Schistosomiasis is a disease caused by parasitic trematode worms (schistosomes) that
currently affects 200 million people living in tropical and subtropical environments. It is a …

Pre-school age children account for 10%–20% of the 2 billion people worldwide who are
infected with soil-transmitted helminths (STHs): Ascaris lumbricoides (roundworm), Trichuris …

Incorporating a Rapid-Impact Package for Neglected Tropical Diseases with Programs for
HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria | PLOS Medicine Skip to main content Advertisement …

AIDS and the Ecology of Poverty combines the insights of economics and biology to explain
the spread of HIV/AIDS and deliver a telling critique of AIDS policy. Drawing on a wealth of …

To determine whether helminth‐derived products modulate dendritic cell (DC) function, we
investigated the effects of excretory‐secretory products (ES) and adult worm homogenate …

Helminthiases, which are highly prevalent in areas where malaria is endemic, have been
shown to modulate or suppress the immune response to unrelated antigens or pathogens. In …

On a global basis, both potent vaccine efficacy and high vaccine coverage are necessary to
control and eliminate vaccine-preventable diseases. Emerging evidence from animal and …

Background Antiretroviral therapy (ART) partially corrects immune dysfunction associated
with HIV infection. The levels of T-cell immune activation and exhaustion after long-term …

Chronic immune activation is one of the hallmarks of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
infection. It is present also, with very similar characteristics, in very large human populations …

It has recently been suggested that helminth infections may adversely influence
susceptibility to other infections, including malaria. To investigate this hypothesis in a sub …