In May 2001, the World Health Assembly (WHA) passed a resolution which urged member states to attain, by 2010, a minimum target of regularly administering anthelminthic drugs to at least 75% and up to 100% of all school-aged children at risk of morbidity. The refined global strategy for the prevention and control of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis was issued in the following ...

Levamisole, which is an anthelminthic, can restore depressed cell-mediated immunity (CMI) under some circumstances. In a controlled trial of experimental herpetic keratis in rabbits, levamisole was found to have no significant effect on acute herpetic keratitis or its recurrence rate. This is consistent with previous findings that other nonspecific CMI stimulation had no effect on recurrences o...

Angioedema is an intense often disfiguring but temporary swelling of a localized area which usually involves superficially lying structures like skin, mucosa along with subcutaneous tissues. Areas are affected by angioedema have wide range starting from the face, lips, tongue, pharynx, supraglottic and rarely, subglottic area. It might also effect gastrointestinal mucous membranes, genitalia, h...

agent oriented software engineering (aose) is an emerging field in computer science  and  proposes some systematic ideas for multi agent systems analysis, implementation and maintenance. despite the various methodologies introduced in the agent-oriented software engineering, the main challenges are defects in different aspects of methodologies. according to the defects resulted from weaknesses ...

Two unrelated Bangladeshi women, a 61-year-old with chronic diarrhea, lower abdominal pain, poor appetite, and weight loss for two years with normal physical exam and unremarkable laboratory tests; and a 58-year-old with epigastric pain, bloating, poor appetite, weight loss for three months, and iron-defi ciency anemia, presented for colonoscopy. Colonoscopy revealed two white-colored worms in ...

BACKGROUND Helminth infections and micronutrient deficiencies are highly prevalent in developing countries. Neither condition typically causes overt disease, but they do lead to indirect morbidity such as impaired physical and cognitive development. OBJECTIVE We aimed to systematically review current evidence on the relation of helminth infections with micronutrient status in school-age child...

The World Health Organization recommends anthelminthic treatment for pregnant women after the first trimester in soil-transmitted helminth (STH) endemic regions to prevent adverse maternal-fetal consequences. Although studies have shown the high prevalence of infection in the Philippines, no research has evaluated deworming practices. We hypothesized that pregnant women are not receiving deworm...