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[Clinical and immunological indicators in patient with viral hepatitis A combined with ascariasis]
Meditsinskaia Parazitologiia I Parazitarnye Bolezni
|March 1, 1989
Abstract:
The data obtained point to the aggravation of virus hepatitis A time-course in case of a mixed pathology. This may be due to the state of a certain immune deficiency characteristic of parasitic diseases, including helminthiasis. It is also possible that immune deficiency is an inevitable condition for helminths' existance in the host. This suggestion is supported by the fact of helminthic invasion of virus hepatitis patients.
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