A research agenda for helminth diseases of humans: Basic research and enabling technologies to support control and elimination of helminthiases

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Lustigman, Sara ^a   Geldhof, Peter ^b   Grant, Warwick N ^c   Osei Atweneboana, Mike Y ^d   Sripa, Banchob ^e   Basáñez, María Gloria ^f  

^a NEW YORK BLOOD CENTER   (United States)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d CSIR WATER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ghana)

^e KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; IVERMECTIN;

BIOINFORMATICS; CARCINOGENESIS; CYSTICERCOSIS; DISEASE CARRIER; FILARIA; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE SILENCING; HELMINTHIASIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITE CONTROL; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SNAIL; SOIL TRANSMITTED HELMINTHIASIS; TH1 TH2 BALANCE; TREMATODE; TREMATODIASIS; ANIMAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETICS; HELMINTH; IMMUNOLOGY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT;

ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS;

EID: 84861215312     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001445     Document Type: Review

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