Corticosteroid treatment increases parasite numbers in murine giardiasis.
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Corticosteroid treatment increases parasite numbers in murine giardiasis.
Corticosteroid therapy is known to be hazardous in patients with occult infection but the mechanism by which the host parasite relationship is altered by steroids is not known. We have used an intestinal protozoal parasite, Giardia muris, to examine the effects of corticosteroids on the number of parasites in the intestine in the course of a primary infection. A single injection of cortisone ac...
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عنوان ژورنال: Gut
سال: 1981
ISSN: 0017-5749
DOI: 10.1136/gut.22.6.475