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�…

The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are the most common conditions affecting the
poorest 500 million people living in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and together produce a�…

Anaemia affects a quarter of the global population, including 293 million (47%) children
younger than 5 years and 468 million (30%) non-pregnant women. In addition to anaemia's�…

Soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections are among the most prevalent of chronic human
infections worldwide. Based on the demonstrable impact on child development, there is a�…

Peter J. Hotez, Donald AP Bundy, Kathleen Beegle, Simon Brooker, Lesley Drake, Nilanthi
de Silva, Antonio Montresor, Dirk Engels, Matthew Jukes, Lester Chitsulo, Jeffrey Chow�…

Climatic changes, together with an increase in the movement of cats and dogs across
Europe, have caused an increase in the geographical range of several vector borne�…

The scientific study of human hookworm infection began at the dawn of the twentieth
century. In recent years, there have been dramatic improvements in our understanding of�…

Background Understanding the global limits of transmission of soil-transmitted helminth
(STH) species is essential for quantifying the population at-risk and the burden of disease�…

Human co-infection with Plasmodium falciparum and helminths is ubiquitous throughout
Africa, although its public health significance remains a topic for which there are many�…

The last half-century of schistosomiasis control activities in China have brought down the
overall prevalence of human infection with Schistosoma japonicum to less than 10% of the�…