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PARASITOLOGY TODAY
Volume 16, Issue 2, Pages 62-67Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/S0169-4758(99)01591-4
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In this article, Bernardo Reina-San-Martin, Alain Cosson and Paola Minoprio summarize the marked alternations ill the immune system functions after infection that might account for rite poor success of effective parasite vaccine devel- opment. Many of the studies on oligoclonal B- and T-cell responses to parasite antigens aiming at vaccination strategies would seem to ignore more general, and perhaps fundamental, aspects of parasite-immune system interactions. In essen ce, because of its consequences on immunopathology and parasite escape, the authors ascribe a central importance in the pathogenesis of parasitic diseases to the 'nonspecific' polyclonal lymphocyte activation that occurs during infection. Hence, novel targets and strategies for immune intervention should be considered.
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