Stool specimens of 1238 workers in western region of Saudi Arabia were examined for infection with intestinal parasites and for fecal occult blood (FOB) to investigate the possibility that enteroparasites correlate to occult intestinal bleeding. Direct smears and formal ether techniques were used for detection of diagnostic stages of intestinal parasites. A commercially available guaiac test wa...

Background: The intestinal tract of human can be infected by protozoan parasites. In this short communication, the stool samples were collected from patients with diarrhea referred to Kut hospital, Iraq, and then the parasites (Giardia lamblia, Entamoeba histolytica, Cryptosporidium parvum) were considered for molecular identification. Methods: Stool samples were collected from 69 patients wit...

Intestinal protozoa are increasingly being studied because of their association with acute and chronic diarrhoea in immunocompromised as well as immunocompetent patients. Various community outbreaks due to contamination of water or food with these protozoa have further highlighted their importance in public health. Among these important pathogens are Giardia duodenalis, Entamoeba histolytica, C...

background: the main goal was to address the prevalence of enteric protozoan parasites in rural areas of bandar- abbas, southern iran and to compare the results with the only conducted study in 1978. methods: this descriptive study was performed from 2009 through 2010 on the 565 fecal samples. formalin-ether concentration technique was performed and the analysis was carried out using chi-square...

Aims: To reveal the interaction between intestinal microflora and protozoan parasite organisms how it affect their host’s performance.
 Discussion: The vertebrate gastro-intestinal system contain wide array of diverse but dynamic bacterial microbiota population that has ubiquitous consequences on its well-being including physiology, nutrition, metabolism, immunity, locally systematically. ...

PLATE 48. During a study of tissues from a series of turkeys which had been included in several experiments designed to throw light on the transmission of the protozoan parasite producing the so called blackhead, the writer came upon a case which furnishes the text for this communication. The history of the animal (No. 98) is given in a recent paper (1). It was raised with eighteen others in an...

Poor growth and intestinal parasitic infections are widespread in disadvantaged urban children. This cross-sectional study assessed factors influencing poor growth and intestinal parasites in 376 children aged three to six years in daycare centers in Salvador, in the Northeast Region of Brazil. Data was obtained from seven daycare centers on child weight, height, socio-economic status, health a...