Distribution of Peripheral Memory T Follicular Helper Cells in Patients with Schistosomiasis Japonica.

• Main Authors: Xiaojun Chen (Author), Wei Li (Author), Yang Zhang (Author), Xian Song (Author), Lei Xu (Author), Zhipeng Xu (Author), Sha Zhou (Author), Jifeng Zhu (Author), Xin Jin (Author), Feng Liu (Author), Gengxin Chen (Author), Chuan Su (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND:Schistosomiasis is a helminthic disease that affects more than 200 million people. An effective vaccine would be a major step towards eliminating the disease. Studies suggest that T follicular helper (Tfh) cells provide help to B cells to generate the long-term humoral immunity, which wou...