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Growing public health demands are being exacerbated by current difficulties in addressing poor access to health services, severe food shortages, and a lack of adequate housing. Infectious diseases constitute a major public health emergency in this vulnerable population. A study was carried out in FDMN children to investigate common soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infection at the time of enrollment and prospectively followed-up to 12\u2009months after 2 doses albendazole treatment. At baseline, the prevalence of STH infection with at least one species was found to be 91.7% and 87.3% for Kato\u2013Katz (KK) and quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) methods, respectively. Similarly, for follow-up children, the overall infection rate was 95.3% and 91.5%, respectively. <jats:italic>Trichuris trichiura<\/jats:italic> was the most predominant STH infection by both KK (baseline 87%, follow-up 89.1%) and qPCR (baseline 77.5%, follow-up 82.9%). The overall prevalence of stunting in the children was 37.8% at baseline and rose to 51.3% at 12\u2009months. Alpha-1 antitrypsin (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic> = 0.13, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 0.01) and myeloperoxidase (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic> = 0.12, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 0.01) levels showed a positive correlation with <jats:italic>Aascaris lumbricoides<\/jats:italic> egg count per gram at baseline. An in-depth investigation is urgently needed to identify the underlying protective measures and the root cause of STH infections to improve the health of FDMN children.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.4269\/ajtmh.23-0260","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,7]],"date-time":"2023-08-07T14:52:46Z","timestamp":1691419966000},"page":"656-666","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Prevalence of Soil-Transmitted Helminths at Baseline and after Albendazole Treatment in the School-Age Children of Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals in Bangladesh"],"prefix":"10.4269","volume":"109","author":[{"given":"Zannatun","family":"Noor","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Infectious Diseases Division, International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh;"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Biplob","family":"Hossain","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Infectious Diseases Division, International 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