title: Exploitation of immune and other defence mechanisms by parasites: an overview.
abstract: Parasites have established numerous strategies for evading host immunity. Such tactics promote persistence and chronicity-factors that favour completion of the life cycle and transmission to vectors or the environment. This volume explores many facets of the interaction between host and parasite that will be critical to the development of meaningful vaccines capable of interrupting what has been accomplished over centuries of co-evolution.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California San Francisco 94143-0654, USA.
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Locksley
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016207:Cytokines / Q000276:immunology; D006790:Host-Parasite Interactions; D006801:Humans; D007109:Immunity; D010271:Parasites / Q000254:growth & development / Q000276:immunology* / Q000472:pathogenicity / Q000502:physiology; D010272:Parasitic Diseases / Q000276:immunology* / Q000469:parasitology; D018089:Superantigens / Q000276:immunology; D013601:T-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D016207:Cytokines; D018089:Superantigens