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Effect of Sanitation on Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infection: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS Medicine, 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 ...
Daniel Mäusezahl   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Water, Sanitation, Hygiene, and Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS Medicine, 2014
BACKGROUND: Preventive chemotherapy represents a powerful but short-term control strategy for soil-transmitted helminthiasis. Since humans are often re-infected rapidly, long-term solutions require improvements in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH ...
Jürg Utzinger   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Soil-Transmitted Helminth Reinfection after Drug Treatment: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2012
BACKGROUND: Soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections (i.e., Ascaris lumbricoides, hookworm, and Trichuris trichiura) affect more than a billion people. Preventive chemotherapy (i.e., repeated administration of anthelmintic drugs to at-risk populations),
Jürg Utzinger   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

The yin and yang of human soil-transmitted helminth infections

International Journal for Parasitology, 2021
The major soil-transmitted helminths that infect humans are the roundworms, whipworms and hookworms. Soil-transmitted helminth infections rank among the most important neglected tropical diseases in terms of morbidity, and almost one billion people are still infected with at least one species.
Peter J. Hotez   +2 more
exaly   +4 more sources

Soil-transmitted helminth infections in South America

The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2014
www.thelancet.com/infection Vol 14 March 2014 183 transmitted helminths are eliminated or controlled by use of albendazole in massive drug administration programmes, some signs such as chronic diarrhoea and weight loss could persist because S stercoralis was not effectively treated, which furthermore increases the risk of this population for ...
Luis A, Marcos, Jorge D, Machicado
openaire   +4 more sources

Soil-transmitted helminth infections: ascariasis, trichuriasis, and hookworm

Lancet, The, 2006
The three main soil-transmitted helminth infections, ascariasis, trichuriasis, and hookworm, are common clinical disorders in man. The gastrointestinal tract of a child living in poverty in a less developed country is likely to be parasitised with at least one, and in many cases all three soil-transmitted helminths, with resultant impairments in ...
Peter J. Hotez   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

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