Global “worming”: Climate change and its projected general impact on human helminth infections

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2018, Pages

  Blum, Alexander J ^a   Hotez, Peter J ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRAZIQUANTEL; SCHISTOSOMIASIS VACCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANCYLOSTOMA DUODENALE; ANCYLOSTOMIASIS; ASCARIASIS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMIC SHIFT; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FASCIOLIASIS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HELMINTHIASIS; HOOKWORM; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; MALARIA; MASS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MIGRATION; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCIASIS; OPISTHORCHIASIS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; TREMATODIASIS; TRICHURIASIS; TROPICAL DISEASE; URBANIZATION; VECTOR CONTROL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; HELMINTH; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHS; HUMANS;

EID: 85050749218     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0006370     Document Type: Editorial

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