A survey of intestinal helminths was undertaken in riparian people in Xieng Khouang Province, Lao PDR. Fecal specimens were collected from 643 people (289 males and 354 females) residing in 4 districts (Nonghet, Kham, Phoukout, and Pek) and were examined by the Kato-Katz technique. The overall helminth egg positive rate was 41.2%, and hookworms revealed the highest prevalence (32.7%) followed b...

Ascariasis is a helminthic infection of global distribution with more than 1.4 billion persons infected throughout the world. The majority of infections occur in the developing countries of Asia and Latin America. Of 4 million people infected in the United States, a large percentage are immigrants from developing countries. Ascaris-related clinical disease is restricted to subjects with heavy w...

deficiency anemia had a medical examination in May 2002. She was diagnosed as having anisakiasis after upper endoscopy of the antrum of the stomach, and a worm was removed. Three years later, an upper endoscopy showed several worms in the first and second portions of the duodenum, but there were no symptoms. Ten live worms were removed using standard biopsy forceps and were identified by micros...

Phongsaly Province, located in the northernmost area of Lao PDR, was previously suggested to be endemic for the liver fluke Opisthorchis viverrini infection. To confirm, or rule out, this suggestion, the Phonxay village in the Khoua District, Phongsaly Province, was selected for a survey. Ten volunteers (8 men and 2 women aged 31-57 years) who consumed raw freshwater fish and had gastrointestin...

three rapid, simple, moderately sensitive and selective spectropho-tometric methods are described for the determination of pyrantel pamoate (pyp) in bulk drug and in its pharmaceutical formulations. the methods are based on the reduction of ferric chloride by pyp in neutral medium and subsequent complexation of iron (ii) with ferricyanide (method a), 1, 10-phenanthroline (method b) and 2,2’-bip...

Background: Intestinal parasitic infections (intestinal worms) are major public health problems, especially in developing countries. This study was conducted to determine the prevalence and management strategy of intestinal (IPIs) employed by households.
 Methodology: The carried out Imo State, south-eastern Nigeria. Faecal samples from 1200 school children, aged 6-13 years were examined u...

558.35 Aklomide. 558.55 Amprolium. 558.58 Amprolium and ethopabate. 558.59 Apramycin. 558.60 Arsanilate sodium. 558.62 Arsanilic acid. 558.76 Bacitracin methylene disalicylate. 558.78 Bacitracin zinc. 558.95 Bambermycins. 558.105 [Reserved] 558.115 Carbadox. 558.120 Carbarsone (not U.S.P.). 558.128 Chlortetracycline. 558.140 Chlortetracycline and sulfamethazine. 558.145 Chlortetracycline, proca...