title: Parasites and immunotherapy: with or against?
abstract: Immunotherapy is a sort of therapy in which antibody or antigen administrates to the patient in order to treat or reduce the severity of complications of disease. This kind of treatment practiced in a wide variety of diseases including infectious diseases, autoimmune disorders, cancers and allergy. Successful and unsuccessful immunotherapeutic strategies have been practiced in variety of parasitic infections. On the other hand parasites or parasite antigens have also been considered for immunotherapy against other diseases such as cancer, asthma and multiple sclerosis. In this paper immunotherapy against common parasitic infections, and also immunotherapy of cancer, asthma and multiple sclerosis with parasites or parasite antigens have been reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Cancer Prevention Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
authors.forename: Hossein
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yousofi Darani
authors.affiliation: Student Research Committee, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord, Iran.
authors.forename: Morteza
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yousefi
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Microbiology, School of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran.
authors.forename: Marzieh
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Safari
authors.affiliation: Department of Parasitology and Mycology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
authors.forename: Rasool
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jafari
keywords: Asthma; Cancer; Immunotherapy; Multiple Sclerosis; Parasite; Parasitic diseases