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ArticleAllergy, asthma, and clinical immunology : official journal of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology2018

Cytokine profiles among patients co-infected with

Richard Bwanika, Charles D Kato, Johnson Welishe, Daniel C Mwandah

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Article in Allergy, asthma, and clinical immunology : official journal of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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9citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Richard Bwanika1School of Biomedical Sciences, Department of Microbiology, Kampala International University, Western Campus, Ishaka, Box 71, Bushenyi, Uganda.
Charles D Kato1School of Biomedical Sciences, Department of Microbiology, Kampala International University, Western Campus, Ishaka, Box 71, Bushenyi, Uganda.
Johnson Welishe1School of Biomedical Sciences, Department of Microbiology, Kampala International University, Western Campus, Ishaka, Box 71, Bushenyi, Uganda.
Daniel C Mwandah1School of Biomedical Sciences, Department of Microbiology, Kampala International University, Western Campus, Ishaka, Box 71, Bushenyi, Uganda.
Kampala International University · UG

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundMalaria and helminths share the same geographical distribution in tropical Africa. Studies of the interaction of helminth and malaria co-infection in humans have been few and are mainly epidemiological, with little information on cellular immune responses. This study aimed to determine Cytokine profiles among patients co-infected with

methodsA case control study of 240 patients were recruited at KIU teaching hospital. Patients with

resultsThe prevalence of

conclusionAn up-regulation of IFN-γ during

Indexed as

Co-infectedPlasmodium falciparum malariaSoil borne helminthsTh1 and Th2 cytokines

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PMID29560020
PMCPMC5858126
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