Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Volume 98, Issue 9 , Pages 514-519 , September 2004

Human schistosomiasis mansoni: intensity of infection differentially affects the production of interleukin-10, interferon-γ and interleukin-13 by soluble egg antigen or adult worm antigen stimulated cultures

  • Alda M.S Silveira

      Affiliations

    • Laboratório de Imunologia, Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde. Universidade Vale do Rio Doce, Governador Valadares, Brazil
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  • Giovanni Gazzinelli

      Affiliations

    • Santa Casa de Misericódia, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
    • Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Av. Augusto de Lima 1715, 30190-002 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
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  • Lúcia F Alves-Oliveira

      Affiliations

    • Laboratório de Imunologia, Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde. Universidade Vale do Rio Doce, Governador Valadares, Brazil
    • ,
  • Jeffrey Bethony

      Affiliations

    • Department of Microbiology and Tropical Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
    • ,
  • Andrea Gazzinelli

      Affiliations

    • Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
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  • Claudia Carvalho-Queiroz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Buffalo, New York, USA
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  • Maria Carolina B Alvarez

      Affiliations

    • Santa Casa de Misericódia, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
    • ,
  • Francisco C Lima-Silva

      Affiliations

    • Santa Casa de Misericódia, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
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  • Aluizio Prata

      Affiliations

    • Medicina Tropical, Faculdade de Medicina do Triângulo Mineiro, Uberaba, MG, Brazil
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  • Philip T LoVerde

      Affiliations

    • Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Buffalo, New York, USA
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  • Rodrigo Correa-Oliveira

      Affiliations

    • Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Av. Augusto de Lima 1715, 30190-002 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +55-31-3295-3566; fax: +55-31-3295-3115.

Received 1 July 2003 ,Revised 10 November 2003 ,Accepted 20 November 2003.

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PII: S0035-9203(04)00081-1

doi: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2003.11.009

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Volume 98, Issue 9 , Pages 514-519 , September 2004

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