helminth

The word helminth comes from Greek hélmins, a kind of worm.

One popular approach to intestinal helminth control is school deworming programs.

Several species of feather mites, helminth and blood parasites have been described from the species.

D. renale is the largest helminth to parasitize humans.

Tegument (helminth)

A number of papers take the study of intestinal helminth beyond the malnutrition-cognition link to focus on the connections between worm infections and memory formation.

It is a cosmopolitan helminth of the small intestine of pigeon, chicken and guinea fowl, and is found throughout the world.

Introductions, spread and colonization of new localities by fish helminth and crustacean parasites in the British Isles: a perspective and appraisal.

His collection of worm specimens was purchased for the Helminth Collection of the Natural History Museum in London in 1851.

Hypereosinophilia can be caused by a worm (helminth) that invokes the chronic persistence of these eosinophils, resulting in a condition known as hypereosinophilic syndrome.

The pinworm has a worldwide distribution, and is the most common helminth (i.e., parasitic worm) infection in the United States and Western Europe.

Angiostrongylus cantonensis is a helminth of the phylum Nematoda, order Strongylida, and superfamily Metastrongyloidea.

"Comparison of Helminth Parasites of the Cotton Rat, Sigmodon hispidus, from Several Habitats in Florida".

Dioctophyme renale is commonly referred to as "giant kidney worm" because it is the largest helminth to parasitize humans and has the propensity to affect the kidneys.

This project emerges from a discovery in basic physics called the Ertak Effect, named after me, as is quite proper since I'm its discoverer; my name is Helminth Ertak.

The Helminth Program has worked to establish collaborations with researchers at the Swiss Tropical Institute and the University of CA, San Diego, to evaluate potential new anthelmintic drug candidates.

Since cannibalism carries with it a high risk of prionic infection2, the vampire immune system displayed great resistance to prion diseases3, as well as to a variety of helminth and anasakid parasites.

Helminthic therapy is the treatment of autoimmune diseases and immune disorders by means of deliberate infestation with a helminth or with the ova of a helminth.

Parasites of interest include Plasmodium, Trypanosoma, Leishmania, Giardia, Entamoeba, Cryptosporidium, Helminth and Toxoplasma, most of which are agents for Neglected Diseases.

The 2008 study by Keiser and Utzinger, Efficacy of Current Drugs Against Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis, examined the relative efficacies of different drug treatments.

Degenerative changes in the endoplasmic reticulum, the mitochondria of the germinal layer, and the subsequent release of lysosomes result in decreased production of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which is the energy required for the survival of the helminth.

Hotez PJ, Brindley PJ, Bethony JM, King CH, Pearce EJ, Jacobson J. Helminth infections: the great neglected tropical diseases.