Echinococcus multilocularis: inflammatory and regulatory chemokine responses in patients with progressive, stable and cured alveolar echinococcosis.

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Published in Exp Parasitol on April 14, 2008

Authors

Lars Kocherscheidt1, Ann-Katrin Flakowski, Beate Grüner, David M Hamm, Klaus Dietz, Peter Kern, Peter T Soboslay

Author Affiliations

1: Institute for Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Wilhelmstrasse 27, 72074 Tübingen, Germany.

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