The Geshiyaro Project: a study protocol for developing a scalable model of interventions for moving towards the interruption of the transmission of soil-transmitted …

K Mekete, A Ower, J Dunn, H Sime, G Tadesse… - Parasites & vectors, 2019 - Springer
Background National deworming programmes rely almost exclusively on mass drug
administration (MDA) to children to control morbidity caused by these parasitic infections …

A review on the current knowledge and prospects for the development of improved detection methods for soil-transmitted helminth ova for the safe reuse of wastewater …

VB Ravindran, SK Soni, AS Ball - Water, 2019 - mdpi.com
Climate change, increase in population and scarcity of freshwater have led to a global
demand for wastewater reuse in irrigation. However, wastewater has to be treated in order to …

Efficacy and safety of triple therapy versus dual therapy for lymphatic filariasis: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

MT Abuelazm, B Abdelazeem, H Badr… - Tropical Medicine & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Lymphatic filariasis is a serious public health issue. Recent studies showed that a
single dosage of triple therapy (Ivermectin, Diethylcarbamazepine, and Albendazole) is …

An open label, randomized clinical trial to compare the tolerability and efficacy of ivermectin plus diethylcarbamazine and albendazole vs. diethylcarbamazine plus …

T Supali, Y Djuardi, M Christian… - PLoS neglected …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Improved treatments for lymphatic filariasis (LF) could accelerate the global elimination
program for this disease. A triple drug combination of the anti-filarial drugs ivermectin …

Detection of helminth ova in wastewater using recombinase polymerase amplification coupled to lateral flow strips

VB Ravindran, B Khallaf, A Surapaneni, ND Crosbie… - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
Ascaris lumbricoides is a major soil-transmitted helminth that is highly infective to humans.
The ova of A. lumbricoides are able to survive wastewater treatment, thus making it an …

Viability determination of Ascaris ova in raw wastewater: a comparative evaluation of culture-based, BacLight Live/Dead staining and PMA-qPCR methods

VB Ravindran, E Shahsavari, SK Soni… - Water Science and …, 2019 - iwaponline.com
Accurate evaluation of viable Ascaris ova in wastewater is the key to mitigating Ascaris
reinfections in endemic regions. In this study, the viability of Ascaris ova in raw wastewater …

[HTML][HTML] Testing the infection prevalence of Schistosoma mansoni after mass drug administration by comparing sensitivity and specificity of species-specific repeat …

M Price, A Cyrs, CS Sikasunge… - The American Journal …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Schistosomiasis is a blood parasitic disease caused by trematode parasites of the genus
Schistosoma. Schistosoma mansoni is one of the main contributors of the disease and 90 …

A feasibility test of a large-scale implementation of schistosomiasis elimination under China-Zimbabwe cooperation: a pilot study protocol

Y Qian, N MIDZI, LI Shizhu, MJ MUTSAKA-MAKUVAZA… - 2024 - researchsquare.com
Background Schistosomiasis is amongst the leading Neglected Tropical Diseases in terms
of its public health significance in Africa accounting for up to 90% of the global burden …

Molecular Cellular Parasitology: The Decades and Challenges Ahead

MC Field - Frontiers in Parasitology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Our civilization faces unprecedented challenges, many the result of past inaction (Broecker,
1975). The COVID-19 pandemic drives on in much of the world, there is new war in Europe …

[图书][B] Bioética de las enfermedades tropicales desatendidas

FFA Narváez - 2019 - researchgate.net
“La historia comienza” es el título de un libro del israelí Amos Oz. Lleva por subtítulo
“Ensayos de literatura”. Tras unos comentarios sobre el trabajo “sesudo” de su padre (quien …