| helminth infestations in asian women attending an antenatal clinic in england. | asian women attending an antenatal clinic in england were studied to determine the infestation rates with intestinal helminths. an overall rate of 9% was found, rising to 18% in those women resident for less than 7 years. indians had a carriage rate of 3%, pakistanis 7.3% and bangladeshis 45%. species detected were hookworm, whipworm (trichuris trichiura), dwarf tapeworm (hymenolepis nana) and roundworm (ascaris lumbricoides). | 1988 | 3401436 |
| ascaris lumbricoides in english schoolchildren. | | 1984 | 6485073 |
| how effective is school-based deworming for the community-wide control of soil-transmitted helminths? | the london declaration on neglected tropical diseases was based in part on a new world health organization roadmap to "sustain, expand and extend drug access programmes to ensure the necessary supply of drugs and other interventions to help control by 2020". large drug donations from the pharmaceutical industry form the backbone to this aim, especially for soil-transmitted helminths (sths) raising the question of how best to use these resources. deworming for sths is often targeted at school chi ... | 2013 | 23469293 |