Parasitic Worm Infections Increase Susceptibility To AIDS Viruses
Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 12:28
in Health & Medicine
Persons infected with schistosomes, and possibly other parasitic worm infections, may be more likely to become infected with HIV than persons without worm infections, according to a new study. Researchers found that the infectious dose of an HIV-like virus necessary to infect rhesus macaques was 17-fold lower in animals with acute schistosomiasis than in controls.
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