Seeking the ghost of worms past. Woolhouse, M. E. & Hagan, P. Nature medicine, 5(11):1225--1227, November, 1999.
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The mechanisms of protective immunity to parasite infections in humans are still elusive. Here, Woolhouse and Hagan discuss new evidence suggesting that the extremely slow development of acquired immunity to human schistosomes may depend on exposure to antigens from these worms after they die.
@article{woolhouse_seeking_1999,
	title = {Seeking the ghost of worms past.},
	volume = {5},
	issn = {1078-8956 1078-8956},
	doi = {10.1038/15169},
	abstract = {The mechanisms of protective immunity to parasite infections in humans are still  elusive. Here, Woolhouse and Hagan discuss new evidence suggesting that the extremely slow development of acquired immunity to human schistosomes may depend  on exposure to antigens from these worms after they die.},
	language = {eng},
	number = {11},
	journal = {Nature medicine},
	author = {Woolhouse, M. E. and Hagan, P.},
	month = nov,
	year = {1999},
	pmid = {10545976},
	keywords = {Adult, Age Factors, Animals, Child, Humans, Immunity, Innate, Immunocompetence, Immunoglobulins/biosynthesis, Interleukins/biosynthesis, Microscopy, Electron, Scanning, Schistosoma/ultrastructure, Schistosomiasis/*immunology/parasitology},
	pages = {1225--1227}
}

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