ArticleTransactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene2018
Complex interactions in soil-transmitted helminth co-infections from a cross-sectional study in Sri Lanka.
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- The enhancive effect of the 2014-2016 El Niño-induced drought on the control of soil-transmitted helminthiases without anthelmintics: A longitudinal study.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Article
- Getting around the roundworms: Identifying knowledge gaps and research priorities for the ascarids.Advances in parasitology · 2024Article
- Efficacy of Single-Dose Albendazole for the Treatment of Soil-Transmitted Helminthic Infections among School Children in Rwanda-A Prospective Cohort Study.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Mono-Parasitic and Poly-Parasitic Intestinal Infections among Children Aged 36-45 Months in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2023Article
- Effect of probiotics on the intestinal microbiota of patients with giardiasis and ascariasis.Journal of medicine and life · 2022Article
- Co-infection of intestinal helminths in humans and animals in the Philippines.Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene · 2022Article
- Genetic Background Affects the Mucosal Secretory IgA Levels, Parasite Burden, Lung Inflammation, and Mouse Susceptibility toInfection and immunity · 2022Article
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Abstract
Background: Co-infection with multiple soil-transmitted helminth (STH) species is common in communities with a high STH prevalence. The life histories of STH species share important characteristics, particularly in the gut, and there is the potential for interaction, but evidence on whether interactions may be facilitating or antagonistic are limited. Methods: Data from a pretreatment cross-sectional survey of STH egg deposition in a tea plantation community in Sri Lanka were analysed to evaluate patterns of co-infection and changes in egg deposition. Results: There were positive associations between Trichuris trichiura (whipworm) and both Necator americanus (hookworm) and Ascaris lumbricoides (roundworm), but N. americanus and Ascaris were not associated. N. americanus and Ascaris infections had lower egg depositions when they were in single infections than when they were co-infecting. There was no clear evidence of a similar effect of co-infection in Trichuris egg deposition. Conclusions: Associations in prevalence and egg deposition in STH species may vary, possibly indicating that effects of co-infection are species dependent. We suggest that between-species interactions that differ by species could explain these results, but further research in different populations is needed to support this theory.
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