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SUBMITTER: Rajamanickam A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7488178 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rajamanickam Anuradha A Munisankar Saravanan S Menon Pradeep A PA Dolla Chandrakumar C Nutman Thomas B TB Babu Subash S
Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology 20200831
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is characterized by heightened systemic inflammation and microbial translocation. Whether concomitant helminth infections can modulate this systemic response is unclear. We examined the presence of markers of systemic inflammation (levels of acute phase proteins) and of microbial translocation [levels of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and its associated products] in T2DM individuals with (<i>Ss</i><sup>+</sup>) or without (<i>Ss</i><sup>-</sup>) <i>Strongyloides stercor ...[more]