摘要Dear Editor, Recently, Lindrose et al.[1] have conducted a retrospective assessment over 6 years on enteric helminth infections in United States (US) soldiers and their relatives to provide epidemiological insights into this so far neglected topic. A total of 50,000 helminth infections were recorded during the observation period. Next to classically hygiene-related infections like enterobiasis, infections due to soil-transmitted nematodes like Strongyloides stercoralis, waterborne trematode infections like schistosomiasis as well as invasive cestode infections like neurocysticercosis were among the more frequently recorded diagnoses. Of note, systematic screening was not conducted in the assessed US soldiers after deployments to tropical areas of endemicity. Insofar, it can only be speculated how many asymptomatic infections went undetected and, as concluded by the authors, whether systematic returnee screenings seem justified or not.