Interactions between worms and malaria: Good worms or bad worms?

Malaria Journal

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Nacher, Mathieu ^a,b,c  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE CAYENNE   (French Guiana)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DES ANTILLES ET DE LA GUYANE   (France)

^c TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; DISEASE COURSE; HELMINTH; HOOKWORM; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PARASITE INCIDENCE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; WORM INFECTION; ANCYLOSTOMA; ANIMAL; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS; COMORBIDITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PATHOGENICITY;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ANIMALS; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS; COMORBIDITY; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALARIA;

EID: 80052563896     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-10-259     Document Type: Review

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