A 20-year-old woman presented to our department in 2000. She gave a history of bloody diarrhoea, fatigue and dizziness during the previous two months. Physical examination was unremarkable. However, colonoscopy showed rectal inflammation of moderate degree. Histology confirmed the diagnosis of ulcerative proctitis. The complete blood picture was normal as were the results of liver and renal fun...

Two hundred and twenty three subjects from a Schistosoma mansoni low morbidity endemic area and nine hospitalized hepatosplenic patients were submitted to stool test and clinical examination and abdomen ultrasound assessments. According to stool examination and ultrasound results, they were grouped as follows: G1 -- 63 Schistosoma mansoni egg-negative individuals; G2 -- 141 egg-positive patient...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to prospectively investigate the degree of pain experienced by the patients receiving transrectal ultrasonography (TRUS) of the prostate by applying a visual analog scale. We also identified the clinical parameters influencing pain during the TRUS examination. MATERIALS AND METHODS Records were obtained from a prospective database for male patients who ...

The purpose of this study was to identify intestinal worm infections in reticulated pythons (Phyton reticulatus) captivity. This used faecal samples 2 at the Taru Jurug Animal Park, Solo. Anamnesis two found presence adult nematode worms their feces. Examination and faeces carried out macroscopically microscopically. Microscopic examination feces using native methods. results showed that were A...

stool examinations of 402 inhabitants of 8 villages in and around an area near zahedan, and 280 people who had emigrated from the rural area of zabol, revealed the following: the prevalence of infection with ascaris, trichuris and trichostrongylus was very low (less than 5%) in all areas surveyed, while the mean infection rates found for h.nana, hookworm and e.vermicularis (by stool examination...

the effect of phenylen di-isothiocyanate (jonit) in the mass treatment of various intestinal helminthiases was evaluated among the inhabitants of a village in dezful, southwest iran. stool samples collected and examined from 17 persons showed infection rates of 80% for ancylostoma duodenale, 57.3% for ascaris, 46.7% for trichostronylus spp. and 22.8% for h. nana.seventy- one persons (41 childre...

strongyloides stercoralis is a free living tropical and semitropical soil nematode which its larva penetrates skin. it can complete its life cycle in human body and causes autoinfection. most patients have no frank symptoms. but respiratory, gastrointestinal and skin manifestation may occur. we report a 76 year old man admitted to emergency room with muscle weakness, dyspnea, nausea, vomiting w...

BACKGROUND The impact of tuberculosis (TB) is exacerbated in Africa because of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) pandemic. Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) diagnosis is difficult in HIV-infected patients and negative sputum results are more common which leads to diagnostic delay and increases morbidity and mortality. Extra-pulmonary samples such as stool may be easier to obtain and our approac...