Background The soil-transmitted helminths (STH), Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura
and hookworms, infect 1.5 billion people worldwide and cause an estimated burden of 3.3 …

… We systematically searched the following electronic databases with no restriction to date …
The keywords applied for our literature search on schistosomiasis in the electronic databases, …

Soil-transmitted helminths (STHs) are endemic in more than half of the world's countries.
The World Health Organization has advocated targeted preventive chemotherapy (PC) to …

The geographical ranges of most species, including many infectious disease agents and
their vectors and intermediate hosts, are assumed to be constrained by climatic tolerances, …

Background Soil-transmitted helminthiasis affects almost 2 billion people worldwide in
tropical climates. Preventive chemotherapy, using the benzimidazoles (albendazole and …

… The most common intestinal protozoa were E. coli and B. hominis with respective … 2 =
74.68, df = 4, p<0.001) and six of the eight encountered intestinal protozoa (E. histolytica/…

Background Schistosomiasis is a water-based disease that is believed to affect over 200
million people with an estimated 97% of the infections concentrated in Africa. However, these …

Ivermectin and moxidectin, two macrocyclic lactones, are potent antiparasitic drugs currently
registered and mainly used against filarial diseases; however, their potential value for …

Background/Aims: Several limiting factors for human health and performance in microgravity
have been clearly identified arising from the immune system, and substantial research …

… of the various data sources, the data extraction process, the database system and internal
quality checks, the reader is invited to consult recently published papers, eg Hürlimann et al. (…