Comment on "Regulation of immunity during visceral Leishmania infection" and further discussions about the role of antibodies in infections with Leishmania

Luiz Gustavo Gardinassi; Isabel Kinney Ferreira de Miranda Santos

doi:10.1186/s13071-016-1669-0

Comment on "Regulation of immunity during visceral Leishmania infection" and further discussions about the role of antibodies in infections with Leishmania

Parasit Vectors. 2016 Jul 7;9(1):386. doi: 10.1186/s13071-016-1669-0.

Authors

Luiz Gustavo Gardinassi¹, Isabel Kinney Ferreira de Miranda Santos²

Affiliations

¹ Departamento de Bioquímica e Imunologia, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil. gustavogardinassi@usp.br.
² Departamento de Bioquímica e Imunologia, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil. imsantos@fmrp.usp.br.

Abstract

Comments on the article "Regulation of immunity during visceral Leishmania infection" published in Parasites & Vectors 2016, 9:118, and further discussions about the role of antibodies in infections with Leishmania.

Keywords: Antibodies; Fc N-glycosylation; Fc receptors; Immunopathology; Leishmaniasis; Protection.

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Comment

MeSH terms

Antibodies
Humans
Immunity
Leishmania / immunology*
Leishmaniasis, Visceral / immunology*

Substances

Antibodies