Impact of filarial infections on coincident intracellular pathogens: Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Plasmodium falciparum

Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 231-238

  Metenou, Simon ^a   Babu, Subash ^b   Nutman, Thomas B ^a  

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

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FASHION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

filarial infections; immunomodulation; malaria; tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN 4; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 23; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; PROGRAMMED DEATH 1 RECEPTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; BCG VACCINATION; BRUGIA MALAYI; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; CYTOKINE RESPONSE; FILARIASIS; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOGENICITY; IMMUNOMODULATION; LEPROSY; LOA LOA; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; MALARIA; MANSONELLA PERSTANS; MIXED INFECTION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NIPPOSTRONGYLUS BRASILIENSIS; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVIEW; SKIN TEST; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TUBERCULOSIS; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

ANIMALS; COINFECTION; CYTOKINES; FILARIASIS; FILARIOIDEA; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84859921260     PISSN: 1746630X     EISSN: 17466318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/COH.0b013e3283522c3d     Document Type: Review

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