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Despite progress with diagnostic criteria, the type and timing of laboratory tests used to diagnose infective endocarditis (IE) have not been standardized. This is especially true with serological testing. Patients with suspected IE were evaluated by a standard diagnostic protocol. This protocol mandated an evaluation of the patients according to the modified Duke criteria and used a battery of...

PURPOSE The prevalence of epilepsy in Cameroon is higher than that of the industrialized world and other developing countries. Neurocysticercosis due to Taenia solium infestation has been reported as a major cause of epilepsy in some parts of Cameroon although there are some conflicting data. The prevalence of epilepsy is especially high in the Momo division of the North-West Province of Camero...

Neurocysticercosis (NCC) has attained the importance of one of the most common cause of focal brain lesions in patients infected with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus). Adequate data regarding the rate of this co-infection is lacking. Therefore, the present study was carried out to determine the prevalence of cysticercosis among HIV patients residing in Puducherry or its neighboring districts ...

Burnet and Stone (1947) described a mucinsplitting enzyme in cultures of Vibrio comma which causes desquamation of the intestinal mucosa of guinea pigs and have suggested a role for this mucinase in the pathogenesis of Asiatic cholera. While possession of this enzyme may be an important factor in determining the virulence of cholera strains, it is by no means the only attribute, since avirulent...

A cross-sectional study was conducted to determine dengue virus IgM-positive rate in Terai region, Nepal from August to December 2007. Serum samples were collected from 183 symptomatic cases. The samples were examined for dengue virus specific IgM using particle agglutination test. Of 183 serum samples, 55 (30.0%) had positive for dengue IgM antibody. The positive rate was highest (50.0%) in Bi...

BACKGROUND Human toxocariasis owing to lodgement of the larvae of Toxocara canis in different organs can result in serious clinical syndromes such as visceral larva migrans or ocular larva migrans. Detection of an antibody response to Toxocara canis excretory-secretory (TES) antigen in serum samples is sensitive and specific for diagnosis and epidemiological surveys. To assess the extent of thi...

Evidence of infection of sheep and, to a lesser extent, cattle, with Rift Valley fever (RVF) virus was obtained from a sero-epidemiological study conducted on four farms in the Chisamba area of the Central Province of Zam­ bia. This area was affected by an epizootic of RVF in the 1973/74 rain season; clinical cases were again reported during the 1977/78 rains. The results suggest that RVF virus...

The aim of this study was to help in increasing the sensitivity and specificityof rheumatic fever (RF) diagnosing. One hundred and eight patients and volunteers were selected from Orthopedic Surgery Department at ElSahel Teaching Hospital (Cairo-Egypt), during the period from January 2008 to October 2009. Their ages ranged from 3 to 25 years old. Patients were divided into four groups. The firs...