A life without worms

The impact of prenatal exposure to parasitic infections and to anthelminthic treatment on antibody responses to routine immunisations given in infancy: Secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial

(2017) Stephen Nash et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Mass deworming to improve developmental health and wellbeing of children in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and network meta-analysis

(2017) Vivian A Welch et al.   Lancet Global Health

Helminths are positively associated with atopy and wheeze in Ugandan fishing communities: results from a cross-sectional survey

(2016) E. L. Webb et al.   ALLERGY

Do worms protect against the metabolic syndrome? A systematic review and meta-analysis

(2016) Ella F. Tracey et al.   DIABETES RESEARCH AND CLINICAL PRACTICE

Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific CD4+T-cell response is increased, and Treg cells decreased, in anthelmintic-treated patients with latent TB

(2016) Frederic Toulza et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Maternal Helminth Infection Is Associated With Higher Infant Immunoglobulin A Titers to Antigen in Orally Administered Vaccines

(2016) Carolyn E. Clark et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Filarial Infection or Antigen Administration Improves Glucose Tolerance in Diet-Induced Obese Mice

(2016) Afiat Berbudi et al.   Journal of Innate Immunity

Efficacy and safety of praziquantel for the treatment of human schistosomiasis during pregnancy: a phase 2, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

(2016) Remigio M Olveda et al.   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Plasmodium falciparum and soil-transmitted helminth co-infections among children in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis

(2016) Abraham Degarege et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Helminth infection promotes colonization resistance via type 2 immunity

(2016) Deepshika Ramanan et al.   SCIENCE

The Role of Helminth Infection and Environment in the Development of Allergy: A Prospective Study of Newly-Arrived Ethiopian Immigrants in Israel

(2016) Miguel Stein et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Complexities and Perplexities: A Critical Appraisal of the Evidence for Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infection-Related Morbidity

(2016) Suzy J. Campbell et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Allergic disorders and socio-economic status: a study of schoolchildren in an urban area of Makassar, Indonesia

(2015) F. Hamid et al.   CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ALLERGY

Effect of urban vs. rural residence on the association between atopy and wheeze in Latin America: findings from a case-control analysis

(2015) P. Endara et al.   CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ALLERGY

Does Strongyloides stercoralis infection protect against type 2 diabetes in humans? Evidence from Australian Aboriginal adults

(2015) Russell Hays et al.   DIABETES RESEARCH AND CLINICAL PRACTICE

Chronic helminth infection and helminth-derived egg antigens promote adipose tissue M2 macrophages and improve insulin sensitivity in obese mice

(2015) Leonie Hussaarts et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

The Intestinal Microbiota Contributes to the Ability of Helminths to Modulate Allergic Inflammation

(2015) Mario M. Zaiss et al.   IMMUNITY

Neither Primary nor Memory Immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection Is Compromised in Mice with Chronic Enteric Helminth Infection

(2015) Wasiulla Rafi et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Effects of albendazole on the clinical outcome and immunological responses in helminth co-infected tuberculosis patients: a double blind randomised clinical trial

(2015) E. Abate et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

Re-analysis of health and educational impacts of a school-based deworming programme in western Kenya: a pure replication

(2015) Alexander M Aiken et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Re-analysis of health and educational impacts of a school-based deworming programme in western Kenya: a statistical replication of a cluster quasi-randomized stepped-wedge trial

(2015) Calum Davey et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Infection with Soil-Transmitted Helminths Is Associated with Increased Insulin Sensitivity

(2015) Aprilianto E. Wiria et al.   PLoS One

Opposite effects of anthelmintic treatment on microbial infection at individual versus population scales

(2015) V. O. Ezenwa et al.   SCIENCE

Comparisons of Allergenic and Metazoan Parasite Proteins: Allergy the Price of Immunity

(2015) Nidhi Tyagi et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

The Case for Mass Treatment of Intestinal Helminths in Endemic Areas

(2015) Joan Hamory Hicks et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Effect of Antenatal Parasitic Infections on Anti-vaccine IgG Levels in Children: A Prospective Birth Cohort Study in Kenya

(2015) Indu Malhotra et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Schistosome infection is negatively associated with mite atopy, but not wheeze and asthma in Ghanaian Schoolchildren

(2014) B. B. Obeng et al.   CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ALLERGY

Helminths in the hygiene hypothesis: sooner or later?

(2014) R. M. Maizels et al.   CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL IMMUNOLOGY

Suppression of Basophil Histamine Release and Other IgE-dependent Responses in Childhood Schistosoma mansoni/hookworm Coinfection

(2014) A. Pinot de Moira et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Human schistosomiasis

(2014) Daniel G Colley et al.   LANCET

Blockade of IL-33 release and suppression of type 2 innate lymphoid cell responses by helminth secreted products in airway allergy

(2014) H J McSorley et al.   Mucosal Immunology

Pregnancy and helminth infections

(2014) H. Mpairwe et al.   PARASITE IMMUNOLOGY

Global numbers of infection and disease burden of soil transmitted helminth infections in 2010

(2014) Rachel L Pullan et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Maternal hookworm modifies risk factors for childhood eczema: results from a birth cohort in Uganda

(2014) Harriet Mpairwe et al.   PEDIATRIC ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY

