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Blood feeding by the Rocky Mountain spotted fever vector, Dermacentor andersoni, induces interleukin-4 expression by cognate antigen responding CD4(+ )T cells

BACKGROUND: Tick modulation of host defenses facilitates both blood feeding and pathogen transmission. Several tick species deviate host T cell responses toward a Th2 cytokine profile. The majority of studies of modulation of T cell cytokine expression by ticks were performed with lymphocytes from i...

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Autores principales: Boppana, Venkata D, Thangamani, Saravanan, Alarcon-Chaidez, Francisco J, Adler, Adam J, Wikel, Stephen K
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2764639/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19814808
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-2-47