ReviewThe Indian journal of medical research2018
Intervention strategies to reduce the burden of soil-transmitted helminths in India.
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- Interventions to improve water, sanitation, and hygiene for preventing soil-transmitted helminth infection.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Evaluation of opportunities to implement community-wide mass drug administration for interrupting transmission of soil-transmitted helminths infections in India.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2023Trial
- Epidemiology of soil transmitted helminths and risk analysis of hookworm infections in the community: Results from the DeWorm3 Trial in southern India.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021Trial
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- Optimal control strategies supported by system dynamics modelling: a study on hookworm disease in China.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2025Article
- Human Ascaris infection is associated with higher frequencies of IL-10 producing B cells.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Article
- Deworming and micronutrient status by community open defecation prevalence: An observational study using nationally representative data from India, 2016-2018.PLoS medicine · 2024Observational
- A prognostic model for Schistosoma japonicum infection-associated liver hepatocellular carcinoma: strengthening the connection through initial biological experiments.Infectious agents and cancer · 2024Article
- A Case Report of Roundworms Causing Intestinal Obstruction in a Child.Case reports in surgery · 2024Article
- Approaches to Address the Anemia Challenge.The Journal of nutrition · 2023Article
- Strategies to Decrease the Prevalence of Soil-Transmitted Helminths in Central India.Journal of laboratory physicians · 2023Article
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- Comparison of diagnostic performance of single and multiple fecal sampling in the detection of soil-transmitted helminths in school-aged children.Journal of parasitic diseases : official organ of the Indian Society for Parasitology · 2021Article
- Preventive chemotherapy and anthelmintic resistance of soil-transmitted helminths - Can we learn nothing from veterinary medicine?One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2020Review
- Pattern and determinants of soil-transmitted helminthiasis in a rural area of Haryana: A school-based study.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2019Article
- A highly expressed intestinal cysteine protease of Ancylostoma ceylanicum protects vaccinated hamsters from hookworm infection.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2019Article
- A study on intestinal parasitic infections among school children in Karaikal.Tropical parasitologyArticle
- Soil-transmitted Helminths and Associated Risk Factors among Elementary School Pupils in Dadin Kowa, Jos.Nigerian medical journal : journal of the Nigeria Medical AssociationArticle
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Abstract
Soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections continue to be a major global cause of morbidity, with a large proportion of the burden of STH infections occurring in India. In addition to direct health impacts of these infections, including anaemia and nutritional deficiencies in children, these infections also significantly impact economic development, as a result of delays in early childhood cognitive development and future income earning potential. The current World Health Organization strategy for STH is focused on morbidity control through the application of mass drug administration to all pre-school-aged and school-aged children. In India, the control of STH-related morbidity requires mobilization of significant human and financial resources, placing additional burdens on limited public resources. Infected adults and untreated children in the community act as a reservoir of infection by which treated children get rapidly reinfected. As a result, deworming programmes will need to be sustained indefinitely in the absence of other strategies to reduce reinfection, including water, hygiene and sanitation interventions (WASH). However, WASH interventions require sustained effort by the government or other agencies to build infrastructure and to promote healthy behavioural modifications, and their effectiveness is often limited by deeply entrenched cultural norms and behaviours. Novel strategies must be explored to provide a lasting solution to the problem of STH infections in India other than the indefinite provision of deworming for morbidity control.
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