Nada Moustafa

Acute and Chronic Giardiasis, Child Growth, Nutritional Status, and the IGF-1 Axis: A Critical Narrative Review

Ashraf Soliman, Nada Moustafa, Fawzia Alyafei, Nada Alaaraj, Noor Hamed & Shayma Ahmed · Asian Journal of Pediatric Research · 2026

Giardiasis in childhood ranges from self-limited gastroenteritis to persistent, recurrent, or clinically silent intestinal infection. Its contribution to growth faltering remains difficult to isolate because exposure is concentrated in settings where dietary insufficiency, repeat...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ajpr/2026/v16i8562

Deworming, Weight Gain, Linear Growth and the IGF-1 Axis in Children with Ascaris and Other Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections: A Critical Narrative Review

Ashraf Soliman, Suha Abu Khalaf, Nada Moustafa, Fawzia Alyafei, Nada Alaaraj, Noor Hamed & Shayma Ahmed · International Journal of TROPICAL DISEASE & Health · 2026

Soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections remain concentrated in children living in settings where poverty, inadequate sanitation, recurrent enteric infection and undernutrition overlap. This convergence has encouraged a long-standing expectation that deworming should improve we...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ijtdh/2026/v47i101787