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Health Protection and Global Approach to Neglected Communicable Diseases
Published in Vincent La Placa, Julia Morgan, Social Science Perspectives on Global Public Health, 2023
Maria Jacirema Ferreira Gonçalves, Anny Beatriz Costa Antony de Andrade, Amanda Rodrigues Amorim Adegboye
Intestinal parasites, due to lack of access to clean water, sanitary food handling, and effective hygiene, can cause a reduction in food intake, malabsorption, and endogenous nutrient loss (Katona and Katona-Apte, 2008). NCDs not only exacerbate the risk of malnutrition, but it can also affect growth and cognitive development. Intestinal worm infections have been associated with low IQ, anaemia, undernutrition, and stunted growth (low height for age) (Guan and Han, 2019). While it is known that parasites can lead to malnutrition, the degree to which malnutrition itself can lead to increased parasite infestation is not clearly understood. However, the conditions often coexist and therefore they should be considered together.
Do I Have IBS?
Published in Melissa G. Hunt, Aaron T. Beck, Reclaim Your Life From IBS, 2022
Melissa G. Hunt, Aaron T. Beck
Intestinal parasites are generally easy to treat and are often overlooked by American physicians as a source of gastrointestinal distress (although most veterinarians routinely screen for these parasites in puppies and kittens). If you own or come into contact with dogs or cats, or if you’ve been camping or traveling, it’s probably a good idea to have your doctor check your stool for hookworms and other possible intestinal parasites.
Diagnosing Parasitic Infections
Published in Firza Alexander Gronthoud, Practical Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 2020
A parasite is an organism that needs a host to replicate and spread, causing harm to the host in the process. The most common reason to test for parasites are diarrhoea with or without a travel history, febrile illness after visiting known endemic areas or unexplained eosinophilia. Parasites can cause various clinical syndromes and occur in certain geographical areas or have a global distribution. Although for intestinal parasites, stool microscopy or PCR is the gold standard, diagnosis of blood- and tissue-dwelling parasites remains more challenging, with specific tests to be requested on appropriate specimens. It is therefore worthwhile to consider the following.
Comparing the efficiency of four diagnostic concentration techniques performed on the same group of intestinal parasites
Published in Alexandria Journal of Medicine, 2018
Kamran Pakdad, Seyed Dawood Mousavi Nasab, Fatemeh-Alsadat Damraj, Nayeb Ali Ahmadi
Intestinal parasites are major contributors to the global burden of disease, affecting especially the population living in the developing countries, and are part of the neglected tropical diseases.1 Generally, soil-transmitted helminths affect approximately 1.5 billion people worldwide, cause considerable morbidity and account for an estimated 5.2 million disability adjusted life years (DALYs).2,3 The prevalence of intestinal protozoa infections (especially G. intestinalis and Entamoeba spp.) vary in different regions of the world. For example, Giardia prevalence is 2–7% in developed countries, whereas it is 20–30% in developing countries.4,5
Role of eosinophils in protective immunity against secondary nematode infections
Published in Immunological Medicine, 2019
Parasitic infections are not common in developed countries, but a World Health Organization survey revealed that intestinal parasites continue to infect billions of people in tropical and subtropical areas [1]. Thus, intestinal parasitic infections are regarded as a medically important “Neglected tropical diseases”. Depending on the type and number of parasites, parasitic infection often causes severe anemia and malnutrition, and becomes chronic. Infections in children cause developmental disabilities, delays in cognitive development, and potential mortality. Moreover, parasitic infections have economic consequences due to treatment cost and loss of work time [2].
Prevalence and associated risk factors of intestinal parasitic infections in Kurdistan province, northwest Iran
Published in Cogent Medicine, 2018
Fares Bahrami, Ali Haghighi, Ghasem Zamini, Mohammad Bagher Khadem-Erfan, Eznolla Azargashb
Generally, the prevalence of various species of intestinal parasites varies in different regions because of several environmental, social, and geographical factors (Legesse & Erko, 2017). Hence, a study on the prevalence of various IPIs is important to identify specific risk factors and formulation of appropriate control strategies (Legesse & Erko, 2017; Rinne, Rodas, Galer-Unti, Glickman, & Glickman, 2005).