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...

Mechanisms and outcomes of host-parasite interactions during malaria co-infections with gastrointestinal helminths are reasonably understood. In contrast, very little is known about such mechanisms in cases of malaria co-infections with tissue-dwelling parasites. This is lack of knowledge is exacerbated by misdiagnosis, lack of pathognomonic clinical signs and the chronic nature of tissue-dwell...

BACKGROUND Malaria and intestinal helminths co-infection are major public health problems particularly among school age children in Nigeria. However the magnitude and possible interactions of these infections remain poorly understood. This study determined the prevalence, impact and possible interaction of Plasmodium falciparum and intestinal helminths co-infection among school children in rura...

Many Japanese inhabit tropical countries, and some of them are suffering from infectious diseases. In order to know the relationship between the prevalence of these diseases and the degree of faecal pollution of the drinking water, we have examined the drinking water in these countries of the world, and at the same time we have studied the infection rate of intestinal helminths of the Japanese ...

The WHO estimates that almost 2 billion people are infected with one or more of these soil transmitted helminths, accounting for up to 40% of the global morbidity from infectious diseases, excluding malaria. Out of these, approximately 300 million infections result in severe morbidity, which are associated with the heaviest worm burdens. In recent years much new information has been obtained ab...

The immune system is dependent upon a web of small soluble protein molecules that modulate a wide range of potent immune effector mechanisms. These mediators, or cytokines, are secreted by distinct subsets of cells, and exert differential effects on the immune system [1]. Two such groups of cytokines are derived from T cells: type 1 cytokines are broadly inflammatory, and include interferonγ (I...

BACKGROUND In Guangxi, a province of southern China, an important number of dogs and cats roam freely in rural settings, and the presence of these animals in proximity of people may represent a risk of parasitic zoonoses. The objective of the present study was to investigate the presence and identify gastrointestinal helminths in feral carnivores in Guangxi province. Therefore, post mortem exam...