Heritable factors play a major role in determining host responses to wuchereria bancrofti infection in an isolated south pacific island population

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 200, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1271-1278

  Cuenco, Karen T ^a   Ottesen, Eric A ^b   Williams, Steven A ^c   Nutman, Thomas B ^d   Steel, Cathy ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b Lymphatic Filariasis Support Center   (United States)

^c SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BANCROFTIAN FILARIASIS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EOSINOPHIL; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; FEMALE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROFILARIA (NEMATODE LARVA); POLYNESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; CHILD; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYNESIA; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349414498     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/605844     Document Type: Article

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