Development of a vaccine strategy against human and bovine schistosomiasis: background and update

Schistosomiasis is a chronic and debilitating parasitic disease that affects over 200 million people throughout the world and causes about 500,000 deaths annually. Two specific characteristics of schistosome infection are of primordial importance to the development of a vaccine: schistosomes do not...

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Main Authors: André Capron, Gilles Riveau, Jean-Marie Grzych, Denis Boulanger, Monique Capron, Raymond Pierce
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde 1995-04-01
Series:Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz.
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02761995000200019