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Effect of sanitation on soil-transmitted helminth infection : systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]

, 2012
BACKGROUND: In countries of high endemicity of the soil-transmitted helminth parasites Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, and hookworm, preventive chemotherapy (i.e., repeated administration of anthelmintic drugs to at-risk populations) is the ...
Speich Benjamin, Jennifer Keiser, Robert Bos (188771), Speich, B., Keiser Jennifer, Benjamin Speich, Daniel Mäusezahl (188769), Keiser, J., Utzinger, J., Benjamin Speich (159922), Jürg Utzinger (39609), Kathrin Ziegelbauer (188765), Ziegelbauer, K., Ziegelbauer Kathrin, Utzinger Jürg, Mäusezahl, D., Kathrin Ziegelbauer, Daniel Mäusezahl, Mäusezahl Daniel, Bos, R., Jennifer Keiser (39606), Jürg Utzinger, Robert Bos, Bos Robert   +23 more
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Transmission of helminth eggs through hands in a high-risk community.

, 2014
BACKGROUND: The role that hands play in the transmission of Ascaris is not well understood. METHODS: A newly developed method to quantify the presence helminth eggs on hands was tested among a group of farmers in Vietnam.
Do, Hong Anh, Ensink, Jeroen HJ, Jeandron, Aurelie, Nguyen, Viet Anh, Gulliver, Francesca   +4 more
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Epidemiology and burden of soil-transmitted helminth infections among school-aged Bulang children in Yunnan province, People's Republic of China [PDF]

, 2015
Background: The three most common soil-transmitted helminths are Ascaris lumbricoides (roundworm), Trichuris trichiura (whipworm), and Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus (hookworms).
Yap, Peiling
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Depression during Pregnancy in a Tertiary Care Center of Eastern Nepal

Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 2008
This is a cross sectional study, conducted in 45 pregnant women coming for antenatal check ups in the eastern regional hospitals in Nepal. Hamilton -Depression Scale (HAM-d) was applied after initial psychiatry work up to all women who were selected for ...
Rabi Shakya, S Sitaula, P M Shyangwa
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A demographic survey on the prevalence of gastrointestinal parasites based on socioeconomic determinants in Pakistan

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2021
Introduction: The present study was conducted to investigate prevalence of intestinal parasites and the risk factors related to socio-demographic characteristics of patients admitted in pathology ward, General Hospital, Gujranwala.
Shumaila Irum, Arbab Ahsan, Haroon Ahmed, Aisha Khan, Guan Yayi, Mudabbar Mehboob, Seyma Gunyakti Kilinc, Harun Kaya Kesik, Muhammad Sohail Afzal, Shahzad Ali, Majid Mehmood, Figen Celik, Sami Simsek   +12 more
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Distribution and risk factors for Plasmodium and helminth co-infections: a cross-sectional survey among children in Bagamoyo district, coastal region of Tanzania [PDF]

, 2015
Plasmodium and soil transmitted helminth infections (STH) are a major public health problem, particularly among children. There are conflicting findings on potential association between these two parasites.
Abdulla, S, Julian Rothen (716976), Abdulla, Salim, Knopp, S., Mohamed, A., Tanner, M., Daubenberger, C., Mohammed, A.S., Omar Lweno, Stefanie Knopp, Ummi Abdul (716974), Salim, N., Daubenberger, Claudia, Tobias Schindler, Abdulla, S., Abdul, Ummi, Denis Kwaba, Blaise Genton, John Masimba, Nahya Salim (716972), Lweno, Omar, John Masimba (716977), Abdul, U., Kwaba, D., Althaus, F., Rothen, J., Stefanie Knopp (108848), Blaise Genton (67109), Lweno, O., Alisa S Mohammed, Genton, B., Claudia Daubenberger, Kwaba, Denis, Denis Kwaba (716978), Julian Rothen, Mohammed, Alisa S., Salim Abdulla, Mohamed, Ali, Althaus, Fabrice, Schindler, T., Schindler, Tobias, Rothen, Julian, Marcel Tanner (33894), Tobias Schindler (716975), Marcel Tanner, Omar Lweno (716973), Salim Abdulla (76158), Ali Mohamed, Masimba, J., Tanner, Marcel, Genton, Blaise, Masimba, John, Fabrice Althaus (716979), Ali Mohamed (3546578), Alisa S. Mohammed (224862), Nahya Salim, Claudia Daubenberger (212658), Mohammed, S.A., Salim, Nahya, Fabrice Althaus, Knopp, Stefanie, Ummi Abdul   +61 more
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The immunomodulatory properties of helminth-derived products on dendritic cell maturation and function [PDF]

, 2009
Parasitic worms and molecules derived from them drive Th2/Treg immune responses in mammalian hosts and have powerful anti-inflammatory properties which are shown to have therapeutic effects on inflammatory diseases.
Dowling, David J.
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Helminth communities of sigmonontine rodents in cocoa agroforestry systems in Brazil

International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2020
Agroforestry is an alternative kind of land use where the native vegetation is surrounded or intercalated by crops of economic interest. This system may maintain species richness by promoting the habitat heterogeneity or serving as ecological corridors ...
Maíra G. Kersul, Natália A. Costa, Raquel G. Boullosa, Adna A.S. Silva, Élson O. Rios, Alexandre D. Munhoz, Beatriz E. Andrade-Silva, Arnaldo Maldonado, Júnior, Rosana Gentile, Martin R. Alvarez   +9 more
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Helminth species specific expansion and increased TNF-alpha production of non-classical monocytes during active tuberculosis.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2021
Both Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and helminths may affect innate immune mechanisms such as differential effects on monocytes towards the non-classical and intermediate subsets that favor bacterial persistence.
Gezahegn Bewket, Amare Kiflie, Ebba Abate, Olle Stendahl, Thomas Schön, Robert Blomgran   +5 more
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Associations between mild-to-moderate anaemia in pregnancy and helminth, malaria and HIV infection in Entebbe, Uganda. [PDF]

, 2007
It is suggested that helminths, particularly hookworm and schistosomiasis, may be important causes of anaemia in pregnancy. We assessed the associations between mild-to-moderate anaemia (haemoglobin >8.0 g/dl and
Nabulime, Juliet, Patrick Woodburn, Omoding, Nicholas, Kizito, D, Morison, LA, Muhangi, Lawrence, Lawrence Muhangi, Alison M. Elliott, Mildred Omara, Juliet Nabulime, Elliott, Alison M, Kizito, Dennison, Elliott, AM, Nicholas Omoding, Nabulime, J, Mpairwe, Harriet, Ameke, C, Woodburn, Patrick, Elliott, Alison M., Muhangi, L, Morison, Linda A., Ameke, Christine, Ornoding, N, Mpairwe, H, Woodburn, P, Morison, Linda A, Dennison Kizito, Omara, M, Omara, Mildred, Christine Ameke, Harriet Mpairwe, Linda A. Morison   +31 more
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