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Potential Influence of Parasitic Diseases as Protective Agents from Infection with Pandemic COVID-19
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https://doi.org/10.47723/kcmj.v18i1.818Keywords:
COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, parasitosis, Co infectionAbstract
Parasitic diseases can affect infection with COVID-19 obviously, as protective agents, or by reducing severity of this viral infection. This current review mentions the common symptoms between human parasites and symptoms of COVID-19, and explains the mechanism actions of parasites, which may prevent or reduce severity of this viral infection. Pre-existing parasitic infections provide prohibition against pathogenicity of COVID-19, by altering the balance of gut microbiota that can vary the immune response to this virus infection.
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Mohammad Abd AL-Khaliq I. Potential Influence of Parasitic Diseases as Protective Agents from Infection with Pandemic COVID-19. Al-Kindy Col. Med. J [Internet]. 2022 May 5 [cited 2024 Dec. 22];18(1):10-2. Available from: https://jkmc.uobaghdad.edu.iq/index.php/MEDICAL/article/view/818
