Trypanosoma brucei infection protects mice against malaria.

Sleeping sickness and malaria are parasitic diseases with overlapping geographical distributions in sub-Saharan Africa. We hypothesized that the immune response elicited by an infection with Trypanosoma brucei, the etiological agent of sleeping sickness, would inhibit a subsequent infection by Plasm...

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Main Authors: Margarida Sanches-Vaz, Adriana Temporão, Rafael Luis, Helena Nunes-Cabaço, António M Mendes, Sarah Goellner, Tânia Carvalho, Luisa M Figueiredo, Miguel Prudêncio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-11-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008145