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Exploitation of immune and other defence mechanisms by parasites: an overview

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1997

R. M. LOCKSLEY
R. M. LOCKSLEY
Affiliation:
Departments of Medicine and Microbiology/Immunology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143-0654, USA
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Abstract

Parasites have established numerous strategies for evading host immunity. Such tactics promote persistence and chronicity – factors that favour completion of the life cycle and transmission to vectors or the environment. This volume explores many facets of the interaction between host and parasite that will be critical to the development of meaningful vaccines capable of interrupting what has been accomplished over centuries of co-evolution.

Keywords

Parasite immunityT cellscytokinessuperantigens
Type
Research Article
Information
Parasitology , Volume 115 , Issue 7 , December 1997 , pp. 5 - 7
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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