EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES ON ASCARIS AND HOOKWORM INFECTION

Patterns of hookworm and Ascaris infection in Dar es Salaam.

Stooi samples were collected for parasitological examination from a spatially stratified random sample of 194 households throughout Temeke District, a peri-urban area in Dar es Salaam,-Tanzania. Specimens were either examined on the same day or stored at + 4°C until examination on the next working day. They were prepared by the formol-ether concentration method and the Kato Katz technique (Katz...

Epidemiological study on the preventive effect of thiabendazole as an ovicide against human hookworm, Trichuris and Ascaris infections.

Epidemiological analyses on the preventive effect of thiabendazole as an ovicide against human helminth infections are described . Thiabendazole was mixed in night-soil once a month during a period from April to October 1964 in the control of hookworm infection, and from June 1964 to March 1966 in the control of Ascaris and Trichuris infections. The findings are as follows: (1) The rate of new ...

Comparison and validation of two mathematical models for the impact of mass drug administration on Ascaris lumbricoides and hookworm infection

The predictions of two mathematical models of the transmission dynamics of Ascaris lumbricoides and hookworm infection and the impact of mass drug administration (MDA) are compared, using data from India. One model has an age structured partial differential equation (PDE) deterministic framework for the distribution of parasite numbers per host and sexual mating. The second model is an individu...

Hookworm Infection

Epidemiological and immunopathological studies on Porcine parvovirus infection in Punjab

AIM The aim of this study was to get the first-hand knowledge about the seroprevalence of Porcine parvovirus (PPV) in Punjab and a diagnosis of PPV from abortion cases of swine using gross, histopathological, and immunohistopathological techniques to observe the tissue tropism of the virus strain. MATERIALS AND METHODS Tissue samples from the reproductive tract of pig (n=32), placental tissue...