C. philippinensis is a parasite of the small intestine that causes a severe enteropathy and at times death in cases of delayed diagnosis or inappropriate treatment. This study aims to detect the molecular prevalence of C. philippinensis among diarrheic patients at Beni-Suef, Egypt. Stool samples were collected from 121 diarrheic patients and subjected to copro-parasitological examination and co...

BACKGROUND The serology of amebiasis is affected by low sensitivity and specificity. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the advantage of the indirect hemagglutination assay and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in the diagnosis of amebiasis, using Entamoeba histolytica soluble antigen (macerated amebic antigens) prepared from four different virulent isolates, continuously cultivated in the presence of th...

We present a single-molecule tool called the CoPro (concentration of proteins) method that uses millisecond imaging with convolution analysis, automated image segmentation and super-resolution localization microscopy to generate robust estimates for protein concentration in different compartments of single living cells, validated using realistic simulations of complex multiple compartment cell ...

Reconngurable coprocessors can exploit large degrees of instruction-level parallelism (ILP). In compiling sequential code for re-conngurable coprocessors, we have found it convenient to borrow techniques previously developed for exploiting ILP for very long instruction word (VLIW) processors. With some minor adaptations, these techniques are a natural match for automatic compilation to a reconn...

Financial support: FUNDUNESP (Fundação para o Desenvolvimento da UNESP) Process no 154/02DFP Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the employees of the Department of Parasitology for their support in the accomplishment of the copro-parasitologic exams; to the students of the disciplines of Biological Sciences and Nutrition for their help in the meetings and in the collection of information from ...