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ArticleJournal of parasitology research2011

Parasites or cohabitants: cruel omnipresent usurpers or creative "éminences grises"?

Marcos A Vannier-Santos, Henrique L Lenzi

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Article in Journal of parasitology research, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. A Devil of a Transmissible Cancer.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2020
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  6. Selfishness, warfare, and economics; or integration, cooperation, and biology.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2012
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Marcos A Vannier-SantosLaboratório de Biomorfologia Parasitária, Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Rua Waldemar Falcão 121, Brotas, 40295-001 Salvador, BA, Brazil.
Henrique L Lenzi

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper presents many types of interplays between parasites and the host, showing the history of parasites, the effects of parasites on the outcome of wars, invasions, migrations, and on the development of numerous regions of the globe, and the impact of parasitic diseases on the society and on the course of human evolution. It also emphasizes the pressing need to change the look at the parasitism phenomenon, proposing that the term "cohabitant" is more accurate than parasite, because every living being, from bacteria to mammals, is a consortium of living beings in the pangenome. Even the term parasitology should be replaced by cohabitology because there is no parasite alone and host alone: both together compose a new adaptive system: the parasitized-host or the cohabitant-cohabited being. It also suggests switching the old paradigm based on attrition and destruction, to a new one founded on adaptation and living together.

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PMID21785696
PMCPMC3140032

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