Intestinal protozoan infection is one of the leading causes morbidity and mortality worldwide. However, it difficult to estimate true problem protozoal infections because cases are under-reported. This study aimed identify intestinal protozoa in healthy adults. used a categorical descriptive research design multistage random sampling technique. was conducted Pasie Nan Tigo, Koto Tangah, Padang ...

Metronidazole is a well-known antimicrobial agent, used for the treatment of anaerobic bacterial and protozoal infections. It generally well tolerated with common side effects like nausea, dizziness, headache metallic taste in mouth. But prolonged use metronidazole can cause neurotoxicity ataxic gait, dysarthria, seizures encephalopathy. Here, we are reporting case 60 years old male patient who...

The: chemotherapy and general treatment of syphilis is here dealt with in considerable detail, because of the great practical importance of the subject, and because the greatest advance in this new field of therapeutic science has been made in the treatment of syphilis. It is true that most advance has been made in the treatment of syphilis, relapsing fever, framboesia tropica and other spiroch...

The incidence of protozoal and helminthic infestations of the central nervous system (CNS) is less than 1%, but these infestations tend to follow a fatal course. They are more common among children, the elderly and immunocompromised individuals. CNS infections due to Entamoeba histolytica have been known for a long time. In recent years, especially in developing countries, there has been an inc...

This article contains highlights of "Guidelines for Preventing Opportunistic Infections among Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipients: Recommendations of the CDC, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and the American Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation," which was published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. There are sections on the prevention of bacterial, vira...

DISEASES carried by immigrants to this country from the Tropics include infections-viral, bacterial, protozoal and helminthic. Of these infections, some are transmissible and constitute a public health menace, some have only a very low degree of infectivity and give rise to little anxiety and some are innocuous under conditions which obtain in the United Kingdom. Smallpox is an example of the f...

Infection has been the major cause of death and morbidity in patients undergoing cardiac transplantation at Groote Schuur Hospital. Twenty-two (55%) patients suffered at least one major episode of infection, which accounted for 10 (59%) of the deaths in the first year. The major site of origin of infection was the lung, though dissemination was not infrequent. Bacteria accounted for 22 (59%) in...