Background Cooking and heating remain the most energy intensive activities among the
world's poor, and thus improved access to clean energies for these tasks has been …

Soil-transmitted helminths (STH) refer to several parasitic nematode species that infect over
1 billion people worldwide. Infections with Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, and the …

There is limited knowledge about the survival of geohelminths, which are soil-transmitted
human pathogens, in mesophilic anaerobic digestion processes. This study examined the …

In many developing countries where pathogenic diseases of animal waste origin, such as
giardiasis and cryptosporidiosis, are often prevalent, facilities are limited to treat livestock …

Anaerobic digestion is a biochemical process in which organic carbon is biodegraded in an
oxygen free environment through a microbial consortium. Engineered biological systems …

Background Human waste is used as an agricultural fertilizer in China and elsewhere.
Because the eggs of many helminth species can survive in environmental media, reuse of …

Human excreta is a low cost source of nutrients vital to plant growth, but also a source of
pathogens transmissible to people and animals. We investigated the cost-savings and …

In low-income, urban, informal communities lacking sewerage and solid waste services,
onsite sanitation (sludges, aqueous effluent) and child feces are potential sources of human …

Increasing evidence shows that the host gut microbiota might be involved in the
immunological cascade that culminates with the formation of tissue granulomas underlying …

China's domestic biogas programme has now reached around 100 million people,
supplying a quarter of rural households with biogas digesters. This technology allows …