871 mesenteric lymph nodes taken from 110 native cattle from Urmia slaughter-house with differentages were examined for Linguatula serrata infection. The lymph nodes were studied based on their colourand consistency. 44% of the cattle were found positive for L. serrata infection. The number of parasitesisolated from each infected lymph node varied from 1 to 69 with a mean of 5.48. There were no...

Intestinal parasitic infections (IPI) are one of the most prevalent infections in humans residing in developing countries and its burden is high among school aged children. This cross-sectional study was conducted to determine the prevalence of intestinal parasitic infection and types of intestinal parasites in rural public school children of Nepal. It included students from Nursery to Class X ...

Nestling is a defenceless stage in the life of birds in several ways. For instance, the possibilities to escape infection and infestation by several parasitic diseases are greatly reduced in nestlings. This fact implies that a number of strategies and counter strategies could evolve in hosts to avoid parasites and in parasites to locate and exploit young hosts. An increasing number of nestlings...

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a neglected tropical disease that affects the poorest communities and can cause substantial morbidity and mortality. Visceral leishmaniasis is characterized by the presence of Leishmania parasites in the spleen, liver and bone marrow, hepatosplenomegaly, pancytopenia, prolonged fever, systemic inflammation and low body mass index (BMI). The factors impacting on th...

BACKGROUND Currently there is no vaccine available in use against any form of leishmaniases worldwide. OBJECTIVE To assess potential of a live-attenuated Leishmania major promastigates, for protection against a challenge infection with L. major in BALB/c mice. DESIGN A laboratory based study. SETTING Study was carried out at Centre for Biotechnology Research and Development, Kenya Medical...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of house rat zoonotic intestinal parasites from Surabaya District, East Java, Indonesia that have the potential to cause opportunistic infection in humans. House rat fecal samples were collected from an area of Surabaya District with a dense rat population during May 2015. Intestinal parasites were detected microscopically using direct...

A total of 8850 stool samples (Rawalpindi = 5360 and Islamabad = 3490) from seven hospitals of the twin cities of Rawalpindi-Islamabad were examined for intestinal helminths during September 1980 to September 1981 and the following parasites were recorded: Taenia saginata, Hymenolepis nana, Ascaris lumbricoides, Enterobius vennicularis, Trichuris trichiura, and Hookwonn. Of the total cases exam...

Members of the parasitic dinoflagellate genus lethally infect other marine dinoflagellates, including red tide forming and toxin-producing species. The known geographical distribution of sp. parasites in costal waters of the northern hemisphere is more likely reflecting a lack of information from other areas rather than the actual picture. We investigated the presence of sp. parasites infecting...

the present study investigated the effects of first record of co-infection of three clinostomum sp.; clinostomum complanatum (rudolphi, 1819), c. tilapiae (ukoli, 1966), and euclinostomum hetereostomum (1809) in tilapia zilii. there was differential parasitic effects resulting in selection for relatively better adaptiveness to host's microhabitats, more population size, and frequent host locati...

The present study aimed to measure the prevalence of intestinal parasites among children with gastrointestinal tract infections from different slum areas Dhaka. Furthermore, a comparison was made accuracy direct smear (DS) and formol-ether concentration (FEC) techniques in detection infection. overall parasitic infection 72.46% combined method. By smear, 2 species protozoa (11.59%), cestode (5....