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Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 520940, 8 pages
doi:10.1155/2011/520940
Review Article
Regulatory T Cells and Parasites
1Institute for Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, 72074 Tübingen, Germany
2Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Ladoke Akintola University, PMB 4400, Osogbo, Nigeria
Received 30 June 2011; Revised 19 September 2011; Accepted 4 October 2011
Academic Editor: Luis I. Terrazas
Copyright © 2011 TP. Velavan and Olusola Ojurongbe. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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