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infestation of the body with parasitic worms

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Hookworms

Helminthiasis is a macroparasitic disease of humans and animals in which a part of the body is infested with parasitic worms such as pinworm, roundworm, or tapeworm. Typically, the worms reside in the gastrointestinal tract but may also burrow into the liver or other organs.

Several types of soil-transmitted helminthiases are considered neglected diseases.

Helminthiasis can have immunomodulatory effects on the host,^[1] with implications for any coinfecting pathogens.

Diseases

Ancylostomiasis (hookworm infection)
Ascariasis (nematode infection)
Filariasis (nematode infection)
Onchocerciasis (nematode infection)
Schistosomiasis (platyhelminth infection)
Trichuriasis (nematode infection)

References

^ Van Riet et al. (2007) Chronic helminth infections induce immunomodulation: consequences and mechanisms Immunobiology, 212(6):475-9

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English Journal

Epidemiology of helminthiasis in a hospital in southern Madrid.

Vázquez-López S, Cenzual-Álvarez G, Merino-Fernández FJ.SourceServicio de Microbiología y Parasitología, Hospital Universitario Severo Ochoa, Leganés, Madrid, España. Electronic address: shemahlet@hotmail.com.
Revista clinica espanola.Rev Clin Esp.2013 Mar;213(2):122-124. doi: 10.1016/j.rce.2012.09.008. Epub 2012 Nov 15.
PMID 23158904

Efficacy and toxicity of thirteen plant leaf acetone extracts used in ethnoveterinary medicine in South Africa on egg hatching and larval development of Haemonchus contortus.

Adamu M, Naidoo V, Eloff JN.AbstractABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Helminthiasis is a major limitation to the livestock industry in Africa. Haemonchus contortus is the singular most important helminth responsible for major economic losses in small ruminants. The high cost of anthelmintics to small farmers, resistance to available anthelmintics and residue problems in meat and milk consumed by humans further complicates matters. The use of plants and plant extracts as a possible source of new anthelmintics has received more interest in the last decade. Our aim was not to confirm the traditional use, but rather to determine activity of extracts.Based on our past experience acetone was used as extractant. Because it is cheaper and more reproducible to evaluate the activity of plant extracts, than doing animal studies, the activity of acetone leaf extracts of thirteen plant species used traditionally in ethnoveterinary medicine in South Africa were determined using the egg hatch assay and the larval development test. Cytotoxicity of these extracts was also evaluated using the MTT cellular assay.
BMC veterinary research.BMC Vet Res.2013 Feb 26;9(1):38. [Epub ahead of print]
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Helminthiasis is a major limitation to the livestock industry in Africa. Haemonchus contortus is the singular most important helminth responsible for major economic losses in small ruminants. The high cost of anthelmintics to small farmers, resistance to available anthelmintics
PMID 23442744

Japanese Journal

Parasitic Helminths Found from Imported Crab-Eating Macaques (Macaca fascicularis) in a Quarantine Station of an Experimental Animal Supplying Company and its Epidemiological Point of View in Japan

浅川満彦
獣医疫学雑誌 14(1), 29-30, 2010
… Since 2007, I have been consulted from a veterinary officer belonging to an experimental animal supplying company in Japan with helminths and/or helminthiasis obtained/found from the macaques during the quarantine period. …
NAID 130000438066