What is it about?
Immunotherapy is a new promising approach in treatment of many disease including cancer and infectious disease. We have shown for the first time that the parasite itself can be used in the treatment of infection wich caused by own parasite.
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Why is it important?
In our work, we present a new strategy as a live system for treatment of parasit infection which there are'not any satisfing therapy for it. Gene therapy is one of other strategy which have been used successfully to treat parasite infection. The utility of enzyme activity in the assessing of treatment effectivity was another novelty wich introduced in our study.
Perspectives
In this article, a new viewpoint to infectious disease is presented and i hope it can encourage the researcher to apply such approaches to treatment of other disease including cancer and autoimmune diseases.
Hossein Montakhab-Yeganeh
Tarbiat Modares University
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Leishmania tarentolae
expressing CXCL-10 as an efficient immunotherapy approach against Leishmania major
-infected BALB/c mice, Parasite Immunology, September 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/pim.12461.
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