The Strongyloides stercoralis-hookworms association as a path to the estimation of the global burden of strongyloidiasis: A systematic review

Pedro E Fleitas; Marina Travacio; Helena Martí-Soler; M Eugenia Socías; Walter R Lopez; Alejandro J Krolewiecki

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0008184

The Strongyloides stercoralis-hookworms association as a path to the estimation of the global burden of strongyloidiasis: A systematic review

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2020 Apr 13;14(4):e0008184. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0008184. eCollection 2020 Apr.

Authors

Pedro E Fleitas^{1

2}, Marina Travacio³, Helena Martí-Soler⁴, M Eugenia Socías⁵, Walter R Lopez¹, Alejandro J Krolewiecki^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Universidad Nacional de Salta, Instituto de Investigaciones de Enfermedades Tropicales/CONICET, Orán, Salta, Argentina.
² Universidad Nacional de Salta, Cátedra de Química Biológica, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Salta, Salta, Argentina.
³ Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, Cátedra de Química General e Inorgánica, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
⁴ Universitat de Barcelona, ISGlobal, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain.
⁵ University of British Columbia, British Columbia Centre on Substance Use, Department of Medicine, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Abstract

PROSPERO (registration code CRD42019131127).

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Systematic Review

MeSH terms

Animals
Global Burden of Disease
Humans
Soil / parasitology
Strongyloides stercoralis / pathogenicity*
Strongyloides stercoralis / physiology
Strongyloidiasis / epidemiology*
Strongyloidiasis / physiopathology*
Strongyloidiasis / transmission

Substances

Soil

Grants and funding

This study was funded by an unrestricted grant from Fundación Mundo Sano, Argentina (www.mundosano.org) to AK. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.