As national programmes respond to the new opportunities presented for scaling up
preventive chemotherapy programmes for the coadministration of drugs to target lymphatic …

Background In malaria endemic areas, fever has been used as an entry point for
presumptive treatment of malaria. At present, the decrease in malaria transmission in Africa …

BACKGROUND: In Sub-Saharan Africa, some individuals infected with malaria are also
infected with helminths. However, the magnitude and distribution of such coinfections in …

The world is focusing on poverty and Africa, thanks to the recent four-country visit of UK
Chancellor Gordon Brown, 1 the Davos summit, the focus on progress towards the …

The majority of experiments investigating the immune response to gastrointestinal helminth
infection use a single bolus infection. However, in situ individuals are repeatedly infected …

The control of parasitic diseases of humans has been undertaken since the aetiology and
natural history of the infections was recognized and the deleterious effects on human health …

Background School age children are one of the groups at high risk for intestinal parasitic
infections especially in developing countries like Ethiopia as the supply of good quality …

There is a need for accurate diagnosis of intestinal parasite infections in humans, but
currently available copromicroscopic techniques have shortcomings, such as low sensitivity …

A significant proportion of vulnerable people in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remain at risk for
contracting diarrhoeal diseases due to the presence of many risk factors facilitating their …

This study was conducted to investigate the presence of intestinal parasites among pre-
school children (aged 3 months to 5 years) in Sangkhlaburi, a rural district in the west of …