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Competing for blood: How ecologists are solving infectious disease mysteries

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By looking at malaria infections and hookworms as competitors battling over a key resource -- red blood cells -- ecologists were able to explain why co-infected patients often got sicker after being dewormed: without the hookworms to keep it in check, the malaria infection ran rampant.

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Unkown User, "Competing for blood: How ecologists are solving infectious disease mysteries", MachPrinciple, February 14, 2018, https://machprinciple.com/post/Competing-for-blood-How-ecologists-are-solving-infectious-disease-mysteries

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