| Autor: |
Ricardo Tristão-Sá, Rodrigo Ribeiro-Rodrigues, Luciléia T. Johnson, Fausto Edmundo L. Pereira, Reynaldo Dietze |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2002 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, Vol 35, Iss 5, Pp 533-535 (2002) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
1678-9849 |
| Popis: |
We report a significantly higher prevalence of intestinal nematodes in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) compared to a matched control group: 33/57 (57.8%) in patients with TB and 18/86 (20.9%) in the control group; OR=5.19; 95% CI= 2.33-11.69; p=0.000). When TB patients eosinophilia was also significantly higher among those with intestinal parasites (69.8%) compared to those without this condition (45.6%). We hypothesized that the immune modulation induced by nematodes is a factor that enhances TB infection/progression and that eosinophilia seen in TB patients is a consequence of helminth infection. |
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