OBJECTIVE The relationship between parasites and pediatric appendicitis is a highly debatable issue. This study aims to investigate the role of parasitic infestation in the etiology of acute pediatric appendicitis. METHODS A retrospective study including 1600 pediatric and adolescent patients who had undergone surgical therapy for a diagnosis of acute appendicitis over a period of ten years f...

The freshwater crayfish of the Aras Reservoir is an important economic fisheries resource of West Azarbaijan, Iran. This study was conducted to evaluate the prevalence of parasitic infestation of Crayfish seasonally in this area in 2010. Among 390 different sizes of Astacus leptodactylus which were examined,  a range of ectocommensals or ectosymbionts from a number of different phyla including ...

Intestinal parasitic infestation is a common condition in developing as well as developed countries. According to WHO Global Burden of Disease 2004 report, approximately 150.9 million of world population has high intensity infection by intestinal nematode while 37.7 million people alone from south East Asia are infected. Among developing countries like Pakistan, intestinal parasitic infestation...

I read the recent article by Basu et al(1) with a great interest. The authors described an interesting case of ocular cysticercosis manifesting with ptosis. Indeed, ocular cysticercosis is not a rare disease in the developing countries, and ptosis due to cysticercosis is sporadically reported. Sekhar et al reported that subconjunctival cyst might be related to ptosis and suggested that the surg...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the incidence of parasitic infestations and inflammation accompanying parasitosis in a series of appendectomy cases.  Methods: Six-hundred-sixty  patients who had undergone appendectomy in Bingöl State Hospital, Bingol, Turkey with the preliminary diagnosis of appendicitis between January 2012 and February 2015 were included in this retrospective study. They were retro...

Sir, The recent report on ‘Acute appendicitis and Schistosomiasis’ is very interesting.1 Figueiredo et al noted for ‘possibility of finding more patients with concurrent appendicitis and schistosomiasis’.1 In fact, the parasitic acute appendicitis is not an uncommon problem in the tropical world. According to the recent report by Jada et al, it was reported that ‘among 100 specimens, 48 faecoli...

This case report documents a 58-year-old male who presented to the clinic with a 12-month history of a burrowing sensation in his eyelids that he attributed to a parasitic infestation. After being extensively investigated and reviewed by relevant specialties, no evidence of parasitic infestation was found. He was diagnosed with and treated for blepharitis. Psychiatric referral for presumed delu...

One of the most important threats to global public health, especially in developing countries is parasitic infections. These infections are very common in children and young people especially those who kept in kindergarten and primary schools. Because of the high population density and sometimes by the lack of adequate hygiene, these places are prone to parasitic infections. Infestation causes ...

Military forces have missions that send them all over the globe. With the reemergence of bed bugs worldwide, the possibility of Servicemembers encountering them has increased. Special Operations Forces are often sent to locations that may not have integrated pest management support. Knowing how to identify and manage a bed bug infestation, with and without proper equipment and supplies, may bec...

The incidence of rheumatoid factor in inflammatory disorders of connective tissue, particularly rheumatoid arthritis, has been discussed by Ziff (1957), Black, Goldin, Poske, and Malmed (1959), Bywaters, Carter, and Scott (1959), Kellgren and Ball (1959), Dixon (1960), and Hill and Greenbury (1965), and in other rheumatic and non-rheumatic diseases by Ziff (1957), Kellgren and Ball (1959), and ...