Overview on Ascariasis in Humans in South Asia

摘要: Ascaris lumbricoides, a member of the soil-transmitted helminths, infects staggering 800 million people yearly [1, 2]. It is hard to fully comprehend worldwide impact this nematode, but Dr. Peter Hotez, an acknowledged expert on neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), described it best as “the most important disease you have never heard of” [3]. Despite these high numbers, still classified Neglected affect poor communities disproportionately are often forgotten when comes resources and research funding [4]. Many questions therefore remain unanswered, such as, why children infected? What role host genetics in predisposition? true degree cognitive impairment suffered by because A. lumbricoides? immune response against Ascaris?