Health metrics for helminth infections

Maternal helminth infections.

© Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 W. Horsnell (ed.), How Helminths Alter Immunity to Infection, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 828, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4939-1489-0_2 C. Prazeres da Costa () · K. Straubinger Department of Parasitology, Institute of Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, Technische Universität München, Trogerstrasse 30, 81675 Munich, Germany e-m...

Pregnancy and helminth infections

It has been proposed that helminth infection may be particularly detrimental during pregnancy, through adverse effects on maternal anaemia and on birth outcomes, and that anthelminthic treatment during pregnancy will therefore be particularly beneficial. However, the few treatment trials that have been conducted have given, but little support to this notion and further trials in settings of nut...

The reasons for helminth infections in hosts.

A maximum capacity of the host to parasites is very diverse so intensive infections (hiperinfections) are noticed repeatedly. The reasons for their occurrence can be divided based on the factors related to the biology and ecology of hosts: age, body size, food habits, anatomical and behavioral factors, monoxenous life cycle of parasites, environmental changes, contamination of the environment b...

Vaccination against helminth parasite infections.

Helminth parasites infect over one fourth of the human population and are highly prevalent in livestock worldwide. In model systems, parasites are strongly immunomodulatory, but the immune system can be driven to expel them by prior vaccination. However, no vaccines are currently available for human use. Recent advances in vaccination with recombinant helminth antigens have been successful agai...

Helminth infections: Domestic ruminants: Introduction