"Helminthiasis, also known as worm infection, is any macroparasitic disease of humans and other animals in which a part of the body is infected with parasitic worms, known as helminths."
Parasitic worms that infest humans and animals, including nematodes, cestodes, and trematodes. Covers morphology, life cycles, epidemiology, and treatment.
Taxonomy of Helminths: This topic covers the classification and hierarchy of helminth parasites based on their morphology, anatomy and other characteristics.
Life cycle of Helminths: This topic explains the various stages of development and reproduction of helminths including their intermediate hosts and final hosts.
Epidemiology of Helminths: This topic deals with the prevalence, distribution, and transmission of helminth infections in humans and animals.
Pathogenesis of Helminths: This topic covers the mechanisms by which helminths cause disease and how they evade host immunity.
Diagnosis of Helminths: This topic discusses the different diagnostic methods used to identify helminth infections, including microscopy, serology, and molecular techniques.
Treatment of Helminths: This topic covers the various drugs, chemotherapy and alternative therapies used to treat helminth infections.
Control and Prevention of Helminths: This topic discusses the strategies for controlling and preventing helminth infections and their associated diseases.
Zoonotic Helminths: This topic covers the helminths that are transmitted from animals to humans and the disease they cause.
Vector-borne Helminths: This topic deals with helminths that are transmitted by arthropod vectors such as mosquitoes and ticks.
Emerging and Reemerging Helminth Infections: This topic discusses the new and emerging helminth infections that pose a threat to public health.
Helminth Infections in Immunocompromised Patients: This topic covers the specific helminth infections that can affect immunocompromised patients such as those with HIV/AIDS.
Helminth-induced Allergy and Autoimmunity: This topic explains how helminths can induce allergies and autoimmune diseases in humans.
Helminth Therapy: This topic discusses the potential therapeutic uses of helminths in treating autoimmune diseases, allergies, and other conditions.
Helminth Proteomics and Genomics: This topic covers the molecular biology of helminths, including their proteomes, transcriptomes, and genomes.
Helminths and One Health: This topic discusses the interrelatedness of animal and human health in relation to helminth infections.
Nemathelminthes or Nematodes: These are roundworms that inhabit various animals and humans. They cause diseases like Ascariasis, Hookworm disease, Whipworm disease, and Filariasis.
Platyhelminths or Flatworms: They are flat-bodied worms, including tapeworms and flukes. Tapeworms infect the digestive system of mammals, including humans, while Flukes infect the liver, intestines, and other organs of humans.
Acanthocephala or thorny-headed worms: These are aquatic helminths that possess an external proboscis with hooks. Their intermediate hosts are crustaceans, while their definitive hosts are fish or reptiles.
Pentastomida or tongue worms: They are small and parasitic helminths, which mainly infect reptiles, birds, and mammals, including humans. They are common in tropical regions and cause respiratory problems.
Cestodes or tapeworms: They are segmented worms parasitic in vertebrates' small intestine. They can reach several meters in length and can cause a lot of damage to the digestive system.
Monogenea or monogenetic flukes: These are exclusively ectoparasites of fishes, whereas polystomatids affect vertebrates such as frogs.
"There are numerous species of these parasites, which are broadly classified into tapeworms, flukes, and roundworms."
"They often live in the gastrointestinal tract of their hosts but they may also burrow into other organs, where they induce physiological damage."
"Soil-transmitted helminthiasis and schistosomiasis are the most important helminthiases."
"These group of helminthiases have been targeted under the joint action of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies and non-governmental organizations through a project launched in 2012 called the London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases."
"...a project launched in 2012 called the London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases..."
"...which aimed to control or eradicate certain neglected tropical diseases by 2020."
"Helminthiasis has been found to result in poor birth outcome, poor cognitive development, poor school and work performance, poor socioeconomic development, and poverty."
"Chronic illness, malnutrition, and anemia are further examples of secondary effects."
"Soil-transmitted helminthiases are responsible for parasitic infections in as much as a quarter of the human population worldwide."
"One well-known example of soil-transmitted helminthiases is ascariasis."
"...broadly classified into tapeworms, flukes, and roundworms."
"They may also burrow into other organs, where they induce physiological damage."
"...the joint action of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies and non-governmental organizations through a project..."
"...poor socioeconomic development, and poverty."
"...result in poor birth outcome, poor cognitive development..."
"Chronic illness, malnutrition, and anemia are further examples of secondary effects."
"Soil-transmitted helminthiases are responsible for parasitic infections in as much as a quarter of the human population worldwide."
"...through a project launched in 2012 called the London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases..."
"One well-known example of soil-transmitted helminthiases is ascariasis."