Multiple Exposures to Ascaris suum Induce Tissue Injury and Mixed Th2/Th17 Immune Response in Mice.

• Main Authors: Denise Silva Nogueira (Author), Pedro Henrique Gazzinelli-Guimarães (Author), Fernando Sérgio Barbosa (Author), Nathália Maria Resende (Author), Caroline Cavalcanti Silva (Author), Luciana Maria de Oliveira (Author), Chiara Cássia Oliveira Amorim (Author), Fabrício Marcus Silva Oliveira (Author), Matheus Silvério Mattos (Author), Lucas Rocha Kraemer (Author), Marcelo Vidigal Caliari (Author), Soraya Gaze (Author), Lilian Lacerda Bueno (Author), Remo Castro Russo (Author), Ricardo Toshio Fujiwara (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Ascaris spp. infection affects 800 million people worldwide, and half of the world population is currently at risk of infection. Recurrent reinfection in humans is mostly due to the simplicity of the parasite life cycle, but the impact of multiple exposures to the biology of the infection and the co...