To know the infection status of helminths in primary schoolchildren of southern parts of Vietnam, we performed an epidemiological study in Krong Pac district, Dak Lak Province, Vietnam. A total of 1,206 stool specimens were collected from ethnic Ede schoolchildren in 4 primary schools in 2015 and examined by the Kato-Katz technique. In addition, stool cultures were done by the Harada-Mori metho...

The aim of this study was to determine the most appropriate months for applying albendazole (ABZ; oral suspension dose 20 mg/kg body weight) to sheep naturally infected with Dicrocoelium dendriticum and kept at pasture, in order to reduce parasite egg shedding to a minimum, mainly during the cold months and, as a result, decrease pasture contamination by viable eggs. Five animal groups (G), hom...

Twenty horses naturally infected with nematodes were included in a blind, controlled field study on efficacy and safety of an oral 2% ivermectin formulation at a dose of 0.2 mg.kg(-1). Horses were divided into treated and non-treated (control) groups with ten animals each based on preliminary counts of eggs per gram of feces (EPG). Stool samples were collected after treatment for identification...

In an EPG-representation of a graph G, each vertex is represented by a path in the rectangular grid, and (v, w) is an edge in G if and only if the paths representing v an w share a grid-edge. Requiring paths representing edges to be x-monotone or, even stronger, both xand y-monotone gives rise to three natural variants of EPG-representations, one where edges have no monotonicity requirements an...

BACKGROUND Clonorchiasis, caused by Clonorchis sinensis, is widely distributed in Southeast Asia including China. Clonorchiasis is included in control programs of neglected tropical diseases by World Health Organization (WHO) because it is one of the major health problems in most endemic areas. Diagnosis of clonorchiasis plays a key role in the control programs. However, so far, there is no sat...

This article evaluates the use of emulsion gels (EGs) containing two different solid polyphenol extracts [from grape seed (R-EPG) or and olive (R-EPGO)] as animal fat replacers in development frankfurters. The incorporation EGs improved their lipid content, particularly R-EPG R-EPGO also contained high levels phenolic compounds (hydroxytyrosol flavanols). These frankfurters were judged acceptab...

Follow-up studies have been conducted every three years on the endemicity of Gymnophalloides seoi infection in a small coastal village of Chollanam-do (Province), Korea, since it was first known as an endemic area in 1994. Special attention was given to its egg laying capacity in the human host. In fecal examinations, the overall helminth egg and/or cyst positive rate was 78.7% (74/94) in 1997 ...

Soil contaminated with helminth eggs and protozoan cysts is a potential source of infection and poses a threat to the public, especially to young children frequenting playgrounds. The present study determines the levels of infection of helminth eggs in soil samples from urban and suburban playgrounds in five states in Peninsular Malaysia and identifies one source of contamination via faecal scr...

Electropalatography (EPG) is a well-known and established technique to measure the detailed time-varying contact pattern between the tongue and the hard palate. For EPG, the speaker wears an artificial palate in his mouth, which contains multiple electrodes (contact sensors) to register contact with the tongue. A related technique, albeit less known, is glossometry or optopalatography (OPG). Fo...

In this paper we continue the study of the edge intersection graphs of single bend paths on a rectangular grid (i.e., the edge intersection graphs where each vertex is represented by one of the following shapes: x, p, y, q). These graphs, called B1-EPG graphs, were first introduced by Golumbic et al (2009) [5]. We consider the natural subclasses of B1-EPG formed by the subsets of the four singl...