S. mansoni Bolsters Anti-Viral Immunity in the Murine Respiratory Tract

(2014) Sebastian Scheer et al.   PLoS One

Impact of Co-Infections and BCG Immunisation on Immune Responses among Household Contacts of Tuberculosis Patients in a Ugandan Cohort

(2014) Irene A. Biraro et al.   PLoS One

Host protective roles of type 2 immunity: Parasite killing and tissue repair, flip sides of the same coin

(2014) Judith E. Allen et al.   SEMINARS IN IMMUNOLOGY

Antigen sparing and enhanced protection using a novel rOv-ASP-1 adjuvant in aqueous formulation with influenza vaccines

(2014) Jiu Jiang et al.   VACCINE

Factors affecting the infant antibody response to measles immunisation in Entebbe-Uganda

(2013) Dennison Kizito et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

Reprogramming macrophages to an anti-inflammatory phenotype by helminth antigens reduces murine atherosclerosis

(2013) Ine M. J. Wolfs et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

Effect of Trichinella spiralis Infection on the Immune Response to HBV Vaccine in a Mouse Model

(2013) Fei Guan et al.   Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

Parasitic Nematode-Induced Modulation of Body Weight and Associated Metabolic Dysfunction in Mouse Models of Obesity

(2013) Zhonghan Yang et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Population deworming every 6 months with albendazole in 1 million pre-school children in north India: DEVTA, a cluster-randomised trial

(2013) Shally Awasthi et al.   LANCET

Effect of helminth-induced immunity on infections with microbial pathogens

(2013) Padmini Salgame et al.   NATURE IMMUNOLOGY

Relationship between Carotid Intima Media Thickness and Helminth Infections on Flores Island, Indonesia

(2013) Aprilianto Eddy Wiria et al.   PLoS One

Risk Factors Associated with the Development of Atopic Sensitization in Indonesia

(2013) Firdaus Hamid et al.   PLoS One

Effects of geohelminth infection and age on the associations between allergen-specific IgE, skin test reactivity and wheeze: a case-control study

(2012) A.-L. Moncayo et al.   CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ALLERGY

Association of Previous Schistosome Infection With Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome: A Cross-Sectional Study in Rural China

(2012) Yuhong Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM

Impact of Anthelminthic Treatment in Pregnancy and Childhood on Immunisations, Infections and Eczema in Childhood: A Randomised Controlled Trial

(2012) Juliet Ndibazza et al.   PLoS One

Chronic Schistosoma japonicum Infection Reduces Immune Response to Vaccine against Hepatitis B in Mice

(2012) Lin Chen et al.   PLoS One

T cells in helminth infection: the regulators and the regulated

(2012) Matthew D. Taylor et al.   TRENDS IN IMMUNOLOGY

Reduced antibody responses against Plasmodium falciparum vaccine candidate antigens in the presence of Trichuris trichiura

(2012) Meral Esen et al.   VACCINE

National, regional, and global trends in systolic blood pressure since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 786 country-years and 5·4 million participants

(2011) Goodarz Danaei et al.   LANCET

National, regional, and global trends in fasting plasma glucose and diabetes prevalence since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 370 country-years and 2·7 million participants

(2011) Goodarz Danaei et al.   LANCET

Eosinophils Sustain Adipose Alternatively Activated Macrophages Associated with Glucose Homeostasis

(2011) D. Wu et al.   SCIENCE

Proteomic Analysis of Human Skin Treated with Larval Schistosome Peptidases Reveals Distinct Invasion Strategies among Species of Blood Flukes

(2011) Jessica Ingram et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Atopy and current intestinal parasite infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis

(2010) J. Feary et al.   ALLERGY

Effects of Deworming during Pregnancy on Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes in Entebbe, Uganda: A Randomized Controlled Trial

(2010) J. Ndibazza et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Regulatory T cells in human geohelminth infection suppress immune responses to BCG andPlasmodium falciparum

(2010) Linda J. Wammes et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Effect of single-dose anthelmintic treatment during pregnancy on an infant's response to immunisation and on susceptibility to infectious diseases in infancy: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

(2010) Emily L Webb et al.   LANCET

Helminth infection impairs the immunogenicity of a Plasmodium falciparum DNA vaccine, but not irradiated sporozoites, in mice

(2010) Gregory S. Noland et al.   VACCINE

Effects of maternal and infant co-infections, and of maternal immunisation, on the infant response to BCG and tetanus immunisation

(2010) Alison M. Elliott et al.   VACCINE

Decreased Prevalence of Lymphatic Filariasis among Diabetic Subjects Associated with a Diminished Pro-Inflammatory Cytokine Response (CURES 83)

(2010) Vivekanandhan Aravindhan et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Deworming and Development: Asking the Right Questions, Asking the Questions Right

(2009) Donald A. P. Bundy et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Helminth infections: the great neglected tropical diseases

(2008) Peter J. Hotez et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

Reduced protective effect of Plasmodium berghei immunization by concurrent Schistosoma mansoni infection

(2008) Ramon F Laranjeiras et al.   MEMORIAS DO INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ

Poor immunogenicity of BCG in helminth infected population is associated with increased in vitro TGF-β production

(2008) Daniel Elias et al.   VACCINE