Stress Exacerbates Infectivity and Pathogenicity of Blastocystis hominis: In Vitro and In Vivo Evidences

BACKGROUND: Stress alters the oxidant-antioxidant state and immune cell responses which disrupts its function to combat infection. Blastocystis hominis, a common intestinal protozoan has been reported to be opportunistic in immunocompromised patients namely cancer. B. hominis infectivity in other al...

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Autores principales: Chandramathi, Samudi, Suresh, Kumar, Sivanandam, Sinnadurai, Kuppusamy, Umah Rani
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4008615/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24788756
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0094567

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4008615/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24788756
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0094567

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