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. 1993 Nov;9(11):418-21.
doi: 10.1016/0169-4758(93)90051-g.

Maternal filarial infection - a persistent risk factor for microfilaremia in offspring?

A W Hightower  1 , P J Lammie, M L Eberhard
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Maternal filarial infection - a persistent risk factor for microfilaremia in offspring?

A W Hightower et al. Parasitol Today. 1993 Nov.

Abstract

The observation that children born to mothers that are infected with Wuchereria bancrofti ore more susceptible to filarial infection than those born to uninfected mothers, raises many questions, particularly regarding immune mechanisms. In this article, Allen Hightower, Patrick Lommie and Mark Eberhard discuss these issues and their implications for the epidemiology of filarial infection.

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