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How Modulations of the Gut Microbiota May Help in Preventing or Treating Parasitic Diseases

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Due to the combined effects of international travel, climate change, and globalization, clinicians in Southern Europe are seeing a re-emergence of parasitic infections once thought to have been eradicated, which can often result in chronic illness, and thus present new diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. Here, we comment on two such parasitic protozoa, Trypanosoma cruzi and Plasmodium, and how modulation of the gut microbiota can provide exciting new possible therapeutic strategies in the treatment and prevention of Chagas disease and malaria.

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  1. Multimodal Laboratory Medicine Research Area, Unit of Human Microbiome, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy

    Antonia Piazzesi

  2. Department of Diagnostic and Laboratory Medicine, Unit of Microbiology and Diagnostic Immunology, Unit of Microbiomics, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy

    Stefania Pane

  3. Department of Diagnostic and Laboratory Medicine, Unit of Microbiology and Diagnostic Immunology, Unit of Microbiomics and Multimodal Laboratory Medicine Research Area, Unit of Human Microbiome, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy

    Lorenza Putignani

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Piazzesi, A., Pane, S. & Putignani, L. How Modulations of the Gut Microbiota May Help in Preventing or Treating Parasitic Diseases. Curr Trop Med Rep 9, 257–260 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40475-022-00275-4

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