Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (Aug 2004)

Interactions between schistosomiasis and human immunodeficiency virus in Western Kenya

  • W Evan Secor,
  • Diana MS Karanja,
  • Daniel G Colley

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/S0074-02762004000900016
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 99
pp. 93 – 95

Abstract

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For the past ten years, we have been exploring the relationship between schistosomiasis and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) and how coinfection with both agents may affect the pathology and progression of each infection. To date, given the systems we have examined, the effects of HIV-1 on schistosomiasis have been more profound than the effects of schistosomiasis on HIV-1 progression. Additional key questions with important public health implications remain unanswered, but hopefully not unanswerable.

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