| antibody and cytokine responses in dracunculus medinensis patients at distinct states of infection. | dracunculiasis is a promising candidate for eradication, but transmission of dracunculus medinensis and recrudescence of the disease have been observed repeatedly. in the present investigation, the d. medinensis-specific cellular cytokine response profiles and the parasite-specific antibody subclass reactivity were evaluated in dracunculiasis patients at distinct states of infection. analysis of the cellular cytokine response in dracunculiasis patients disclosed a d. medinensis antigen-specific ... | 2008 | 18258273 |