Decreased prevalence of sepsis but not mild or severe P. falciparum malaria is associated with pre-existing filarial infection

BACKGROUND: Enhanced inflammatory host responses have been attributed as the cellular basis for development of severe malaria as well as sepsis. In contrast to this, filarial infections have been consistently reported to be associated with an immunological hypo-responsive phenotype. This suggests th...

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Autores principales: Panda, Madhumita, Sahoo, Prakash K, Mohapatra, Alok Das, Dutta, Soumya kanti, Thatoi, Pravat K, Tripathy, Rina, Das, Bidyut K, Satpathy, Ashok K, Ravindran, Balachandran
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3750550/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23837823
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-6-203

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