Repeated Treatments with Albendazole Enhance Th2 Responses toAscaris Lumbricoides,but Not to Aeroallergens, in Children from Rural Communities in the Tropics
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- 15 October 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Journal of Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 198 (8) , 1237-1242
- https://doi.org/10.1086/591945
Abstract
Geohelminth infections are associated with modulation of immunity to parasite antigens and aeroallergens. To investigate the possibility that this moKeywords
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