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One of the challenges for monitoring helminth control programmes based on preventive chemotherapy is...
Helminth infection may modulate the expression of Toll ... and experimental data provide further evidence that reducing helminth infections increases the incidence rate of such ... signaling and agonists of their...
Soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections, among the most common...
Stunting and soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections including ascariasis, trichuriasis and ... and its association with three major soil-transmitted helminths (STH) in rural areas of southern...
Helminth infections as well as structural alternations in ... 1 diseases progression. However, the impact of helminths infections on the occurrences of triple NF- ... region of HIV-1C isolates during chronic HIV-
The dynamics of helminth infection in African elephant populations are poorly...
We extracted georeferenced survey data on the prevalence of infection with soil-transmitted helminths (i.e. Ascaris lumbricoides, hookworm and Trichuris trichiura) in Brazil from the Global Neglected Tropical Dis...
Soil-transmitted helminth infections affect tens of millions of individuals...
Soil-transmitted helminths (STH) are intestinal parasites estimated to ... & Melinda Gates Foundation funded DeWorm3 studies. Helminth parasites are known to be highly aggregated...
Squamate reptiles cohabiting with companion animals may represent a source of helminth infections, especially through predation by dogs and...
Helminthiasis is a public health concern in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR, Laos). This study aimed to understand helminth infection and associated risk factors in relation...
We carried out a cross-sectional survey and assessed the prevalence and intensity of soil-transmitted helminth infections as well as self-rated QoL...Trichuris trichiura and Ascaris lumbricoides...were high in Bu...
The impact of semiannual mass drug administration (MDA) with albendazole (ALB; 400 mg) alone on lymphatic filariasis (LF) and soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections was assessed during two...
Digital imaging combined with deep-learning-based computational image analysis is a growing area in medical diagnostics, including parasitology, where a number of automated analytical devices have been develo...
In early 2010, we administered a questionnaire pertaining to physical fitness to 200 schoolchildren in Côte d'Ivoire. Helminth and Plasmodium spp. infections were determined and schoolchildren's physical fitness ...
The Kato-Katz technique is widely used for the diagnosis of soil-transmitted helminthiasis in epidemiological surveys and is believed to be an inexpensive method. The FLOTAC technique shows a higher sensitivity f...
Despite considerable public health efforts over the past 20 years, childhood stunting (physical and/or cognitive) levels globally remain unacceptably high—at 22% amongst children under 5 years old in 2020. The ae...
Anthropogenic habitat change often results in altered landscapes that can provide new environments where hosts, parasites and pathogens can interact. The latter can have implications for human and animal health w...
The most commonly used diagnostic tool for soil-transmitted helminths (STH) is the Kato-Katz (KK...
An accurate understanding of the geographical distributions of both soil-transmitted helminths (STHs; Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, and the hookworms Necator americanus and Ancylostoma duodenale) and...
The helminth community structures of two urban rat populations...
The prevalence of infection with the three common soil-transmitted helminths (i.e. Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, and hookworm) in Bolivia is among the highest in Latin America. However, the spatial d...
Due to the burden of schistosomiasis (SCH) and soil-transmitted helminths (STH), Togo Ministry of Health launched...
The red fox (Vulpes vulpes...) is host to a community of zoonotic and other helminth species. Tracking their community structure and dynamics...
This study was carried out to develop a health education learning package (HELP) about soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections, and to evaluate what...
Understanding the global limits of transmission of soil-transmitted helminth (STH) species is essential for quantifying...Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura and hookworm in 2010.
Chronic soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections have been associated with...
In the first part of this study, we investigated the prevalence and associated key factors of soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections among Orang Asli children...
The impact of access to improved water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and health education on large-scale deworming programs aimed at controlling soil-transmitted helminth (STH) and schistosome (SCH) infections.....
The Geshiyaro project is a 5-year intervention to assess the impact of community- and school-based water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH) interventions on reducing infection with soil-transmitted helminths (STH) a...
Kennel dogs are at the high risk of infections with intestinal and extra-intestinal helminths. Therefore, regular parasitological surveillance, appropriate treatment ... present study was to evaluate the efficacy...
Schistosomiasis is endemic in Ethiopia and previously unknown transmission foci have been reported from time to time in different parts of the country. Further surveys are required in areas where endemicity of...
Soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections with Ascaris lumbricoides, hookworm and Trichuris trichiura affect large parts of the world’s population. For the implementation of national STH control programs, e.g. p...
Our group has recently provided a proof-of-principle for the examination of pooled stool samples using McMaster technique as a strategy for the rapid assessment of intensity of soil-transmitted helminth infection...
The success of mass drug administration programmes targeting the soil-transmitted helminths and schistosome parasites is in part dependent ... . The impact of systematic non-compliance on helminth transmission dy...
Despite the continuous efforts to improve the quality of life of Orang Asli (Aborigines) communities, these communities are still plagued with a wide range of health problems including parasitic infections. The f...
Due to high prevalence of anthelmintic resistance in equine helminths, selective treatment is increasingly promoted and in...G2 in terms of precision, sensitivity, inter-rater reliability and correlation of worm ...
Zoonotic diseases are a serious threat to both public health and animal conservation. Most non-human primates (NHP) are facing the threat of forest loss and fragmentation and are increasingly living in closer spa...
Quantifying the burden of parasitic diseases in relation to other diseases and injuries requires reliable estimates of prevalence for each disease and an analytic framework within which to estimate attributable m...
The present work aims to characterize eggs of capillariid species deposited in institutional helminth collections and to process the morphological, morphometric...
The epidemiology of soil-transmitted helminth (STH) and Plasmodium co-infections need better understanding. The findings of the individual studies are inconclusive. A systematic review was conducted to synthesize...
Japan is one of the few countries believed to have eliminated soil-transmitted helminths (STHs). In 1949, the national...Ascaris lumbricoides was 62.9%, which decreased to 0.6% in 1973 due to improvements in infr...
Soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections affect predominantly socio-economically...
Sibship reconstruction is a form of parentage analysis that can be used to identify the number of helminth parental genotypes infecting individual hosts using genetic...
Investigations of the relationships between the gut microbiota and gastrointestinal parasitic nematodes are attracting growing interest by the scientific community, driven by the need to better understand the ...
Preventive chemotherapy with donated anthelminthic drugs is the cornerstone for the control of helminthiases. However, reinfection can occur rapidly in the absence of clean water and sanitation coupled with unhyg...
We analysed the prevalence of helminth infections in a dataset of 29,286...
It is the aim of the World Health Organisation to eliminate soil-transmitted helminths (STH) as a health problem in ... to increase anthelmintic treatment coverage for soil transmitted helminths to reach 75 % in ...
Exotic reptiles such as tortoises, have become increasingly common domestic pets worldwide and are known to host different gastrointestinal parasites. Some of these parasites bear zoonotic potential. In the pr...
The human helminth infections include ascariasis, trichuriasis, hookworm infections, ... almost 2 billion people worldwide are infected with helminths. Whilst the WHO treatment guidelines for helminth infections ...
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