Malaria‐Filaria Coinfection in Mice Makes Malarial Disease More Severe unless Filarial Infection Achieves Patency

Malaria-filaria coinfection in mice makes malarial disease more severe unless filarial infection achieves patency.

Coinfections are common in natural populations, and the literature suggests that helminth coinfection readily affects how the immune system manages malaria. For example, type 1-dependent control of malaria parasitemia might be impaired by the type 2 milieu of preexisting helminth infection. Alternatively, immunomodulatory effects of helminths might affect the likelihood of malarial immunopathol...

Hypnotic disgust makes moral judgments more severe.

Highly hypnotizable participants were given a posthypnotic suggestion to feel a flash of disgust whenever they read an arbitrary word. They were then asked to rate moral transgressions described in vignettes that either did or did not include the disgust-inducing word. Two studies show that moral judgments can be made more severe by the presence of a flash of disgust. These findings suggest tha...

Severe malarial infection in a patient with sickle-cell anaemia.

Polymeric Gas Separation Membranes: What Makes them Industrially more Attractive?

Fetal origins of malarial disease: cord blood cytokines as risk markers for pediatric severe malarial anemia.

BACKGROUND Severe malarial anemia (SMA) remains a major cause of pediatric illness and mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa. Here we test the hypothesis that prenatal exposures, reflected by soluble inflammatory mediators in cord blood, can condition an individual's susceptibility to SMA. METHODS In a Tanzanian birth cohort (n = 743), we measured cord blood concentrations of tumor necrosis factor ...