The World Health Organization estimates that a staggering two billion people harbor parasitic worm infections. Parasitic worms also infect livestock and crops, affecting food production with a resultant economic impact. In view of this, an attempt has been made to study the anthelmintic activity to validate the Eritrean unorthodox medicines. In this study, aqueous extracts of Acacia etbaica, Co...

background: the present study was carried out to describe the epidemio-logical aspects of gastrointestinal helminthic infections of canids in chahar-mahal and bakhtiari province, the central western part of iran . methods: forty nine canid species including , dogs, jackals, foxes and wolves were included in this study. the contents of their alimentary canal were in-spected in order to isolate a...

Soil transmitted helminths are parasitic groups of worms that live in countries with subtropical or tropical climates. In humans, when exposed to eggs larvae, they can cause infection. Stool examination is divided into qualitative and quantitative examination. Qualitative direct examination, flotation, tape, deposition, thick preparations. Kato-Katz Stoll quantitative. The purpose this study wa...

Parasitic helminths (worms belonging to several metazoan phyla) cause considerable morbidity and mortality in humans. They are an important veterinary problem, and they result in significant economic losses in animal grazing and agriculture. Experimental studies on parasitic helminths have been limited by a lack of parasite cell lines and methods for molecular genetic analyses. We evaluated par...

The Acacia seyal Dell family Mimosaceaeis is known locally as Talha tree. Many medicinal uses such as treatment of dysentery, leprosy, colds, diarrhea, hemorrhage, ophthalmic, intestinal ailments, rheumatic pains, colds and fevers, have been attributed to this tree. Schistosomiasis, a water-borne parasitic disease caused by Schistosome(s) a genus of digenetic trematode worms, infects man and an...

The nematode Angiostrongylus cantonensis is a zoonotic pathogen and the etiological agent of human angiostrongyliasis or rat lungworm disease. Hawai'i, particularly east Hawai'i Island, is the epicenter for angiostrongyliasis in the USA. Rats (Rattus spp.) are the definitive hosts while gastropods are intermediate hosts. The main objective of this study was to collect adult A. cantonensis from ...

Schistosomiasis is one of the most common human parasitic diseases whose socioeconomic impact is only surpassed by malaria. Praziquantel (PZQ) is the only drug commercially available for the treatment of all schistosome species causing disease in humans. However, there has been stronger evidences of PZQ-resistance on Schistosoma mansoni and thus it is very important to study the phenotypic char...

Three species of trichostrongylid nematodes; Trichostrongylus colubri-fonnis (GILES, 1892), Impalaia tuberculata MONNIG, 1923 and Paraheligmonel-loides kenyensis gen. et sp. n. are described. All worms were found in the small intestines of the Pronolagus sp. from Kenya. This is the first record of parasitic nematodes from the genus Pronolagus. 1. tuberculata is the first record of the genus Imp...

Dioctophymatosis is an infestation by Dioctophyma renalis (the giant kidney worm), a relatively uncommon parasitic roundworm that infects carnivorous mammals. Since the early 1900s, dioctophymatosis has been confirmed in < 20 humans worldwide. A 70-year-old man attended our Hospital, complaining of having expelled 2 large worms while urination along with haematuria 2 days post-admission. On MR ...