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Immuno-epidemiology of human Schistosoma haematobium infection: preferential IgG3 antibody responsiveness to a recombinant antigen dependent on age and parasite burden

BACKGROUND: Schistosomiasis is a major parasitic disease affecting over 200 million people in the developing world with a further 400 million people at risk of infection. The aim of this study was to identify a single antigen from adult Schistosoma haematobium worms and subsequently use this antigen...

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Autores principales: Mutapi, Francisca, Mduluza, Takafira, Gomez-Escobar, Natalia, Gregory, William F, Fernandez, Cecilia, Midzi, Nicholas, Maizels, Rick M
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1523344/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16764709
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-6-96