.x     Document Type: Editorial

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