نتایج جستجو برای: geohelminth

تعداد نتایج: 119  

Journal: :Public health nutrition 2014
Fernanda Cobayashi Rosângela Aparecida Augusto Bárbara Hatzlhoffer Lourenço Pascoal Torres Muniz Marly Augusto Cardoso

OBJECTIVE To examine the prevalence of stunting and overweight in children and identify demographic, socio-economic and maternal characteristics, as well as biochemical indicators, associated with these outcomes. DESIGN A population-based, cross-sectional study was performed. Data from structured questionnaires, anthropometric measurements, and blood and stool samples were used in Poisson reg...

2009
Linda S Cox

A number of biological agents are available or being investigated for the treatment of asthma and rhinitis. The safety profiles of these biologic agents, which may modify allergic and immunological diseases, are still being elucidated. Subcutaneous allergen immunotherapy, the oldest biologic agent in current use, has the highest of frequency of the most serious and life-threatening reaction, an...

2015
John Rubaihayo Nazarius M Tumwesigye Joseph Konde-Lule

BACKGROUND Trends in prevalence of opportunistic infections (OIs) associated with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in resource poor settings have previously not been well documented. The objective of this study was to describe the trends in prevalence of Diarrhoea, Bacterial pneumonia, Kaposi's sarcoma, Malaria and Geohelminths among HIV positive individuals over a 12 year period in Ugand...

Journal: :Trends in parasitology 2005
Shahram Solaymani-Mohammadi Mostafa Rezaian M Ali Anwar

Th2 responses without atopy: immunoregulation in chronic helminth infections and reduced allergic disease. Trends Immunol. 22, 372–377 9 van den Biggelaar, A.H. et al. (2000) Decreased atopy in children infected with Schistosoma haematobium: a role for parasite-induced interleukin-10. Independent effects of intestinal parasite infection and domestic allergen exposure on risk of wheeze in Ethiop...

Journal: :The Science of the total environment 2002
P W Abrahams

This paper reviews how the health of humans is affected by the world's soils, an association that to date has been under appreciated and under reported. Soils significantly influence a variety of functions (e.g. as a plant growth medium; its importance on the cycling of water; as a foundation for buildings) that sustains the human population. Through ingestion (either deliberate or involuntary)...

2010
Aprilianto E Wiria Margaretta A Prasetyani Firdaus Hamid Linda J Wammes Bertrand Lell Iwan Ariawan Hae Won Uh Heri Wibowo Yenny Djuardi Sitti Wahyuni Inge Sutanto Linda May Adrian JF Luty Jaco J Verweij Erliyani Sartono Maria Yazdanbakhsh Taniawati Supali

BACKGROUND Given that helminth infections are thought to have strong immunomodulatory activity, the question whether helminth infections might affect responses to malaria antigens needs to be addressed. Different cross-sectional studies using diverse methodologies have reported that helminth infections might either exacerbate or reduce the severity of malaria attacks. The same discrepancies hav...

2009
J. BEJSOVEC

Bej§ovec, J.: Permanent Transmission of Endoparasites in Large Herds of Cattle. Acta vet. Bmo,60, 1991: 205-212. Calving houses were found to be cohtaminated with endoparasites by the first crop of pregnant cows arriving in the new premises. No significant differences were found in the incidence of endoparasite species between new and old calving houses by' artalysis of variance. The proportion...

2012
David C Taylor-Robinson Nicola Maayan Karla Soares-Weiser Sarah Donegan Paul Garner

BACKGROUND The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends treating all school children at regular intervals with deworming drugs in areas where helminth infection is common. The WHO state this will improve nutritional status, haemoglobin, and cognition and thus will improve health, intellect, and school attendance. Consequently, it is claimed that school performance will improve, child mortalit...

2005
S. P Walker C. M. Olson E. A. Frongillo

The objective was to determine if a relationship exists between participation in a school breakfast program and measures of psychosocial and academic functioning in school aged children. Information on participation in a school breakfast program, school record data, and in depth interviews with parents and children were collected in 1 public school in Philadelphia, PA, and 2 public schools in B...

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