Species-Specific Immunity Induced by Infection with Entamoeba histolytica and Entamoeba moshkovskii in Mice

Entamoeba histolytica, the parasitic amoeba responsible for amoebiasis, causes approximately 100,000 deaths every year. There is currently no vaccine against this parasite. We have previously shown that intracecal inoculation of E. histolytica trophozoites leads to chronic and non-healing cecitis i...

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Main Authors: Shimokawa, Chikako, Culleton, Richard, Imai, Takashi, Suzue, Kazutomo, Hirai, Makoto, Taniguchi, Tomoyo, Kobayashi, Seiki, Hisaeda, Hajime, Hamano, Shinjiro
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3843725/