Cytokine control of parasite-specific anergy in human lymphatic filariasis. Preferential induction of a regulatory T helper type 2 lymphocyte subset.

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Published in J Clin Invest on October 01, 1993

Authors

C L King1, S Mahanty, V Kumaraswami, J S Abrams, J Regunathan, K Jayaraman, E A Ottesen, T B Nutman

Author Affiliations

1: Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.

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