What is it about?
We searched for published research papers about people with multiple infections. We gathered information on the type of study, the infections, and the health of people involved. Papers were published in dozens of journals and used a range of terms for multiple infections, like coinfection, double infection, and polymicrobial infection. We found hundreds of different infection combinations. There was a skew towards people with multiple infections having bigger infections and poorer health.
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Why is it important?
This was the first paper to survey all kinds of infections reported to co-occur in humans, and to collect information on the impact they had on peoples health. It offered an initial indication that people with multiple infections have worse health outcomes than people with just one infection. Concernes remained over biases in the reported data: do most coinfections really involve microparasites like bacteria and viruses?
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: The nature and consequences of coinfection in humans, Journal of Infection, September 2011, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2011.06.005.
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Resources
CSV file of reported effects of coinfection
Survey of papers from 2009 about multiple infections in groups of people. Papers are summarised here in terms of the reported difference in parasitemia and health of people with multiple infections for every reported coinfection.
Rdata file of reported effects of coinfection
Survey of papers from 2009 about multiple infections in groups of people. Papers are summarised here in terms of the reported difference in parasitemia and health of people with multiple infections for every reported coinfection. This file can be directly loaded into R, a free statistical software package.
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