Background: Despite continued and comprehensive planning of the world health organization (WHO), intestinal parasitic infections are a serious public problem in developing countries. Due to the high prevalence of cancers in Ardabil province and subsequently the high possibility of intestinal parasitic infections among the people, the aim of this study was to assess the frequency of intestinal p...

ENGLISH/ANGLAIS] Affiliations: 1 Department of Microbiology, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, NIGERIA 2 Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, NIGERIA * Email Address for Correspondence/ Adresse de courriel pour la correspondance: heleninabo@yahoo. co.uk Accepted/Accepté: March, 2012 Full Citation: Inabo HI, Aminu M, Muktar H, Adeniran S. Profile of Inte...

Over the past six decades, the Chinese government made parasitoses with a high disease burden, including soil-transmitted nematode infections, malaria, leishmaniasis, filariasis, and schistosomiasis, a public health priority because they were seen to be crucial impediments to the development of rural areas. As a result, these debilitating parasitic diseases that used to be widely prevalent have...

human fasciolosis is deemed as an emerging/re-emerging infection, hence making it an important human parasitic disease. in contrast to northern parts of iran, human cases of fasciolosis in southern iran are rare and sporadic. we report a sporadic case of fasciolosis in southern iran (fars province) who presented with prolonged fever. our report could suggest that there might be new foci emergin...

After 30 years of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic, parasites have been one of the most common opportunistic infections (OIs) and one of the most frequent causes of morbidity and mortality associated with HIV-infected patients. Due to severe immunosuppression, enteric parasitic pathogens in general are emerging and are OIs capable of causing diarrhoeal disease associated with HIV...