Helminthiasis Epidemiology and Control: Scoring Successes and Meeting the Remaining Challenges.

摘要: Abstract Parasitic helminth infections remain a significant challenge to global health. These are highly prevalent diseases, affecting over 1 billion persons worldwide. Their prevalence is closely linked the presence of severe poverty and its associated sub-standard housing sanitation. The last decade has seen remarkable increase in our understanding true disease burden infections, there been increasing momentum on part national non-governmental developmental organizations for prevention control these diseases. expansion mass treatment programmes their yielded some successes. However, challenges terms ecological heterogeneity transmission, incomplete drug uptake, likelihood emerging resistance. development new, more-sensitive diagnostics now broadening knowledge infection risk reinfection enhanced concurrent infections. Adoption new diagnostic techniques large-scale screening surveillance will require adaptation current guidelines as move from initial morbidity objectives toward coordinated interventions aimed at local elimination.