PURPOSE To investigate the seroprevalence of toxocariasis in patients diagnosed as schizophrenia. PATIENTS AND METHODS Ninety-eight schizophrenic patients hospitalized at The Elazig Psychiatric Hospital were included in the study. Anti-Toxocara IgG and/or IgM antibodies were determined by using commercial Toxocara canis IgG and/or IgM ELISA kit. RESULTS Seropositivity for T. canis was detec...

Helminth parasitism of food and dairy animals has been responsible for significant economic losses throughout the world. Although a number of helminth parasites affect ruminants, but Haemonchus contortus and Ostertagia ostertagi are of paramount importance as they affect their hosts in a number of ways and often result in their death. The aim of the present trial was to do a comparative analysi...

Toxocara canis is a nematode parasite, commonly found in dogs. This roundworm parasite can invade the eye, causing visual impairment. Toxocara should be considered as a possible causative agent of posterior and diffuse uveitis, and it could be considered in the differential diagnosis of retinoblastoma. Ocular manifestations vary from severe endophthalmitis to silent incidental findings on a rou...

The clinical diagnosis of trichinellosis is difficult because its clinical manifestations are nonspecific. Detection of anti-Trichinella IgG by ELISA using T. spiralis muscle larval excretory-secretory (ES) antigens is the most commonly used serological method for diagnosis of trichinellosis, but the main disadvantage is false negativity during the early stage of infection. There is an obvious ...

Oral tolerance is the natural occurring phenomenon of a decreased immune response to previously fed antigens, which prevents induction of a response to dietary antigens. One of the mechanisms is deletion of T lymphocytes reactive to the fed antigen. Knowing that phenomenon, it seems appropriate to engage this mechanism for treatment of autoimmune diseases. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmu...

The immune system is designed to recognize and eliminate foreign (non-self) antigens. At the same time, there are mechanisms protecting the organism from development of inappropriate immune responses that are harmful to ones own body (allergy, autoimmunity) and those that help to silence the inflammatory responses and allow their resolution. Tolerance to self-antigens is a result of central tol...

Los nematodos constituyen un importante problema de salud pública, por ello, la identificación del Toxocara canis aislamientos en caninos cantón Salcedo, provincia Cotopaxi, Ecuador, mediante secuenciación región segundo espaciador transcrito interno (ITS-2) ADN ribosómico (ADNr), constituye una herramienta eficaz abordada el presente estudio. Fueron muestreados parásitos adultos género T. cani...

Canids are reservoir for some zoonoses helminthic disease. They are one of main public health problem. Theaim of this study was to ascertain frequency of gastrointestinal helminthic infection of stray dogs in Zabol city,southeaster of Iran. In this descriptive study, 30 stray dogs were euthanized, intestine was removed by necropsy.Then, the intestines was opened by scalpel and their contents pa...