Prevalence Soil Transmitted Helminthiasis and malaria co-infection among pregnant women and risk factors in Gilgel Gibe dam Area, Southwest Ethiopia

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Getachew, Million ^a   Tafess, Ketema ^a   Zeynudin, Ahmed ^b   Yewhalaw, Delenesaw ^b  

^a Adama University   (Ethiopia)

^b JIMMA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Co infection; Ethiopia; Malaria; Pregnant women; Soil transmitted helminths

Indexed keywords

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; VERMES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; MALARIA; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOIL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMANS; MALARIA; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOIL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880000122     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-6-263     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. WACIPAC, Why parasitic disease control? 2008 Available at http://98.130.228.222/wacipac/index.php, accessed on January 10/2010
2. Mother's little helpers: mechanisms of maternal-fetal tolerance. Trowsdale J, Betz AG, Nat Immunol 2006 7 241 246 16482172
3. Suppression of cell-mediated immune responses to malaria antigens in pregnant Gambian women. Riley EM, Schneider G, Sambou I, Greenwood BM, Am J Trop Med Hyg 1999 40 141 144
4. Malaria and helminths interactions in humans: an epidemiological viewpoint. Mwangi TW, Bethony J, Brooker S, Ann Trop Med Parasitol 2006 100 551 570 10.1179/136485906X118468 16989681 (Pubitemid 46940777)
5. Th2 responses without atopy: immunoregulation in chronic helminths infections and reduced allergic disease. Yazdanbakhsh M, Van der Biggelaar A, Maizels RM, Trends Immunol 2001 22 372 377 10.1016/S1471-4906(01)01958-5 11429321 (Pubitemid 32673643)
6. The epidemiology and consequences of maternal malaria: a review of immunological basis. Okoko BJ, Enwere G, Ota MO, Acta Trop 2003 87 2 193 205 10.1016/S0001-706X(03)00097-4 12826295 (Pubitemid 36776306)
7. Multiple infections with Plasmodium and helminths in communities of low and relatively high socio-economic status. Tshikuka JG, Scott ME, Gray-Donald K, Kalumba ON, Ann Trop Med Parasitol 1996 90 277 293 8758142 (Pubitemid 26197023)
8. World Health Organization, Haemoglobin concentrations for the diagnosis of anaemia and assessment of severity Geneva: Vitamin and Mineral Nutrition Information System 2010 (WHO/NMH/NHD/MNM/11.1) (http://www.who.int/vmnis/ indicators/haemoglobin) 2011. Accessed on January 10/2010
9. Parotid enlargement, forehead edema, and suppression of malaria as nutritional consequences of ascariasis. Murray MJ, Murray AB, Murray MB, Murray CJ, Am J Clin Nutr 1977 30 2117 2121 930882
10. Helminth infections are associated with protection from cerebral malaria and increased nitrogen derivatives concentrations in Thailand. Nacher M, Singhasivanon P, Traore B, et al. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2002 66 304 309 12139225 (Pubitemid 34756101)
11. The global distribution of clinical episodes of Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Snow RW, Guerra CA, Noor AM, Myint HY, Hay SI, Nature 2005 434 214 217 10.1038/nature03342 15759000 (Pubitemid 40388051)
12. The global burden of parasitic disease in the new millennium. Hotez P, Abstr Intersci Conf Antimicrob Agents Chemother Intersci Conf Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2001 41 1131 abstract no
13. Plasmodium/intestinal helminth coinfections among pregnant Nigerian women. Egwunyenga AO, Ajayi JA, Nmorsi OPG, Duhlinska-Popova DD, Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro 2001 96 1055 1059 (Pubitemid 33637409)
14. Malaria and intestinal helminth co-infection among pregnant women in Ghana: prevalence and risk factors. Yatich NJ, Yi J, Agbenyega T, et al. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2009 80 6 896 901 19478245
15. Tadege B, Determinants of anaemia in pregnant women with emphasis on intestinal helminthic infection at bushulo health center southern Ethiopia AAU-ETD: Addis Ababa University Libraries Electronic Thesis and Dissertations 2009
16. Complex interactions between soil-transmitted helminths and malaria in pregnant women on the Thai-Burmese border. Boel M, Carrara VI, Rijken M, et al. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2010 4 12 14
17. Intestinal helminth infections are associated with increased incidence of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Thailand. Nacher M, Singhasivanon P, Yimsamran, J Parasitol 2002 88 55 58 12053980 (Pubitemid 34250629)
18. Malaria and helminth co-infections in outpatients of Alaba Kulito Health Center, southern Ethiopia: a cross sectional study. Abraham D, Abebe A, Mengistu L, Berhanu E, BMC Research Notes 2010 3 143 10.1186/1756-0500-3-143 20500831
19. Co-infection of helminths and malaria: modulation of the immune responses to malaria. Hartgers FC, Yazdanbakhsh M, Parasite Immunol 2006 28 497 506 10.1111/j.1365-3024.2006.00901.x 16965285 (Pubitemid 44370855)
20. Perceptions of soil eating and anemia among pregnant women on the Kenyan coast. Geissler PW, Prince RJ, Levene M, et al. Soc Sci (Kans) 1999 488 1069 1079 (Pubitemid 29147329)
21. Potential for integrated control of neglected tropical diseases in Ethiopia. Tadesse Z, Hailemariam A, Kolaczinski JH, Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 2008 102 213 214 10.1016/j.trstmh.2007.09.005 17950392 (Pubitemid 351223497)
22. Prevalence and risk factors for soil-transmitted helminth infection in mothers and their infants in Butajira, Ethiopia: a population based study. Yeshambel B, Girmay M, Alemayehu A, et al. BMC Public Health 2010 10 21 10.1186/1471-2458-10-21 20085635
23. Malaria burden among pregnant women living in the Rural District of Boromo, Burkina Faso. Sheick OC, Sabine G, Umberto DA, Am J Trop Med Hyg 2007 77 56 60 18165475
24. Prevalence and risk factors for Plasmod falciparum malaria in pregnant women of eastern Sudan. Adam I, Khamis HA, Elbashir IM, Malaria Journal 2005 4 18 10.1186/1475-2875-4-18 15829008 (Pubitemid 40746229)
25. Malaria and water resource development: the case of Gilgel-Gibe hydroelectric dam in Ethiopia. Yewhalaw D, Legesse W, Van Bortel W, et al. Malar J 2009 8 21 10.1186/1475-2875-8-21 19178727