Helminthic parasites are important targets for vaccine research as they infect an estimated 1
billion people worldwide. Despite significant progress in the discovery of defined antigens …

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 …

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 …

Helminths are multicellular pathogens which infect vast numbers of human and animal
hosts, causing widspread chronic disease and morbidity, Vaccination against these …

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 …

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 …

Soil-transmitted helminths affect approximately 1.5 billion people worldwide. However, as no
vaccine is currently available for humans, the current strategy for elimination as a public …

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

This third volume in the successful'Drug Discovery in Infectious Diseases' series is the first to
deal with drug discovery in helminthic infections in human and animals. The result is a broad …

Among the tools available for the control of helminth infections, chemotherapy has come to
totally dominate the field. In the veterinary field, development of drug resistance has …