Helminth infection–induced malignancy

Helminth infection–induced malignancy

1 Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, School of Medicine & Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington DC, United States of America, 2 Research Center for Neglected Tropical Diseases of Poverty, School of Medicine & Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington DC, United States of America, 3 Centre for Biodiscovery and Molecular Devel...

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...

The therapeutic helminth?

By definition, parasites harm their hosts. Yet substantial evidence from animal models of human disease support the hypothesis that infection with helminths can suppress the development of other maladies. Here, the view is presented that assessment of the immunophysiological response to helminths could identify that infection with specific parasites would be therapeutically useful (although man...

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...

Chronic Helminth Infection Reduces