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The Hygiene Hypothesis and Its Inconvenient Truths about Helminth Infections

Current iterations of the hygiene hypothesis suggest an adaptive role for helminth parasites in shaping the proper maturation of the immune system. However, aspects of this hypothesis are based on assumptions that may not fully account for realities about human helminth infections. Such realities in...

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Autores principales: Briggs, Neima, Weatherhead, Jill, Sastry, K. Jagannadha, Hotez, Peter J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5025185/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27632204
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0004944

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