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further analyses

Posted by mnacher on 16 Mar 2010 at 23:56 GMT

Therefore, in the present study we conclude that the major risk factor associated with clinical episodes of malaria was whether or not the children had detectable intestinal helminthic infection(s) at the beginning of the 51 months of follow-up
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Is there a link between worm burden and malaria parasitemia. or, more simply do patients with worms have a lower or higher parasitemia than those without worms. As advocates of the 100% detrimental impact of worms on malaria this could put their hypothesis to the test.

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