A 2-year-old Indian girl was referred with symptoms of biliary colic and obstructive jaundice of 3 weeks’ duration. Abdominal ultrasonography revealed dilation of intrahepatic biliary radicles, a distended gallbladder, and a dilated common bile duct (CBD) of 15mm (normal diameter up to 6mm) containing multiple ill-defined, oval, hyperechoic shadows near the lower end (▶Fig. 1). Magnetic resonan...

Nowadays, cattle breeding is a major economic issue throughout the world. However, gastrointestinal nematode parasitism remains sanitary threat on global scale, affecting animal health, farm productivity and well-being of farmers. Until recently, chemical anthelmintics occupied prominent place in fight against these parasites. But some them have developed resistance to antiparasitic drugs. The ...

Worms are diseases caused by worms that need serious treatment. Sengkuang Dracontomelon dao (Blume) Merr & Rofle has the potential as an alternative worm treatment because it contains secondary metabolites i.e. alkaloids, saponins, tannins, flavonoids and triterpenoids which have activity anthelmintics. This study aims to determine activity, LC50 LT50 values ​​of sengkuang stem bark anthelm...

Worm disease can cause problems because it causes loss of carbohydrates and protein as well blood loss, thereby reducing the quality human resources. The largest nematodes infecting hundreds millions people are roundworms ( Ascaris lumbricoides ), whipworms Trichuris trichiura hookworms Ancylostoma duodenale Necatoramericanus ). These types worms widely found easy to grow in tropical subtropica...

This report describes clinical and parasitological findings of an 82-yr-old female patient who lived in a local rural village and suffered from severe chronic anemia for several years. She was transferred to the National Police Hospital in Seoul for management of severe dyspnea and dizziness. At admission, she showed symptoms or signs of severe anemia. Gastroduodenoscopy observed hyperemic muco...

Toxocariasis is a parasitic disease caused by roundworms of cats and dogs. The disease is endemic throughout the United States and causes significant morbidity in children, including damage to the lungs, liver, or central nervous system, especially the eyes. Two well established clinical syndromes of disease include visceral and ocular toxocariasis. Symptoms of visceral toxocariasis include abd...

The development of palaeoparasitology in Japan has occurred in recent decades. Despite the fact that archaeology in Japan has been slow to develop techniques for excavating ancient toilets, important information about the development of sanitation has been derived from the analysis of a few sites. This shows that the earliest people had very simple methods of sanitation. As populations increase...

Human toxocarosis is an important parasitic zoonosis caused by larval stages of Toxocara species, the roundworms from dogs and cats. Larval migration through different soft tissues in the human generates several clinical entities in the patient, such as visceral larva migrans, ocular toxocarosis, and neurotoxocarosis. Definitive diagnosis by histopathological methods is very difficult or almost...