Soil-transmitted helminth infections: ascariasis, trichuriasis, and hookworm.

By J. Bethony, S. Brooker, M. Albonico, S. Geiger, A. Loukas, D. Diemert, Peter Hotez. The Lancet, 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Parasitology, Small Animals

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• The concept and future prospects of soil health (2020, neutral): “Furthermore, soils are also the source of parasitic worms (helminthiasis) that can live for years in the human gastrointestinal tract, cause malnutrition and result in stunted development 46 .”
• The Neglected Tropical Diseases of Latin America and the Caribbean: A Review of Disease Burden and Distribution and a Roadmap for Control and Elimination (2008, background): “Hookworm infection 1.5–22.1 million 50 million (576 million) 8.7% 130,500–1,923,000 [17, 75 ]”
• Efficacy of current drugs against soil-transmitted helminth infections: systematic review and meta-analysis. (2008, background): “2 billion individuals might be infected with A lumbricoides, close to 800 million with T trichiura, and more than 700 million with hookworm.(1,3) Infection intensity is a key factor in understanding the morbidity of STH; although light infections are often asymptomatic, heavy infections cause an arr”