Use of triclabendazole for treatment of patients co-infected by Fasciola spp. and S. mansoni in Behera Governorate, Egypt.

Praziquantel is still very effective for the treatment of schistosomiasis, but there are rising concerns on the potential risk of developing resistances because of the extensive use of this drug. Triclabendazole, a systemic anthelmintic, is very effective against other trematodes such as Paragonimus spp. and Fasciola spp.

Human fascioliasis infection: gender differences within school-age children from endemic areas of the Nile Delta, Egypt.

Several studies have reported a higher prevalence of infection for human fascioliasis among girls than among boys. To investigate this aspect further a sufficiently large data set was assembled comprising of 21,477 subjects with 932 positive cases. Subjects were primary school children covered by a control programme implemented by the Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population in the Nile Delta from 1988 to 2002.

Hyperendemic fascioliasis associated with schistosomiasis in villages in the Nile Delta of Egypt.

Coprologic surveys were carried out in villages of the Behera Governorate in the Nile Delta region of Egypt to characterize the epidemiologic features of human fascioliasis caused by Fasciola hepatica and F. gigantica in this lowland endemic area by comparison with fascioliasis caused by only F. hepatica in areas hyperendemic for human disease in the Andean highlands of South America.

Distribution of human fascioliasis by age and gender among rural population in the Nile Delta, Egypt.

The number of cases of human fascioliasis reported in Egypt, has increased drastically during the past years. Most of the newly infected cases were children and adolescents. In the year 2000, the Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population implemented a cross-sectional survey in four endemic foci of Behera Governorate, in the Nile Delta.

The School Health Programme in Behera: an integrated helminth control programme at Governorate level in Egypt.

School Health Programmes offer the opportunity to deliver public health interventions to a great number of beneficiaries at a relatively low cost and are seen with growing interest by policy makers in developing countries and the donors' communities. In Egypt a pilot School Health Programme has been implemented for the past 6 years in Behera, the largest and most populous Governorate of the Nile Delta. The Programme integrated additional activities for the control of soil-transmitted helminthiasis, human fascioliasis and anaemia in the National Schistosomiasis Control Programme (NSCP), implemented in Egypt since 1988 by the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP).