Summary: Vaccination against filarial nematodes with irradiated
larvae provides long-term protection against the third larval
stage but not against subsequent life cycle stages
Simon A. Babayan a,b
, Tarik Attout a
, Anjanette Harris b
, Matthew D. Taylor b
,
Laetitia Le Goff b
, Phat. N. Vuong c,1
, Laurent Re´nia d
, Judith E. Allen b
, Odile Bain a,
*
a
Parasitologie Compare´e et Mode`les Expe´rimentaux, Muse´um National d'Histoire Naturelle, 75005 Paris, France
b
Institutes of Evolution and Immunology and Infection Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK
c
Laboratoire de Cytologie et Anatomopathologie, Ho^pital St Michel, Paris, France

Source: Allen, Judith - School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh

Collections: Biology and Medicine