Clinical and Developmental Immunology
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 374696, 4 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/374696
Research Article

Does Toxoplasma gondii Infection Affect the Levels of IgE and Cytokines (IL-5, IL-6, IL-10, IL-12, and TNF-alpha)?

Joanna Matowicka-Karna, Violetta Dymicka-Piekarska, and Halina Kemona

Department of Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics, Medical University of Bialystok, J. Waszyngton'a 15A, 15-269 Bialystok, Poland

Received 23 December 2008; Accepted 18 March 2009

Academic Editor: Bernhard Fleischer

Copyright © 2009 Joanna Matowicka-Karna et al. 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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