Persistent Infections by Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis

Here we review the phenomenon of persistency in Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis infections. In other Leishmania species where appropriate animal models exist, considerable advances in the understanding of basic immunologic mechanisms of persistency have been made; for a review see Aebisher (1994). On the contrary, the evidences of persistence in infections with L. braziliensis rest on studies of human clinical cases many of which we summarized and discussed in this work

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Format: Digital revista
Language:English
Published: Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde 1997
Online Access:http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02761997000300006
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