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ReviewThe Yale journal of biology and medicine2012

The complication of coinfection.

Lesley Pasman

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Review in The Yale journal of biology and medicine, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. Disease Diagnostics and Potential Coinfections byFrontiers in microbiology · 2020
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  11. Changes inFrontiers in immunology · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Lesley PasmanDepartment of Immunobiology, Yale Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, New Haven, CT, USA. lesley.pasman@yale.edu

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Infectious disease remains one of the largest burdens on humankind. Even with modern medical and public health standards, infectious disease remained the No. 1 killer worldwide at the turn of the century. Often, the most costly disease burdens come from multiple infections at once, i.e., coinfection. Influenza, an annual infection often considered relatively harmless, can increase susceptibility to both deadly bacterial pneumonia and childhood ear infections. Major health threat HIV rarely kills a patient on its own, but instead allows for opportunistic infections and re-emergence of infections such as tuberculosis. What generates these unique relationships is not well understood; herein, we examine in detail three types of coinfection and the unique interactions between infectious agents as well as with the host in each setting. We also begin to address how we may aid further understanding of coinfection and what questions need to be addressed to help direct future treatments.

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AnimalsBacterial InfectionsChronic DiseaseCoinfectionHIV InfectionsHumansbacterial pneumoniacoinfectionfluHIVinfluenzaMtbpolymicrobial infectionsecondary infectiontuberculosis

Identifiers

PMID22461751
PMCPMC3313527

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