Mechanisms of Immune Evasion in Leishmaniasis

CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells control Leishmania major persistence and immunity

Yasmine Belkaid, Ciriaco A. Piccirillo, Susana Méndez et al. · Nature · 2002 · 1.7K citations

Life Sciences, Immunology, Infectious Diseases +10

Natural killer cells are a source of interferon gamma that drives differentiation of CD4+ T cell subsets and induces early resistance to Leishmania major in mice.

Tanya M. Scharton, Phillip Scott · The Journal of Experimental Medicine · 1993 · 608 citations · Full text

Veterinary Medicine, Immunology, Infectious Diseases +17

<i>Leishmania amazonensis</i> promastigotes induce and are killed by neutrophil extracellular traps

Anderson B. Guimarães-Costa, Michelle T. C. Nascimento, Giselle Silva Froment et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2009 · 543 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Immunology, Microbiology +17

Receptors for C3b and C3bi promote phagocytosis but not the release of toxic oxygen from human phagocytes.

Samuel D. Wright, Samuel C. Silverstein · The Journal of Experimental Medicine · 1983 · 491 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Cell Biology, Immunology +15

Genetically resistant mice lacking interleukin‐12 are susceptible to infection with <i>Leishmania major</i> and mount a polarized Th2 cell response

Frank Mattner, Jeanne Magram, Jessica Ferrante et al. · European Journal of Immunology · 1996 · 471 citations

Life Sciences, Immunology, Infectious Diseases +17