Are Pregnant Women with Chronic Helminth Infections More Susceptible to Congenital Infections?
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Are Pregnant Women with Chronic Helminth Infections More Susceptible to Congenital Infections?
SOME SIMILARITIES BETWEEN IMMUNE RESPONSE DURING PREGNANCY AND CHRONIC HELMINTH INFECTIONS EXIST Pregnancy is a unique immunological status with different hormonal and immunological alterations. Pregnancy hormones (including progesterone, glucocorticoids, estradiol, and estriol) increase over the course of pregnancy and significantly modulate the immunological shift that occurs over the three t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Immunology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1664-3224
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2014.00053