Prevalence of Intestinal Parasitic Infection among Drug Addicts in District Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan (Letter to the Editor)

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Dear Editor-in-Chief ntestinal parasitic infections are still one of the major health problems in developing countries of the world including Pakistan. Several intestinal parasitic diseases e. g. amebiasis and giardiasis (caused by intestinal protozoa) or schistosomiasis and soil transmitted helminthiasis (caused by parasitic worms) have been categorized as neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), as they continue in poor communities of economical and social importance (1). Intestinal amebiasis caused by E. histolytica led to 11, 300 deaths worldwide and as ranked 4Th in the most fatal parasite-related diseases in 2013 (2, 3). Soil-transmitted helminths were estimated to infect more than one billion people in 2010 with highest prevalence rates observed in school-aged children (4)...