ReviewThe Pan African medical journal2020
Soil transmitted helminth infections in Ghana: a ten year review.
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- Soil-Transmitted Helminthes (STHs) and Asymptomatic Bacteriuria Amongst Preschool Children in the Bosomtwe District of Ghana.BioMed research international · 2026Article
- Navigating the Parasitic Landscape: Insights into Infection Patterns and Public Health Strategies in West Africa.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2025Review
- Prevalence and Hematological Changes in Urogenital Schistosomiasis: Infection Persistence in the Phase of Mass Drug Administration in Sempoa (Kwahu East, Ghana): A Cross-Sectional Study.Health science reports · 2025Article
- Intestinal Parasitic Infections in Ghana: A Review of Infections and the Risk of Zoonotic Transmission.BioMed research international · 2025Review
- Prevalence and determinants of Soil-Transmitted Helminths among urban vegetable farmers in Ghana.PloS one · 2025Article
- Assessment of enteric helminth parasites in bushmeat in Ghana.International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2024Article
- Infections with Soil-Transmitted Helminths in BaAka Pygmies Inhabiting the Rain Forests in the Central African Republic.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Knowledge, Perceptions, Challenges and opportunities in achieving sustainable coverage of mass drug administration towards the control and elimination of Schistosomiasis and Soil Transmitted Helminths in hard-to-reach communities of Ghana.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Article
- Influence of fecal fermentation on the anthelmintic activity of proanthocyanidins and ellagitannins against human intestinal nematodes andFrontiers in pharmacology · 2024Article
- Preliminary Screening for the Anthelmintic Activity ofJournal of parasitology research · 2024Article
- Foodborne Microbiological Hazards in Ghana: A Scoping Review.Environmental health insights · 2024Article
- Side Effects following School Deworming among School-Age Children in Oti Region, Ghana.Journal of tropical medicine · 2024Article
- Anthelmintic resistance in soil-transmitted helminths: One-Health considerations.Parasitology research · 2023Review
- Microbial food safety of lettuce produced under irrigated wastewater from Onyasia River in Ghana.Heliyon · 2023Article
- Iron supplementation and deworming during pregnancy reduces the risk of anemia and stunting in infants less than 2 years of age: a study from Sub-Saharan Africa.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Article
- Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice towards Prevention of Intestinal Helminth Infection among Residents of the Ho Municipality in the Volta Region of Ghana.Journal of parasitology research · 2023Article
- Factors determining preventive chemotherapy uptake against soil-transmitted helminthiasis among school-age children in Ghana.Parasitology research · 2022Article
- Intestinal Helminth Infections in Ghanaian Children from the Ashanti Region between 2007 and 2008-A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Real-Time PCR-Based Assessment.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2022Article
- Application of multiplex amplicon deep-sequencing (MAD-seq) to screen for putative drug resistance markers in the Necator americanus isotype-1 β-tubulin gene.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- [School-age children'S knowledge and perceptions concerning Soil-transmitted Helminthiases and Targeted Preventive Chemotherapy in Ghana's Oti Region].Medecine tropicale et sante internationale · 2022Article
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Abstract
For more than a decade, intervention programs have been instituted in Ghana to combat soil transmitted helminth (STHs) infections. Knowledge of the trend of the infection in the country is needed for evaluation and modification of existing control programs to achieve national targets. The objective of this review is to examine the pattern of soil transmitted infections in Ghana between 2009-2018. We searched and reviewed published literature on soil transmitted helminths in Ghana in PubMed, Medline, Google Scholar and Institutional Repositories of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, University of Ghana, University of Cape Coast, and University for Development Studies-Tamale. We observed paucity of research work on STHs in Ghana over the period of this review. Twenty-nine studies consisting of 24 published works in peer reviewed journals and five graduate theses were included in the study. Hookworm was the most prevalent of STHs recorded followed by roundworm, threadworm, and whipworm. Pinworm was very rarely reported. These infections were reported from different regions and ecological zones of the country and among children, pregnant women, farmers, food vendors, children in orphanage home and psychiatric institution. Although there is some downward trend over the period, soil transmitted helminths are still prevalent in Ghana. This is an indication of some hope of eventual control and elimination of these diseases in the country if control measures are optimised. Further research particularly population studies into soil transmitted helminths in Ghana is needed.
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