Parasitic diseases remain a major public health problem affecting hundreds of millions of
people, particularly in tropical developing countries. The limited availability and affordability …

Publisher Summary This chapter provides an overview of human strongyloidiasis.
Strongyloides stercoralis differs from other worms that infect humans. There are both free …

Winner of the 2005 Klinger Book Award Presented by The Society for Economic Botany.
Florida Ethnobotany provides a cross-cultural examination of how the state s native plants …

People customarily use the extracts of plants known to have antidiarrhoeal effects without
any scientific base to explain the action of the extract. For this reason, an investigation was …

This review summarizes research carried out on Jamaican medicinal plants at the Faculty of
Pure and Applied Science, The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, Jamaica …

The in vitro activity of root-tuber-peel extract of Flemingia vestita, an indigenous plant
consumed by the natives in Northeast India, was tested against helminth parasites. Live …

Infectious diseases are caused by pathogenic microorganisms, such as bacteria, viruses,
parasites or fungi. Diseases can spread, directly or indirectly, from one person to another …

Because of the increasing anthelmintic resistance and the impact of conventional
anthelmintics on the environment, it is important to look for alternative strategies against …

Exploring a green chemistry approach, this study brings to the fore, the anthelmintic efficacy
of gold nanoparticles, highlighting the plausible usage of myconanotechnology. Gold …

The rapid development of anthelmintic resistance, associated with the high cost of the
available anthelmintic drugs, had limited the success of gastrointestinal nematodiasis …