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Pregnant women on the Thai-Burmese border walking to the antenatal clinic.
Malaria and intestinal worms are prevalent on the Thai-Burmese Border. The WHO recommends deworming during pregnancy in areas where hookworm infections are frequent. There is conflicting evidence on the harms and benefits of intestinal geohelminth infections on the incidence and severity of malaria, and consequently on the risks and benefits of deworming in malaria-affected populations. Indeed, Ascaris and hookworm infections appear to have contrary associations with malaria in pregnancy on the Thai-Burmese border (see Boel et al., 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000887)
Image Credit: Machteld Boel, Shoklo Malaria Research Unit
Citation: (2010) PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Issue Image | Vol. 4(11) November 2010. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 4(11): ev04.i11. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pntd.v04.i11
Published: November 30, 2010
Copyright: © 2010 Machteld Boel. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Malaria and intestinal worms are prevalent on the Thai-Burmese Border. The WHO recommends deworming during pregnancy in areas where hookworm infections are frequent. There is conflicting evidence on the harms and benefits of intestinal geohelminth infections on the incidence and severity of malaria, and consequently on the risks and benefits of deworming in malaria-affected populations. Indeed, Ascaris and hookworm infections appear to have contrary associations with malaria in pregnancy on the Thai-Burmese border (see Boel et al., 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000887)
Image Credit: Machteld Boel, Shoklo Malaria Research Unit