ST2 Deficiency Does Not Impair Type 2 Immune Responses during Chronic Filarial Infection but Leads to an Increased Microfilaremia Due to an Impaired Splenic Microfilarial Clearance

• Jesuthas Ajendra,

  Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

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• Sabine Specht,

  Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

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• Anna-Lena Neumann,

  Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

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• Fabian Gondorf,

  Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

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• David Schmidt,

  Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

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• Katrin Gentil,

  Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

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• Wolfgang H. Hoffmann,

  Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

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• Mark J. Taylor,

  Affiliation Filariasis Research Laboratory, Department of Parasitology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Achim Hoerauf,

  Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

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• Marc P. Hübner

  * E-mail: huebner@microbiology-bonn.de

  Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

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