The recent profile of parasitic diseases in Japan has changed dramatically from public health problems with high community prevalence of classic soil-transmitted parasitoses (ascariasis, hookworm disease, etc) to epidemics of various new types of parasitoses (larva migrans, zoonotic parasitoses, imported parasitoses, opportunistic parasitoses, etc). Against this background of change are factors...

We are concerned in this article with six intestinal parasitoses-the four main soiltransmitted helminthiases (ascariasis, trichuriasis, hookworm infection, and strongyloidiasis) and the two leading intestinal protozoan infections (amebiasis and giardiasis). These two groups of parasitoses depend on fecal contamination, but there is a significant epidemiologic difference between them. That is, t...

The relationship between European bison and cervidae is a good model for studies on the influence of migration and introduction of new species on the helmhninthofauna of wild ruminants and the occurrence of new parasitoses. Changes in the helminthofauna of bison and deer under the influence of changes in the environment and living conditions, as well as the introduction and migration of other s...

Certain intestinal parasitoses may be observed more in kindergartens, boarding houses, hostels, schools and orphanages where children live together under poor sanitary conditions. Both the climatic conditions and the eating habits of the people affect the prevalence of intestinal parasites(l-10). Some differences in the rate of prevalence have also been observed because of different diagnostic ...

To date the diagnosis of abdominal angiostrongyliasis (AA) depends on the histological identification of Angiostrongylus costaricensis (AC) in surgical specimens. However, microscopic evaluation is time consuming and often fails in identifying the parasite. We tested whether PCR might help in the diagnosis of AA by identifying parasite DNA in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue. We u...

BACKGROUND Helminth intestinal parasitoses are responsible for high levels of child mortality and morbidity. Hence, the capacity to diagnose these parasitoses and consequently ensure due treatment represents a factor of great importance. OBJECTIVES The main objective of this study involves comparing two methods of concentration, parasitrap and Kato-Katz, for the diagnosis of intestinal parasi...

Current issues concerning Parasitology and Mycology with regard to diseases of the skin and its appendages are presented. Aspects of diagnostics, clinical picture and therapy of skin and nail mycoses, as well as difficulties in the diagnosis and treatment of both native parasitoses (toxoplasmosis) and imported human tropical parasitoses (malaria, filariosis) have been emphasised. The clinical i...

An epidemiologic study was conducted in San Cayetano, a village in the province of Corrientes, Argentina, fo determine the prevalence of intestinal parasitoses in children. Eighty-eight households were randomly selected. Stool samples were collected from 207 children (72% of the school-age populafion and 12% of fhe total village population) over a period of six consecutive days, and were subjec...

Basing on 43 lectures and reports from the scope of current parasitological and mycological issues presented during the 50th Jubilee Clinical Day of Medical Parasitology (Lodz, 19–20 May 2011), the increasing importance of parasitic diseases and mycoses in medicine was presented. Difficulties in diagnosis and treatment of both imported parasitoses (malaria, intestinal amoebiosis, mansonelliasis...