Prevalence and risk factors for soil-transmitted helminth infection in mothers and their infants in Butajira, Ethiopia: A population based study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Belyhun, Yeshambel ^a   Medhin, Girmay ^a   Amberbir, Alemayehu ^a,b   Erko, Berhanu ^a   Hanlon, Charlotte ^a   Alem, Atalay ^a   Venn, Andrea ^b   Britton, John ^b   Davey, Gail ^a  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; INFANT; MICROBIOLOGY; MOTHER; PARASITOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SOIL; STATISTICAL MODEL; WATER SUPPLY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMANS; INFANT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MOTHERS; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOIL; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER SUPPLY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77649298357     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-21     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Soil-transmitted helminth infections: ascariasis, trichuriasis, and hookworm. J Bethony S Brooker M Albonico SM Geiger A Loukas D Diemert PJ Hotez, The Lancet 2006 67 9521 1521 1532 10.1016/S0140-6736(06)68653-4
2. Hookworm Infection. PJ Hotez S Brooker JM Bethony ME Bottazzi A Loukas S Xiao, N Engl J Med 2004 351 8 799 807 10.1056/NEJMra032492 15317893
3. Soil-Transmitted Infections: The Nature, Causes and Burden of the Condition. JP Hotez N de Silva S Brooker J Bethony, Working paper No.3, Disease Control Priorities Project Bethesda, Maryland: Fogarty International Center, National Institute of Health 2003 http://www.dcp2.org/file/19/wp3.pdf
4. Potential for integrated control of neglected tropical diseases in Ethiopia. Z Tadesse A Hailemariam JH Kolaczinski, Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 2008 102 3 213 214 10.1016/j.trstmh.2007.09.005 17950392
5. Guidelines for the Enhanced Outreach Strategy (EOS) for Child Survival Interventions. Federal Ministry of Health, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2004
6. Deworming for health and development. WHO, Report of the third global meeting of the partners of parasite control Geneva: World Health Organization 2005
7. Rescuing the bottom billion through control of neglected tropical diseases. JP Hotez A Fenwick L Savioli D Molyneux, The Lancet 2009 373 1570 75 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60233-6
8. Hookworm-Related Anaemia among Pregnant Women: A Systematic Review. S Brooker PJ Hotez DAP Bunday, PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2008 2 9 291 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000291 18820740
9. Control of helminth infections in school-age children. WHO, VHS SECAM 2002 1650
10. Chronic immune activation associated with intestinal helminth infections results in impaired signal transduction and anergy. G Borkow Q Leng Z Weisman M Stein N Galai A Kalinkovicha Z Bentwich, J Clin Investig 2000 106 8 1053 1061 10.1172/JCI10182 11032865
11. Intervention for the control of soil-transmitted helminthiasis in the community. M Albonico A Montresor DW Crompton L Savioli, Adv Parasitol 2006 61 311 48 10.1016/S0065-308X(05)61008-1 16735168
12. Cost containment in a school deworming program targeting over 2.7 million children in Vietnam. A Montresor DT Cong T Le Anh A Ehrhardt E Montadori TD Thi T Le Kanhh A Albonico KL Palmer, Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 2007 101 461 1 10.1016/j.trstmh.2006.07.008 17055013
13. Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey 2005. Central Statistical Agency and ORC Macro, Addis Ababa Ethiopia and Calverton, Maryland, USA 2006
14. Establishing an epidemiological field laboratory in rural areas - potentials for public health research and interventions. Y Berhane S Wall D Kebede A Emmelin F Enquselassie P Byass L Muhe T Andersson N Deyessa U Hogberg Y Gossaye A Alem K Dahlblom, Ethiop J Health Dev 1999 s 13 1 47
15. Results of the 10th round mass de-worming for Enhanced Outreach Strategy for child survival interventions in 41 Kebeles of Meskan Woreda. Butajira Woreda Health Office, A short report 2008
16. Impact of antenatal common mental disorders upon perinatal outcomes in Ethiopia: the P-MaMiE population-based cohort study. C Hanlon G Medhin A Alem F Tesfaye Z Lakew B Worku M Dewey M Araya A Abdulahi M Hughes M Tomlinson V Patel M Prince, Trop Med Int Health 2009 14 2 156 66 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2008.02198.x 19187514
17. Basic laboratory methods in medical parasitology. WHO, World Health Organization. Geneva 1991
18. Wheeze allergic sensitization and geohelminth in Butajira, Ethiopia. G Davey A Venn H Belete Y Berhane J Britton, Clin Exp Allergy 2005 35 301 307 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2005.02181.x 15784107
19. Major intestinal helminth infections in the Anuak population of four rural villages in southwestern Ethiopia. J Leykun, Ethiop J Health Sci 2000 10 1 7
20. Magnitude of Schistosoma mansoni and intestinal helminthic infections among schoolchildren in Wondo-Genet Zuria, Southern Ethiopia. R Belay W Solomon, Ethiop J Health Dev 1997 11 2 125 129
21. Wheezing, Allergy, and Parasite Infection in Children in Urban and Rural Ethiopia. D Dagoye Z Bekele K Woldemichael H Nida M Yimam A Hall A Venn J Britton R Hubbard S Lewis, Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2003 167 1369 1373 10.1164/rccm.200210-1204OC 12738598
22. Knowledge, perceptions and behavior of mothers toward intestinal helminths in Upper Egypt: implications for control. F Curtale P Pezzotti A Sharbini H Maadat P Ingrosso Y Saad M Babille, Health Pol Plan 1998 13 423 432 10.1093/heapol/13.4.423
23. An analysis of individual, household, and environmental risk factors for intestinal helminthic infection among children in Qena governorate, Upper Egypt. F Curtale P Pezzotti YS Saad A Aloi, J Trop Ped 1999 45 14 17 10.1093/tropej/45.1.14
24. A study of risk factor for intestinal helminth infections using epidemiological and anthropological approaches. A Olsen H Samuelsen W Onyango-Ouma, J Biosoc Sci 2003 33 569 584 10.1017/S0021932001005697
25. Prevalence and risk factors of intestinal parasites in Cuban children. M Wordemann K Polman LTM Heredia RJ Diaz AMC Madurga FAN Fernandez RAC Prado AR Espinosa LP Duran MB Gorbea LR Rivero B Gryseels, Trop Med Int Health 2006 11 1813 1820 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2006.01745.x 17176346
26. The prevalence of intestinal helminthic infections and associated risk factors among school children in Babile town, eastern Ethiopia. G Tadesse, Ethiop J Health Dev 2005 19 140 147
27. Soil-transmitted helminthic infection and its effect on nutritional status of adolescent school girls of low socioeconomic status in Sri Lanka. TMS Atukorala P Lanerolle, J Trop Ped 1999 45 18 22 10.1093/tropej/45.1.18
28. The risk of Ascaris lumbricoides infection in children as an environmental health indictor to guide preventive activities in Caparao and Alto Caparao, Brazil. FF Carneiro E Cifuentes MM Tellez-Rojo I Romieu, Bull World Health Org 2002 80 1 10
29. Health education in the control of schistosomiasis. WHO, Health Geneva 1990 34 1 2