Myrtus, commonly called myrtle, is a genus of flowering plants in the Myrtaceae family. This study aimed to review myrtle’s pharmaceutical, food, and other uses. The pharmacological effects myrtle for antioxidant, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory activities, reduction COVID-19 symptoms, anti-diabetic animal model, hepatoprotective rat antihypertensive, control intestinal helminthiasis mice inhi...

Although the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends chemotherapy for Ascaris, Trichuris and hookworm infections targeted at school-age children as a feasible and cost-effective control strategy, there is no policy-backed approach for helminth control in Nigeria. This paper makes a case for regular school-based programs to deliver chemotherapy so as to reduce the burden of helminth infection...

BACKGROUND Intestinal helminthiasis is a debilitating parasitic disease found in many parts of Uganda including Luweero district. In the district, the disease causes as high as 9% morbidity in children below five years. There was very scanty district information on the disease based mainly on hospital records despite this figure. The current study was carried out to provide data to plan for its...

Gastrointestinal helminthiasis in developing countries contributes to malnutrition and anemia. Diagnosis and treatment of helminthiasis, especially with low worm load is an unmet public health need in such settings. The infection may sometimes become manifest when a second pathology leads to purgation of the gastrointestinal tract. Two cases of helminthiasis are presented in which the infection...

this investigation was performed on 1056 stool samples collected from isfahan area (with high intensity of infection) and dasht-mishan area of khuzestan. as indicated in tables 1, 2 and 3 the results of kato thick-smear technique is comparable to those conventional methods of formalin-ether and flotation methods, plus low cost, simplicity and practicability of kato's thick-smear. for ascaris eg...

In this study, we aimed to establish the prevalence and risk factors relating to gastrointestinal helminthiasis, and to characterize the sanitary management practiced among sheep herds in the Sertão region of the state of Paraíba, northeastern Brazil, based on factors that condition the ways of controlling these parasites in these herds. The research was carried out between April and July 2012....