Soil-transmitted helminth infections

PM Jourdan, PHL Lamberton, A Fenwick, DG Addiss - The lancet, 2018 - thelancet.com
More than a quarter of the world's population is at risk of infection with the soil-transmitted
helminths Ascaris lumbricoides, hookworm (Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator …

Carcinogenic human papillomavirus infection

M Schiffman, J Doorbar, N Wentzensen… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2016 - nature.com
Infections with human papillomavirus (HPV) are common and transmitted by direct contact.
Although the great majority of infections resolve within 2 years, 13 phylogenetically related …

Soil-transmitted helminths: A critical review of the impact of co-infections and implications for control and elimination

S Lebu, W Kibone, CC Muoghalu… - PLoS neglected …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Researchers have raised the possibility that soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections might
modify the host's immune response against other systemic infections. STH infections can …

Systemic immune modulation by gastrointestinal nematodes

DN Kasal, L Warner, A Bryant… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Gastrointestinal nematode (GIN) infection has applied significant evolutionary pressure to
the mammalian immune system and remains a global economic and human health burden …

[HTML][HTML] Il4ra-independent vaginal eosinophil accumulation following helminth infection exacerbates epithelial ulcerative pathology of HSV-2 infection

A Chetty, MG Darby, PM Vornewald, M Martín-Alonso… - Cell Host & Microbe, 2021 - cell.com
How helminths influence the pathogenesis of sexually transmitted viral infections is not
comprehensively understood. Here, we show that an acute helminth infection …

[HTML][HTML] A proposed new generation of evidence-based microsimulation models to inform global control of cervical cancer

NG Campos, M Demarco, L Bruni, KT Desai… - Preventive …, 2021 - Elsevier
Health decision models are the only available tools designed to consider the lifetime natural
history of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and pathogenesis of cervical cancer, and …

Ecosyndemics: The potential synergistic health impacts of highways and dams in the Amazon

PS Tallman, AR Riley-Powell, L Schwarz… - Social Science & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ecosyndemics refer to disease interactions that result from environmental changes
commonly caused by humans. In this paper, we push scholarship on ecosyndemics into new …

Crosstalk between the intestinal virome and other components of the microbiota, and its effect on intestinal mucosal response and diseases

NA Clinton, SA Hameed, EK Agyei… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, there has been ample evidence illustrating the effect of microbiota on gut
immunity, homeostasis, and disease. Most of these studies have engaged more efforts in …

Impact of helminth infections on female reproductive health and associated diseases

A Chetty, MA Omondi, C Butters, KA Smith… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
A growing body of knowledge exists on the influence of helminth infections on allergies and
unrelated infections in the lung and g astro i ntestinal (GI) mucosa. However, the bystander …

Characterization of the human DNA gut virome across populations with different subsistence strategies and geographical origin

S Rampelli, S Turroni, SL Schnorr… - Environmental …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
It is a matter of fact that the human gut microbiome also includes a non‐bacterial fraction
represented by eukaryotic cells and viruses. To further explore the gut microbiome variation …