Natural History of the Immune Response to Human Helminth Infections

Natural History of the Immune Response to Human Helminth Infections 

Helminth infections have complex life cycles that involve several developmental stages within the human host. The immune response to helminth parasites involves multiple effector pathways directed against different parasite stages that generally occur simultaneously within the same host. A useful paradigm with which to understand the immune response to helminth infections, and the changes that these responses undergo over time, is to divide helminth infections into acute and chronic. 

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