Immune Regulation during Chronic Visceral Leishmaniasis
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Immune Regulation during Chronic Visceral Leishmaniasis
Visceral leishmaniasis is a chronic parasitic disease associated with severe immune dysfunction. Treatment options are limited to relatively toxic drugs, and there is no vaccine for humans available. Hence, there is an urgent need to better understand immune responses following infection with Leishmania species by studying animal models of disease and clinical samples from patients. Here, we re...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1935-2735
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002914