Are Parasitic Infections Advantageous to Humans? / 中国寄生虫学与寄生虫病杂志
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ABSTRACT
Humans are negatively affected by parasitic infection.However, recent researches revealed that to some extent, parasitic infections are advantageous to humans.Parasitic infections are found to benefit patients of inflammatory bowel disease, diabetes mellitus, autoimmune disease and allergic disorder.Furthermore, they promoted studies on pathogenesis of these diseases, and therefore on safe and effective therapeutic strategy.In addition, by taking the Caenorhabditis elegans as model organism, researchers have made a breakthrough in the area of life science, including signal transduction, functional genomics and drug screening.
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Chinese Journal of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases
Ano de publicação:
1987
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