Detection of Ascaris lumbricoides infection by ABA-1 coproantigen ELISA

Ascaris Lumbricoides Infection in Malabar District

a preponderance over Malabar in this respect. The unhygienic method of disposal of the nightsoil and the excreta, the shallowness of most of its wells, the dirty habit of many of its folk, its peculiar climate and the vegetarian life of most of its people are among the most potent contributions towards the exuberant propagation of these human foes. Picture to yourself a compound with damp soil,...

Ascaris Lumbricoides

The biological activity of ABA-1-like protein from Ascaris lumbricoides.

The elevation of non-specific IgE (total IgE) in Ascaris infection can be seen one week after infection, and reaches a peak after approximately two weeks. It has been reported that ABA-1 protein is the main constituent in the pseudocoelomic fluid of Ascaris suum. To investigate the effect of the ABA-1-like protein from Ascaris lumbricoides (ALB), the cDNA was cloned by reverse transcriptase pol...

A Fatal Case of Infection with Ascaris Lumbricoides

seen by me some ten years ago, when a medical student of the Berry-White Medical School, Dibrugarh. The patient, an adult Hindu male, was admitted to hospital with all the clinical signs and symptoms of acute intestinal obstruction, but the presence of roundworms was not for a moment suspected. He was operated upon by Dr. H. K. Das, l.m.s., then Teacher of Surgery at the School, and now Civil S...

Intestinal obstruction caused by Ascaris lumbricoides.

PURPOSE The aim of this study is to present patients, to discuss causes of morbidity and mortality, and to ascertain prognostic indexes and therapeutic options influencing outcome of patients with intestinal obstruction caused by Ascaris lumbricoides. MATERIALS AND METHODS During the past 20 years, between 1975 and 1995, a total of 17 patients with intestinal obstruction attributable to A. lu...