Chronic hepatitis B virus infection drives changes in systemic immune activation profile in patients coinfected with Plasmodium vivax malaria.

• Main Authors: Luís A B Cruz (Author), Marina O A Moraes (Author), Matheus R Queiroga-Barros (Author), Kiyoshi F Fukutani (Author), Manoel Barral-Netto (Author), Bruno B Andrade (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<h4>Background</h4>Plasmodium vivax and Hepatitis B virus (HBV) are globally outspread in similar geographic regions. The concurrence of both infections and its association with some degree of protection against symptomatic and/or severe vivax malaria has been already described. Neverthe...