نتایج جستجو برای: helminthiasis

تعداد نتایج: 1842  

2015
Cláudia Frangioia Figueira Márcio Teodoro da Costa Gaspar Lynda Dorene Cos Edson Yassushi Ussami José Pinhata Otoch Aloisio Felipe-Silva

Infection by Strongyloides stercoralis is a highly prevalent helminthiasis, which is mostly distributed in the tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Although a substantial number of cases are asymptomatic or paucisymtomatic, severe and life-threatening forms of this infection still occur and not infrequently is lately diagnosed. Gram-negative bacteria septicemia, which frequently accom...

Journal: :European review for medical and pharmacological sciences 2012
P L Minciullo A Cascio A David L M Pernice G Calapai S Gangemi

BACKGROUND Anaphylaxis is a severe, life-threatening, generalized or systemic hypersensitivity reaction. In many individuals with anaphylaxis a pivotal role is played by IgE and the high-affinity IgE receptor on mast cells or basophils. Less commonly, it is triggered through other immunologic mechanisms, or through nonimmunologic mechanisms. The human immune response to helminth infections is a...

Journal: :African health sciences 2008
Robinah Dumba John B Kaddu Fred Wabwire Mangen

BACKGROUND Intestinal helminthiasis is a debilitating parasitic disease found in many parts of Uganda including Luweero district. In the district, the disease causes as high as 9% morbidity in children below five years. There was very scanty district information on the disease based mainly on hospital records despite this figure. The current study was carried out to provide data to plan for its...

Journal: :The Medical journal of Malaysia 1987
S P Kan M Singh S Singh

Only 8.4% of 1,286 Chinese boys and girls from the ages of 5-12 years in Pulau Ketam were infected with soil-transmitted helminths. The majority of these children had single infections with Trichuris or Ascaris alone. Mixed infections made up less than 5% of all infected cases. The worm burdens of infected children were very low. There was no definite pattern of distribution of infection among ...

2016
Peter J Hotez Ashish Damania Mohsen Naghavi

Although approximately one-half of the global disease burden due to the major helminthic infections occurs among the poor living in rich economies, almost all of the public support for helminth control and research and development comes out of the United States and Europe.

Journal: :Geospatial health 2013
Ronaldo G C Scholte Nadine Schur Maria E Bavia Edgar M Carvalho Frédérique Chammartin Jürg Utzinger Penelope Vounatsou

Soil-transmitted helminths (Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura and hookworm) negatively impact the health and wellbeing of hundreds of millions of people, particularly in tropical and subtropical countries, including Brazil. Reliable maps of the spatial distribution and estimates of the number of infected people are required for the control and eventual elimination of soil-transmitted he...

2014
Moncef Belhassen-García Javier Pardo-Lledías Luis Pérez del Villar Antonio Muro Virginia Velasco-Tirado Ana Blázquez de Castro Belen Vicente Mª Inmaculada García García Juan Luis Muñoz Bellido Miguel Cordero-Sánchez Elaine Alvarenga de Almeida Carvalho

Immigrants from undeveloped countries are a growing problem in Europe. Spain has become a frequent destination for immigrants (20% of whom are children) because of its geographic location and its historic and cultural links with Africa and Latin America. Eosinophilia is frequent in adult immigrants, travelers and expatriates coming from tropical areas. However, there are few studies that focus ...

2008
Khalfan A. Mohammed Hamad J. Haji Albis-Francesco Gabrielli Likezo Mubila Gautam Biswas Lester Chitsulo Mark H. Bradley Dirk Engels Lorenzo Savioli David H. Molyneux

BACKGROUND Public health interventions based on distribution of anthelminthic drugs against lymphatic filariasis (LF), onchocerciasis, soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH) and schistosomiasis have been implemented separately to date. A better use of available resources might be facilitated by a more coordinated approach to control such infections, including the possibility of co-administering t...

Journal: :The Journal of infectious diseases 2004
Rick M Maizels Adam Balic

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