Medical Hypotheses
Volume 64, Issue 5 , Pages 904-909, 2005

Can worms defend our hearts? Chronic helminthic infections may attenuate the development of cardiovascular diseases

  • Eli Magen

      Affiliations

    • Ruth Ben-An Institute of Clinical Immunology & AIDS Center, Kaplan Medical Center, Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Rehovot, Israel
    • Medicine B Department, Allergy and Clinical Immunology Unit, Infectious Diseases Unit, Barzilai Medical Center, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Hahistadrut, Ashkelon, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +972 8 6745710/8648203; fax: +972 8 6745712
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  • Gadi Borkow

      Affiliations

    • Ruth Ben-An Institute of Clinical Immunology & AIDS Center, Kaplan Medical Center, Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Rehovot, Israel
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  • Zvi Bentwich

      Affiliations

    • Ruth Ben-An Institute of Clinical Immunology & AIDS Center, Kaplan Medical Center, Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Rehovot, Israel
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  • Joseph Mishal

      Affiliations

    • Medicine B Department, Allergy and Clinical Immunology Unit, Infectious Diseases Unit, Barzilai Medical Center, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Hahistadrut, Ashkelon, Israel
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  • Shimon Scharf

      Affiliations

    • Medicine B Department, Allergy and Clinical Immunology Unit, Infectious Diseases Unit, Barzilai Medical Center, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Hahistadrut, Ashkelon, Israel

Received 27 August 2004; accepted 23 September 2004. published online 02 February 2005.

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PII: S0306-9877(04)00595-X

doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2004.09.028

Medical Hypotheses
Volume 64, Issue 5 , Pages 904-909, 2005

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