Browsing Medicine by Subject "Helminth infections"

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Helminth infections: soil-transmitted helminth infections and schistosomiasis

Hotez, P. J.; Bundy, D.A.P.; Beegle, K.; Brooker, S.; Drake, L.; de Silva, N.; Montresor, A.; Engels, D.; Jukes, M.; Chitsulo, L.; Chow, J.; Laxminarayan, R.; Michaud, C. M.; Bethony, J.; Correa-Oliviera, R.; Xiao Shu-Hua; Fenwick, A.; Savioli, L. (Oxford University Press and World Bank, 2006)
Impact of helminth infection on childhood allergic diseases in an area in transition from high to low infection burden

Amarasekera, M.; Gunawardena, N.K.; de Silva, N.R.; Douglass, J.A.; O Hehir, R.E.; Weerasinghe, A. (Asia Pacific Association of Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology, 2012)

BCKGROUND: The effect of helminth infections on allergic diseases is still inconclusive. Furthermore, the effect of helminth infections on childhood allergic diseases in a tropical area where prevalence of helminth ...
Reassessment of the prevalence of soil-transmitted helminth infections in Sri Lanka to enable a more focused control programme: a cross-sectional national school survey with spatial modelling

Ediriweera, D.S.; Gunawardena, S.; Gunawardena, N.K.; Iddawela, D.; Kannathasan, S.; Murugananthan, A.; Yahathugoda, C.; Pathmeswaran, A.; Diggle, P. J.; de Silva, N. (Elsevier, 2019)

BACKGROUND:In Sri Lanka, deworming programmes for soil-transmitted helminth infections became an integral part of school health in the 1960s, whereas routine antenatal deworming with mebendazole started in the 1980s. A ...

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