Are intestinal helminths playing a positive role in tuberculosis risk? A systematic review and meta-analysis

• Ali Taghipour,

  Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

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• Mehrdad Mosadegh,

  Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Fatemeh Kheirollahzadeh,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biology Department, School of Basic Science, Science and Research Branch Islamic Azad University (SRBIAU), Poonak, Tehran, Iran

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• Meysam Olfatifar,

  Roles Investigation, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases Research Center, Research Institute for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Hossein Safari,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health Promotion Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Mohammad Javad Nasiri,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Atefeh Fathi,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Faculty of veterinary medicine, University of Zabol, Zabol, Iran

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• Milad Badri,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

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• Hadi Piri Dogaheh,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Ardabil University of Medical Science, Ardabil, Iran

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• Taher Azimi

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Taherazimi5@gmail.com, Taherazimi@sbmu.ac.ir

  Affiliations Department of Pathobiology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0213-5227

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