Does helminth elimination promote or prevent malaria?

Lancet

Volumn 369, Issue 9560, 2007, Pages 446-447

  Specht, Sabine ^a   Hoerauf, Achim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASCARIS; BRAIN MALARIA; HELMINTHIASIS; LITOMOSOIDES SIGMODONTIS; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMA;

EID: 33846786804     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(07)60210-4     Document Type: Note

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