The Hygiene Hypothesis and Its Inconvenient Truths about Helminth Infections

• Neima Briggs ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Neima Briggs, Jill Weatherhead

  Affiliations Department of Immunology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Jill Weatherhead ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Neima Briggs, Jill Weatherhead

  Affiliation Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• K. Jagannadha Sastry,

  Affiliations Department of Immunology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Peter J. Hotez

  * E-mail: hotez@bcm.edu

  Affiliations Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, James A Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States of America, Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8770-1042

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