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Comment
. 2022 Jul:120:46-47.
doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2022.04.012. Epub 2022 Apr 9.

Response to Abdelrahman M et al commentary on "Parasites Protect from Severe COVID-19. Myth or Reality?"

Dawit Wolday  1 , Tobias F Rinke de Wit  2
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Response to Abdelrahman M et al commentary on "Parasites Protect from Severe COVID-19. Myth or Reality?"

Dawit Wolday et al. Int J Infect Dis. 2022 Jul.
No abstract available

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Declarations Conflict of interest DW is a senior research fellow of the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership and receives funding from European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership for the projects EvaLAMP and Profile-Cov and serves as a part of the Strategic and Scientific Advisory Board of the Research Networks for Health Innovations in Sub-Saharan Africa (German Federal Ministry of Education and Research). TRW is an employee of the not-for-profit PharmAccess Foundation, a board member of Mondial Diagnostics, and aScientific Advisory Board member of Health Inc., Netherlands.

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