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. 2015 Nov 17;43(5):840-2.
doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2015.10.025.

Worming Their Way into the Picture: Microbiota Help Helminths Modulate Host Immunity

Lisa A Reynolds  1 , B Brett Finlay  2
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Worming Their Way into the Picture: Microbiota Help Helminths Modulate Host Immunity

Lisa A Reynolds et al. Immunity. .
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Abstract

Parasitic helminths are potent regulators of host immunity, including inhibition of allergic inflammation. In this issue of Immunity, Zaiss et al. (2015) reveal that microbiota compositional shifts during helminth infection contribute to the multifaceted ways that helminths modulate host immunity.

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