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Serological Evidence of Soil‐Transmitted Helminth Infections as a Potential Risk for Severity in Leprosy Patients

Tropical Medicine &International Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Leprosy presents a broad clinical spectrum influenced by the host's immune response, and co‐infections may further modulate disease progression. This study evaluated clinically diagnosed leprosy patients (n = 251) from Sergipe and Minas Gerais, Brazil, along with healthy controls (n = 43), soil‐transmitted helminths‐positive controls (n = 15),
Ana Laura Grossi de Oliveira, Augusto César Parreiras de Jesus, Ramayana Morais de Medeiros Brito, Jordânia Costa‐Pinto, Tatyane Martins Cirilo, José Bryan Rihs, Marcelo Eduardo Cardozo, Lilian Lacerda Bueno, Luisa Mourão Dias Magalhães, Ricardo Toshio Fujiwara   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Infestacion por ascaris, cuando la pobreza se convierte en enfermedad: revision a propósito de un caso

Práctica Familiar Rural, 2018
Se presente un caso de perforación intestinal por Áscaris lumbricoides en el Hospital Docente Pedro Vicente Maldonado situado en el subtropical del Noroccidente de Pichincha, en el año 2018.
Susana Peñafiel-Mendoza
doaj   +2 more sources

Low Dose Daily Iron Supplementation Improves Iron Status and Appetite but not Anemia, Whereas Quarterly Anthelminthic Treatment Improves Growth, Appetite and Anemia in Zanzibari Preschool Children. [PDF]

, 2004
Iron deficiency and helminth infections are two common conditions of children in developing countries. The consequences of helminth infection in young children are not well described, and the efficacy of low dose iron supplementation is not well ...
Adam, Albonico, Albonico, Antonio Montresor, Brown, Caulfield, Crompton, Davis, de Andraca, Dickson, Diggle, Donnen, Freij, Greenberg, Gupta, Gupta, Hababu M. Chway, Idjradinata, James M. Tielsch, Jape Khatib Jape, Jelkmann, Kloetzel, Lackritz, Langhans, Levin, Lorenzo Savioli, Lozoff, Marco Albonico, Menendez, Montresor, National Research Council, Nelson, Pelletier, Pinero, Plata-Salaman, Rebecca J. Stoltzfus, Reeds, Rosenberg, Rousham, Savioli, Schultz, Smith, Solomons, Stoltzfus, Stoltzfus, Stoltzfus, Stoltzfus, Thein-Hlaing, Trape, Verhoef, Warren, Willett, World Health Organization, World Health Organization Expert Committee   +53 more
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Development of a Loop Mediated Isothermal Amplification for Diagnosis of Ascaris lumbricoides in Fecal Samples

Journal of Parasitology Research, 2016
Ascaris lumbricoides is a nematode parasite that causes the common tropical infection ascariasis in humans. It is also considered among the neglected tropical diseases.
Esther A Shiraho, A. L. Eric, I. Mwangi, Geoffrey M. Maina, Joseph M. Kinuthia, Martin W. Mutuku, R. Mugambi, Jackson M Mwandi, G. Mkoji   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Master of Puppets: How Microbiota Drive the Nematoda Ecology and Evolution?

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 8, August 2025.
The nematode microbiota can influence life‐history traits, thereby shaping the species' ecology and evolutionary trajectories. ABSTRACT In recent decades, the microbiota has emerged as a key driver of biological functions in metazoans, and nematodes are no exception.
Víctor José Trejo‐Meléndez, Jorge Contreras‐Garduño   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Anthelmintic properties of traditional African and Caribbean medicinal plants: identification of extracts with potent activity against Ascaris suum in vitro

Parasite, 2016
Ascariasis affects more than 1 billion people worldwide, mainly in developing countries, causing substantial morbidity. Current treatments for Ascaris infection are based on mass drug administration (MDA) with synthetic anthelmintic drugs such as ...
A. Williams, J. Soelberg, A. Jäger
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Classification of Wheezing Children in Rural Bangladesh by Intensity of Ascaris Infection, Total and Specific IgE Levels, History of Pneumonia, and Other Risk Factors

Journal of Immunology Research, 2019
Ascaris lumbricoides is the most common soil-transmitted helminth and infects 447 million people in impoverished areas worldwide. It causes serious morbidity including wheezing and influences various aspects of human immunity, such as type 2 innate ...
Haruko Takeuchi, Md Alfazal Khan, Khalequz Zaman, Sayaka Takanashi, S. M. Tafsir Hasan, Mohammad Yunus, Tsutomu Iwata   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ammonia based sanitation technology [PDF]

, 2007
Water-borne sanitation of toilet waste is not a viable option for the estimated 2.6 billion people that lack improved sanitation throughout the world.
Nordin, Annika
core  

Estimating Regional Harmonized Indices of Consumer Prices: An Application to the UK

Review of Income and Wealth, Volume 71, Issue 3, August 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper devises and implements a novel methodology to derive expenditure weights for regional (sub‐national) consumer price indices for the UK from 2010 to 2022. Whilst high‐quality expenditure data are available at the national level, this is not the case for subnational regions.
David Hearne
wiley   +1 more source

Soil Transmitted Helminthiasis: An Interesting Scenario [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2020
Amrit Koirala, Godfred Antony Menezes
doaj   +1 more source