REVIEWER COMMENTS. These findings further support the role of environmental factors in the development of allergic disease. Limitations of this study, however, include selfreport of allergic disease without clinical verification. The majority of the participants currently reside in a metropolitan area, and it is unknown what proportion of foreignborn familiesmoved from a developing country (com...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the effects of a pedagogical intervention on the learning of children and teenagers participating in a clinical research. METHODS Quantitative, quasi-experimental and longitudinal study, part of a group of studies conducted to test a vaccine against ancylostomiasis. Convenience sample with 133 students aged 10-17 years, of both sexes, from the school Escola Municipal de M...

Background South Sudan has rolled out a neglected tropical disease programme, which envisaged deworming campaigns in states endemic for soil transmitted helminth infections and schistosomiasis. Methods In 2016, two deworming campaigns targeting school-age children were performed in Central Equatoria. Distribution sites were set up in primary schools, Boma Health Initiative headquarters, healt...

Despite evidence for the existence of interspecific interactions between helminth species, there has been no theoretical exploration of their effect on the distribution of the parasite species in a host population. We use a deterministic model for the accumulation and loss of adult worms of 2 interacting helminth species to motivate an individual-based stochastic model. The mean worm burden and...

The author wish to make the following correction to this paper [1]: The author name " Lwanga Francis " should be " Francis Lwanga " .

BACKGROUND Rural communities in the Amazonian southern border of Ecuador have benefited from governmental social programmes over the past 9 years, which have addressed, among other things, diseases associated with poverty, such as soil transmitted helminth infections. The aim of this study was to explore the prevalence of geohelminth infection and several factors associated with it in these com...

The nature of this paper is such as to require a few words of personal explanation. Having received several valuable manuscripts on the subject of Filariasis and other more or less nearly allied helminthic affections, and having been accorded every reasonable license at the hands of the respective writers, I have communicated the contents of these papers, either in whole or in part, to various ...

In the past, and still today, people living in the developing world have been, and continue to be, repeatedly exposed to a number of endemic parasitic diseases which impose an intolerable economic, health and social burden on their societies (Stoll, 1947; Sachs and Malaney, 2002). Among the parasitic diseases, malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum inflicts the largest burden (Snow et al., 2005)....

BACKGROUND South Africa has endorsed a World Health Assembly (WHA) resolution calling for control of soil-transmitted helminths (STHs). In Cape Town, services and housing that exist in old-established suburbs should minimise the prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections, even when residents are poor. Where families live in shacks in densely-populated areas without effective sanitation, more...