Specific anti-glycan antibodies are sustained during and after parasite clearance in Schistosoma japonicum-infected rhesus macaques.

• Glavni autori: Y Y Michelle Yang (Autor), Xiao Hong Li (Autor), Katarzyna Brzezicka (Autor), Niels-Christian Reichardt (Autor), R Alan Wilson (Autor), Angela van Diepen (Autor), Cornelis H Hokke (Autor)
• Format: Knjiga
• Izdano: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-02-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND:Human immunity to Schistosoma infection requires many years of exposure, and multiple infections and treatments to develop. Unlike humans, rhesus macaques clear an established schistosome infection naturally at the same time acquiring immunity towards re-infection. In macaques, schistosom...