Soil-transmitted helminths and Plasmodium falciparum malaria: Epidemiology, clinical manifestations, and the role of nitric oxide in malaria and geohelminth co-infection. Do worms have a protective role in P. falciparum infection?

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1098-1105

  Basavaraju, Sridhar V ^a,b,c   Schantz, Peter ^a  

^a NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

CD23; Cerebral malaria; Co infection; Helminth; Malaria severity; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; CD23 ANTIGEN; NITRIC OXIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BRAIN MALARIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL STUDY; DISEASE CONTROL; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE PARASITE; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; REVIEW; SOIL; STRONGYLOIDES; SUPERINFECTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALS; COMORBIDITY; ENDEMIC DISEASES; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALARIA, CEREBRAL; NITRIC OXIDE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RECEPTORS, IGE; SOIL;

EID: 33847694978     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: 19317581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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