It has been tested and proven that vaccination is still the best strategy to combat infectious
diseases. However, to date, there are still no vaccines against human soil-transmitted …

Parasitic helminths infect over one-fourth of the human population resulting in significant
morbidity, and in some cases, death in endemic countries. Despite mass drug administration …

The major soil-transmitted helminths that infect humans are the roundworms, whipworms
and hookworms. Soil-transmitted helminth infections rank among the most important …

Soil-transmitted helminths (STHs) collectively infect one fourth of all human beings, and the
majority of livestock in the developing world. These gastrointestinal nematodes are the most …

Helminths contribute a larger global burden of disease than both malaria and tuberculosis.
These eukaryotes have caused human infections since before our earliest recorded history …

Intestinal helminths infect approximately 2 billion people worldwide. Worm burdens correlate
with disease morbidity and children generally harbor the largest numbers. The majority of …

Introduction: Human infections with helminth worm parasites are extraordinarily prevalent
across tropical and subtropical parts of the world, and control relies primarily on drugs that …

Hookworm infection is one of the most important parasitic infections of humans, possibly
outranked only by malaria as a cause of misery and suffering. An estimated 1.2 billion …

Helminth infections are the most common afflictions of humankind, affecting almost every
single person living in profound poverty. Through mass drug administration (MDA) we have …

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 …