Parasitic helminths must establish chronic infections to complete their life cycle and
therefore are potent modulators of multiple facets of host physiology. Parasitic helminths …

Helminths, including nematodes, cestodes and trematodes, are complex parasitic organisms
that infect at least one billion people globally living in extreme poverty. Helminthic infections …

Parasitic helminths infect well over one billion people and typically cause chronic and
recurrent infections that exert a considerable toll on human health and productivity. A …

The same mechanisms that enable host defense against helminths also drive allergic
inflammation. This suggests that pathomechanisms of allergic diseases represent …

The profile of global health today presents a striking reciprocal distribution between parasitic
diseases in many of the world's lower-income countries, and ever-increasing levels of …

Inflammatory diseases are on the rise in westernized countries, but also in urbanized areas
of developing countries. A number of studies have now demonstrated a negative association …

Helminth infection is a worldwide health problem. In addition to directly causing disease,
helminthic infection also affects the incidence and progression of other diseases by exerting …

Background Helminth parasites have been reported to have beneficial immunomodulatory
effects in patients with allergic and autoimmune conditions and detrimental consequences in …

It has been shown that the presence of certain helminth infections in humans, including
schistosomes, may reduce the propensity to develop allergies in infected populations. Using …

Helminth parasite infections are associated with a battery of immunomodulatory
mechanisms that affect all facets of the host immune response to ensure their persistence …