A benign helminth alters the host immune system and the gut microbiota in a rat model system

Laura Wegener Parfrey; Milan Jirků; Radek Šíma; Marie Jalovecká; Bohumil Sak; Karina Grigore; Kateřina Jirků Pomajbíková

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0182205

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A benign helminth alters the host immune system and the gut microbiota in a rat model system

Laura Wegener Parfrey ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: pomajbikova@paru.cas.cz (KKP); Lwparfrey@botany.ubc.ca (LWP)

Affiliations Departments of Botany and Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Integrated Microbial Biodiversity Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Canada
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Milan Jirků,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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Radek Šíma,

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Validation

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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Marie Jalovecká,

Roles Methodology, Software

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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Bohumil Sak,

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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Karina Grigore,

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Departments of Botany and Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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Kateřina Jirků Pomajbíková

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: pomajbikova@paru.cas.cz (KKP); Lwparfrey@botany.ubc.ca (LWP)

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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A benign helminth alters the host immune system and the gut microbiota in a rat model system

Laura Wegener Parfrey,
Milan Jirků,
Radek Šíma,
Marie Jalovecká,
Bohumil Sak,
Karina Grigore,
Kateřina Jirků Pomajbíková

Published: August 3, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0182205

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