Salam Nasir, Azam Saud
Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, Al-Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Innova-CRO, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
BMC Public Health. 2017 Feb 16;17(1):201. doi: 10.1186/s12889-017-4113-2.
Understanding the prevalence of soil-transmitted helminth infections is necessary to plan control strategies and focus on highly endemic regions for preventive chemotherapy and improved sanitation facilities. India is known to be endemic for soil-transmitted helminth infections.
To understand the prevalence, spatial distribution and identify high-risk zones, a systematic search of published literature was carried out based on PRISMA guidelines from the year 2000 to 2015.
A careful screening of the identified literature yielded 39 studies that reported the prevalence of soil-transmitted helminth infections from 19 different states of India. Ascaris lumbricoides was the most prevalent parasite. Higher than 50% prevalence was reported from six states. Nearly 90% studies reported the prevalence of more than one parasite species in the same sample population.
This is the first study to comprehensively review the literature associated with soil-transmitted helminth infections from India giving a clear idea of its prevalence, distribution and high endemic areas.
了解土壤传播的蠕虫感染的流行情况对于制定控制策略以及关注高度流行地区以开展预防性化疗和改善卫生设施至关重要。印度是土壤传播的蠕虫感染的流行地区。
为了解其流行情况、空间分布并确定高风险区域，根据PRISMA指南对2000年至2015年发表的文献进行了系统检索。
对所确定文献的仔细筛选产生了39项研究，这些研究报告了印度19个不同邦土壤传播的蠕虫感染的流行情况。蛔虫是最常见的寄生虫。六个邦报告的流行率高于50%。近90%的研究报告在同一样本群体中存在不止一种寄生虫的流行情况。
这是第一项全面回顾与印度土壤传播的蠕虫感染相关文献的研究，清楚地了解了其流行情况、分布和高流行地区。
