How parasites react to the mouse immune system may help to shape their control

Friday, October 22, 2010 - 10:40 in Biology & Nature

How parasites use different life-history strategies to beat our immune systems may also provide insight into the control of diseases, such as elephantiasis and river blindness, which afflict some of the world's poorest communities in tropical South-East Asia, Africa and Central America. The research is due to be published next week in the online, open-access journal PLoS Biology...

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