IMMUNOLOGICAL RESPONSE AND THE PROBABILITY OF PRODUCTION OF VACCINE FOR SCHISTOSOME PARASITES. REVIEW ARTICLE
Refaat M. A. Khalifa1, Nada A. Elnadi2, Eman K. Omran2 and Reham A. Abdel-Tawab2
Departments of Parasitology1, Faculty of medicine, Assiut University &Medical parasitology2, Faculty of medicine, Sohag University
The present work presents the immunological aspects of schistosomes discussing the different host defense strategies against infection which might be of utmost importance in our understanding and evaluating the previous attempts conducted mainly in the second half of the last century to attain the elusive goal of a schistosome vaccine as well as the recent trials to realize the humanity dream of a reliable anti-schistosome vaccine foundation. Moreover, the present workers' comments on the potency and efficiency of different vaccine candidates as well as our recommendations for making this dream comes true are shown in bold phrases.
December 2011