Concomitant infection decreases the malaria burden but escalates relapsing fever borreliosis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1924-1930

  Lundqvist, Jenny ^a   Larsson, Christer ^a   Nelson, Maria ^a   Andersson, Marie ^a   Bergström, Sven ^a   Persson, Cathrine ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ANEMIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BORRELIA INFECTION; BRAIN INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IN VIVO STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SPIROCHETE;

ANEMIA; ANIMALS; BORRELIA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ERYTHROCYTES; MALARIA; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; RELAPSING FEVER; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77951241052     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01082-09     Document Type: Article

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