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Parasitic manipulation or side effects? The effects of past<i>Toxoplasma</i>and<i>Borrelia</i>infections on human personality and cognitive performance are not mediated by impaired health
2023-01-10
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Bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi s. l . and even more the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii are known to affect the behavior of their animal and human hosts. Both pathogens infect a significant fraction of human population, and both survive in the host’s body for a long time. The resulting latent infections used to be considered clinically asymptomatic. In the last decade, however, numerous studies have shown that this vie...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 5e124a3b-151d-5120-b828-61529182fd28
- DOI
- 10.1101/2023.01.07.23284298