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Aurélia Stefani1,2, Marie Cheuret3, Duc N'Guyen3
1EPaT team (EA 3593), UFR de Médecine - Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, Cayenne, French Guiana.
Introduction:
Most studies on nematode-malaria interactions were conducted outside of the Americas. The objective of the present study was thus to study the relation between malaria and nematodes in a cohort of children in an Amazonian village.
Methods:
Odds ratios for intestinal nematode infections as an explanatory variable to malaria resistant vs. malaria sensitive were computed.
Results:
Ascaris lumbricoides was significantly more frequent in the 'resistant' malaria group than in the 'sensitive' one.
Conclusions:
Despite its low statistical power, the present results find that Ascaris was associated with less malaria, as observed by a number of studies.
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