Does treatment of intestinal helminth infections influence malaria? Background and methodology of a longitudinal study of clinical, parasitological and immunological parameters in Nangapanda, Flores, Indonesia (ImmunoSPIN Study)

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Wiria, Aprilianto E ^a,b   Prasetyani, Margaretta A ^a   Hamid, Firdaus ^b,c   Wammes, Linda J ^b   Lell, Bertrand ^d,e   Ariawan, Iwan ^a   Uh, Hae W ^b   Wibowo, Heri ^a   Djuardi, Yenny ^a   Wahyuni, Sitti ^c   Sutanto, Inge ^a   May, Linda ^b   Luty, Adrian J F ^f   Verweij, Jaco J ^b   Sartono, Erliyani ^b   Yazdanbakhsh, Maria ^b   Supali, Taniawati ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INDONESIA   (Indonesia)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c HASANUDDIN UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^d ALBERT SCHWEITZER HOSPITAL   (Gabon)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^f RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; CYTOKINE; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PLACEBO; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BLOOD CULTURE; CHILD; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INCIDENCE; INDONESIA; INFANT; INTESTINE INFECTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TRICHURIS; ANIMAL; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PATHOLOGY; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; SECRETION;

ALBENDAZOLE; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; CYTOKINES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HELMINTHIASIS; INCIDENCE; INDONESIA; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; PLACEBOS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PREVALENCE;

EID: 77952281296     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-10-77     Document Type: Article

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