Advances in helminth immunology: Optimism for future vaccine design?

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 288-293

  Harris, Nicola L ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 21; INTERLEUKIN 25; INTERLEUKIN 33; INTERLEUKIN 4; THYMIC STROMAL LYMPHOPOIETIN;

ANEMIA; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DESIGN; GROWTH RETARDATION; HELIGMOSOMOIDES POLYGYRUS; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INFECTION CONTROL; MALNUTRITION; NIPPOSTRONGYLUS BRASILIENSIS; NONHUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; REINFECTION; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; REVIEW; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; TUBERCULOSIS; VACCINATION;

ANIMALS; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; VACCINES;

VERMES;

EID: 79959328529     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: 14715007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2011.03.010     Document Type: Review

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