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12031069

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-5-28
pubmed:abstractText
HIV and parasitic infections interact and affect each other mutually. Whereas HIV infection may alter the natural history of parasitic diseases, impede rapid diagnosis or reduce the efficacy of antiparasitic treatment, parasitoses may facilitate the infection with HIV as well as the progression from asymptomatic infection to AIDS. We review data on known interactions for malaria, leishmaniasis, Human African Trypanosomiasis, Chagas' disease, onchocerciasis, lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis and intestinal helminthiases. The common immunopathogenetic basis for the deleterious effects parasitic diseases may have on the natural history of HIV infection seems to be a particular type of chronic immune activation and a preferential activation of the T helper (Th)2 type of help. Control of parasitic diseases should complement the tools currently used in combating the HIV pandemic.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
1360-2276
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
7
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
479-88
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-7
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
HIV infection and tropical parasitic diseases - deleterious interactions in both directions?
pubmed:affiliation
Institute of Tropical Medicine Berlin and Medical Faculty Charité, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany. gundel.harms@charite.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review