supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Z.P.X,Grant No.82472311);the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(Z.P.X,Grant No.BK20211586);the Funding of the State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine(Z.P.X,Grant Nos.SKLRM-2021C3 and SKLRM-2024B14);the Medical Scientific Research Project of Jiangsu Provincial Health Commission(Z.P.X,Grant No.Z2021004);the National Sharing Service Platform for Parasite Resources(Z.P.X,Grant No.TDRC-2019-194-30);the Qing Lan Project of Jiangsu Province of China(Z.P.X,Grant No.KY101R202127).
Parasitic helminths,taxonomically comprising trematodes,cestodes,and nematodes,are multicellular invertebrates widely disseminated in nature and have afflicted humans continuously for a long time.Helminths play potent...
This intervention study was funded by the International Development Research Centre;Foreign Affairs,Trade and Development Canada(through the Global Health Research Initiative),the Australian Agency for International Development for funding support,under funding number 105509-027;the International Joint Laboratory on Tropical Diseases Control in Greater Mekong Subregion from Shanghai Municipality Government(No.21410750200).
Helminthiases are neglected parasites that induce changes in the host’s immune response. The study assayed some immunological markers in helminth infections in children and adolescents. Stool and blood samples were c...
grants from the National Institutes of Health-R21 AI121997(to HNS)and R21 AI144738-01A1(to CS)and by the Nutrition Obesity Research Center at Harvard(P30 DK040561);CS was supported by a Pilot Feasibility Grant from the Nutrition Obesity Research Center at Harvard(P30 DK040561);LJ and TM were sponsored by the China Scholarship Council.The funders had no role in the study design,collection,analysis,or interpretation of data.
Helminth-induced Th2 immunity and gut microbiota have been recently shown to be highly effective in modulating metabolic syndromes in animal models.This study aimed to determine whether maternal immunity and microbial...
In the field of landscape epidemiology,the contribution of machine learning(ML)to modeling of epidemiological risk scenarios presents itself as a good alternative.This study aims to break with the”black box”paradigm...
supported by the programme of Chinese Center for Tropical Diseases Research(No.131031104000160004);China-UK Global Health Support Programme funded by UK DFID(No.GHSP-CS-OP2–02);National Science and Technology Key Projects(No.2016ZX10004222–004).
Background:The Regional Network for Asian Schistosomiasis and Other Helminth Zoonoses(RNAS^(+))was established in 1998,which has developed close partnerships with Asian countries endemic for schistosomiasis and other ...
Coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)and helminths infections can be in a synergistic epidemic in developing and suburban areas of industrialized countries.The coinfected hosts will derive a parasite-specific Th2 innate ...
the Commission on Higher Education K12 Scholarship Program for the funding
Objective:To provide baseline data on the prevalence and intensity of soil-transmitted helminthiasis egg contamination in the soil among indigenous communities.Methods:A total of 317 soil samples from three barangays ...
The World Health Organization,Western Pacific Region,International Development Research Centre,Phase 2 has funded our study,along with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and the Swiss National Science Foundation(project No.IZ07Z0-160930,R4D).
Background:The point-of-care circulating cathodic antigen(POC-CCA)test is increasingly used as a rapid diagnostic method for Schistosoma mansoni infection.The test has good sensitivity,although false positive results ...