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Published on: November 17, 2012
1Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh Easter Bush, Roslin, Midlothian EH25 9RG mark.woolhouse@ed.ac.uk.
Nature Medicine
|November 5, 1999
Abstract:
The mechanisms of protective immunity to parasite infections in humans are still elusive. Here, Woolhouse and Hagan discuss new evidence suggesting that the extremely slow development of acquired immunity to human schistosomes may depend on exposure to antigens from these worms after they die.

