Siberian State Medical University, Tomsk, Russia
The characteristics of the functional status of peripheral blood monocytes/macrophages in patients with Ixodes tick-borne acute borreliosis accompanied by opisthorchiasis invasion were studied. The study revealed a decrease in the phagocytic activity of monocytes and in the level of expression of cell receptors Fcγ with the expression of cell receptors C3β being normal.
Zh. Mikrobiol. (Moscow), 2006, No. 2, P. 81—83