Exposure to hookworms in patients with Crohn's disease: A case-control study

Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 923-930

  Kabeerdoss, J ^a   Pugazhendhi, S ^a   Subramanian, V ^b   Binder, H J ^c   Ramakrishna, B S ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b Wolfson Digestive Diseases Centre   (United Kingdom)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD3 ANTIGEN; CD69 ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOINFLAMMATORY DISEASE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CD3+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; CROSS REACTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY T LYMPHOCYTE; PARASITOSIS; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STATUS; STOMACH PROTECTION; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROHN DISEASE; FEMALE; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; HUMANS; HYGIENE HYPOTHESIS; INTERFERON-GAMMA RELEASE TESTS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; URBAN HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053213744     PISSN: 02692813     EISSN: 13652036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2036.2011.04824.x     Document Type: Article

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