Background: Filarial infections continue to pose a great challenge in endemic countries. One of the central goals in the fight against human filarial infections is the development of strategies that will lead to the inhibition of microfilariae (mf) transmission. Keeping mf under a certain threshold within endemic populations will stop transmission and eliminate the infection.
Method: A narrative review was carried out to identify the possibilities and limitations of exploring the use of eosinophil responses as an anti-filarial vaccine, and biomarker for the detection of filarial infections. An extensive literature search was performed in online scientific databases including PubMed Central, PubMed, BioMed Central, with the use of predefined search terms.
Results: A better understanding of the parasite-host interactions will lead to the development of improved and better treatment or vaccine strategies that could eliminate filariasis as soon as possible. Highlighted in this review is the explorative use of eosinophil-producing CLC/Galectin-10 as a potential biomarker for filarial infections. Also discussed are some genes, and pathways involved in eosinophil recruitments that could be explored for anti-filarial vaccine development.
Conclusion: In this short communication, we discuss how eosinophil-regulated genes, pathways, and networks could be critical in providing more information on how reliably a front-line immune player could be exploited for anti-filarial vaccine development and early infection biomarker.
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