Prevention and Immunotherapy of Secondary Murine Alveolar Echinococcosis Employing Recombinant EmP29 Antigen.

• Main Authors: Ghalia Boubaker (Author), Andrew Hemphill (Author), Cristina Olivia Huber (Author), Markus Spiliotis (Author), Hamouda Babba (Author), Bruno Gottstein (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is caused by infection with the larval stage of the tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis. An increasing understanding of immunological events that account for the metacestode survival in human and murine AE infection prompted us to undertake explorative experiments tackl...