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PARASITE IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 27, Issue 7-8, Pages 309-316Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3024.2005.00778.x
Keywords
anaemia; co-infection; HIV; immune response; mass treatment; schistosomiasis
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Reviews of the immunology of human schistosomiasis generally address the host's protective responses against infection or the factors associated with development of severe pathology. However, there is a growing recognition that the high number of patients expressing moderate morbidity, rather than the few patients with severe morbidity, accounts for the greatest public health impact of schistosomiasis. Therefore, other aspects of the host immune response that have received relatively little attention may actually provide pivotal answers in our understanding and management of the morbidity associated with human schistosomiasis. This review highlights lines of investigation that focus on how immune responses to schistosomiasis may affect schistosomiasis-associated anaemia, alter susceptibility or disease progression during co-infections, and influence effective execution of mass treatment programmes.
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