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Necator americanus Infection: A Possible Cause of Altered Dendritic Cell Differentiation and Eosinophil Profile in Chronically Infected Individuals

BACKGROUND: Hookworms survive for several years (5 to 7 years) in the host lumen, inducing a robust but largely ineffective immune response. Among the most striking aspects of the immune response to hookworm (as with many other helminths) is the ablation of parasite-specific T cell proliferative res...

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Autores principales: Fujiwara, Ricardo T., Cançado, Guilherme G. L., Freitas, Paula A., Santiago, Helton C., Massara, Cristiano Lara, Carvalho, Omar dos Santos, Corrêa-Oliveira, Rodrigo, Geiger, Stefan M., Bethony, Jeffrey
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2654967/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19308259
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0000399