Worms and malaria: Noisy nuisances and silent benefits

Parasite Immunology

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 391-393

  Nacher, Mathieu ^a,b,c  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

CD23; Ecology; Gametocytes; Helminths; Incidence; Nitric oxide; Severe malaria

Indexed keywords

CD23 ANTIGEN; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3D RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; ECOSYSTEM; HELMINTH; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INTESTINE INFECTION; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALS; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ANIMALIA; ASCARIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; NEMATODA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA; VERMES;

EID: 0036421098     PISSN: 01419838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3024.2002.00470.x     Document Type: Review

References (28)

1. Clark IA, Allison AC, Cox FE. Protection of mice against Babesia and Plasmodium with BCG. Nature 1976; 259: 309-311.
2. Clark IA, Cox FE, Allison AC. Protection of mice against Babesia spp., Plasmodium spp. with killed Corynebacterium parvum. Parasitology 1977; 74: 9-18.
3. Eckwalanga M, Marussig M, Tavares MD et al. Murine AIDS protects mice against experimental cerebral malaria: Down-regulation by interleukin 10 of a T-helper type 1 CD4+ cell-mediated pathology. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1994; 91: 8097-8101.
4. Christensen NO, Nansen P, Fagbemi BO, Monrad J. Heterologous antagonistic and synergistic interactions between helminths and between helminths and protozoans in concurrent experimental infection of mammalian hosts. Parasitol Res 1987; 73: 387-410.
5. Rousseau D, Le Fichoux Y, Stien X, Suffia I, Ferrua B, Kubar J. Progression of visceral leishmaniasis due to Leishmania infantum. BALB/c mice is markedly slowed by prior infection with Trichinella spiralis. Infect Immun 1997; 65: 4978-4983.
6. Yan Y, Inuo G, Akao N, Tsukidate S, Fujita K. Down-regulation of murine susceptibility to cerebral malaria by inoculation with third-stage larvae of the filarial nematode Brugia pahangi. Parasitology 1997; 114: 333-338.
7. Thomas FPJF, Guegan Y, Michalakis Y, Renaud F. Are there pros as well as cons to being parasitized. Parasitol Today 2000; 16: 533-536.
8. Murray MJ, Murray AB, Murray MB, Murray CJ. Parotid enlargement, forehead edema, and suppression of malaria as nutritional consequences of ascariasis. Am J Clin Nutrit 1977; 30: 2117-2121.
9. Murray J, Murray A, Murray M, Murray C. The biological suppression of malaria: An ecological and nutritional interrelationship of a host and two parasites. Am J Clin Nutrit 1978; 31: 1363-1366.
10. Nacher M, Gay F, Singhasivanon P et al. Ascaris lumbricoides infection is associated with protection from cerebral malaria. Parasite Immunol 2000; 22: 107-113.
11. Nacher M, Singhasivanon P, Vannaphan S et al. Socio-economic and environmental protective/risk factors for severe malaria in Thailand. Acta Tropica 2001; 78: 139-146.
12. Dugas B, Mossalayi MD, Damais C, Kolb JP. Nitric oxide production by human monocytes: Evidence for a role of CD23. Immunol Today 1995; 16: 574-580.
13. Maeno Y, Steketee RW, Nagatake T et al. Immunoglobulin complex deposits in Plasmodium falciparum-infected placentas from Malawi and Papua New Guinea. Am J Trop Med Hygiene 1993; 49: 574-580.
14. Perlmann P, Perlmann H, Flyg BW et al. Immunoglobulin E, a pathogenic factor in Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Infect Immun 1997; 65: 116-121.
15. Maeno Y, Perlmann P, Perlmann H et al. IgE deposition in brain microvessels and on parasitized erythrocytes from cerebral malaria patients. Am J Trop Med Hygiene 2000; 63: 128-132.
16. Nacher M, Singhasivanon P, Gay F, Silachamroon U, Looareesuwan S. Case-control studies on host factors in severe malaria. Trends Parasitol 2001; 17: 253-254.
17. Gupta S, Hill AV, Kwiatkowski D, Greenwood AM, Greenwood BM, Day KP. Parasite virulence and disease patterns in Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1994; 91: 3715-3719.
18. Nacher M, Singhasivanon P, Gay F, Silachomroon U, Phumratanaprapin W, Loareesuwan S. Contemporaneous and successive mixed Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax infections are associated with Ascaris lumbricoides: An immunomodulating effect? J Parasitol 2001; 87: 912-915.
19. Hastings IM, Wedgewood-Oppenheim B. Sex, strains and virulence. Parasitol Today 1997; 13: 375-383.
20. Bentwich Z, Weisman Z, Moroz C, Bar-Yehuda S, Kalinkovich A. Immune dysregulation in Ethiopian immigrants in Israel: Relevance to helminth infections? Clin Exp Immunol 1996; 103: 239-243.
21. Plebanski M, Hill AV. The immunology of malaria infection. Curr Opin Immunol 2000; 12: 437-441.
22. Kamhawi S, Belkaid Y, Modi G, Rowton E, Sacks D. Protection against cutaneous leishmaniasis resulting from bites of uninfected sand flies. Science 2000; 290: 1351-1354.
23. Peng Z, Arthur G, Rector ES, Kierek-Jaszczuk D, Simons FE, Becker AB. Heterogeneity of polyclonal IgE characterized by differential charge, affinity to protein A, and antigenicity. J Allergy Clin Immunol 1997; 100: 87-95.
24. Bentwich Z, Kalinkovich A, Weisman Z, Borkow G, Beyers N, Beyers AD. Can eradication of helminthic infections change the face of AIDS and tuberculosis? Immunol Today 1999; 20: 485-487.
25. Sabin EA, Araujo MI, Carvalho EM, Pearce EJ. Impairment of tetanus toxoid-specific Th1-like immune responses in humans infected with Schistosoma mansoni. J Infect Dis 1996; 173: 269-272.
26. Nacher M. Malaria vaccine trials in a wormy world. Trends Parasitol 2001; 17: 563-565.
27. Druilhe P, Perignon JL. Malaria from Africa blows hot and cold. Nature Med 1999; 5: 272-273.
28. Hill AV, Allsopp CE, Kwiatkowski D et al. Common west African HLA antigens are associated with protection from severe malaria. Nature 1991; 352: 595-600.