a 57-year-old woman was referred with chief complaint of pallor and lethargy for 9 months. laboratory investigation was notable for anemia and occult blood in the stool exam. her past medical history was unremarkable. endoscopy of the upper gastrointestinal tract showed a large fungative reddish mass measuring 7 x 6 cm in the body of the stomach and multiple variable size polyps in the antrum (...

Enteric helminthic infection is one of the most important public health issues in developing countries. These infections are transmitted by faeco-oral route and cause significant morbidity among patients of all age groups, especially in school age and preschool age children. The clinical presentation may be vague and non-specific. Frequently, patients with enteric helminthic infection (especial...

The aims of the present study was to determine whether or not abomasal damages occurs in calves with abdominal distention using by plasma pepsinogen levels and positivity fecal occult blood test (FOBT). In study, 30 (distention group) 15 clinically healthy (control group), aged between 1-90 days, were used. Collected samples all used levels, bovine specific ELISA. Fresh stool also taken from re...

Large field studies of travelers' diarrhea for multiple destinations are limited by the need to perform stool cultures on site in a timely manner. A method for the collection, transport, and storage of fecal specimens that does not require immediate processing and refrigeration and that is stable for months would be advantageous. This study was designed to determine if enterotoxigenic Escherich...

Colorectal cancer is often considered the most preventable, yet least prevented, cancer. What makes it so preventable is the existence of a precancerous phase of the disease, the adenomatous polyp, which has a rather long dwell time and is usually readily detectable by structural examinations of the colon, such as colonos-copy, sigmoidoscopy, and more recently, computed tomography colonography....

Setting and participants. National Institutes of Health– supported trial with industry involvement that included 4482 adults in communities surrounding 22 participating regional and academic health systems in the United States. Participants were asymptomatic, aged 50 to 80 years, and deemed to be at average risk for colorectal cancer. Exclusion criteria included structural colorectal evaluation...

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OBJECTIVE To provide information about the characteristics of diarrheal stool in multi-drug resistant typhoid fever and observe the clinical course after treatment with furazolidone or ciprofloxacin. SETTING Hospital based. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Twenty one male children who were positive for multi-drug resistant S. typhi by blood and stool cultures, having diarrhea at the time of hospitaliza...

This study was performed to investigate the significance of gastric juice analysis (GJA) as a diagnostic criterion of a positive challenge in a standard oral cow's milk challenge (OCC) to confirm typical cow's milk protein-induced enterocolitis (CMPIE). Data from 16 CMPIE patients (aged 14 to 44 days) were analyzed. A standard OCC was openly executed using 0.15 g/kg of protein. Three symptoms (...