[How to combat HIV, tuberculosis and malaria?].

Background: In year 2 000, the United Nations (UN) agreed on eight millennium development goals (MDGs). Goal number 6 is to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other communicable diseases, including tuberculosis. The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of current status and prognosis for this MDG, and to discuss strategies that need to be implemented to reach the goal.

Chronic intestinal nematode infection exacerbates experimental Schistosoma mansoni infection.

Mixed-parasite infections are common in many parts of the world, but little is known of the effects of concomitant parasite infections on the immune response or on disease progression. We have investigated the in vivo effects of a chronic gastrointestinal nematode infection on the infectivity and development of the immune response against the common trematode helminth Schistosoma mansoni. The data show that mice carrying an established chronic Trichuris muris infection and coinfected with S.