pit of the stomach. Pier prescription was :?? Babarang 2 chittaks, Grur 2 chittaks, mix and divide into 3 boluses, one bolus daily for 3 days. Her diet on these three days had been ordinary " khichri " on the first day, and bhat prepared from roasted wheat on the next two days. The first day she passed a semi-solid motion, the nextday another motion of similar consistence, and with this was exp...

The objective of this epidemiological study was to determine whether cysticercosis and especially neurocysticercosis is endemic in Soutou village about half a century after the 1962 outbreak. This study was carried out from September 2009 to February 2010. It involved a questionnaire administration, serology, treatment, coproscopy and neuro-imaging. Four hundred and three serum samples were col...

Spasskyellina mandi n. sp. (Proteocephalidea: Monticelliidae) is described from the Siluriform fish Pimelodus ornatus Kner, 1857, caught in the Paraná River, Paraná, Brazil. The new species differs from other species of the same genus mainly by a fewer number of testes and by a larger osmoregulatory canal. This is the second species of proteocephalidean cestode collected in P. ornatus.

An aberrant case of proliferating coenurosis caused by Taenia serialis in immunosuppressed mice is described. The coenuri closely resembled examples of racemose cysticerci described in the literature and the present results are discussed with reference to human cases of asexually proliferating larval cestode infections.

Thirteen adult indigenous chickens from Oodi, Kgatleng district, Botswana, were examined for helminth parasites. Two species of nematodes, Ascaridia galli and Heterakis gallinarum, and species of the cestode genus Raillietina, were recovered. A. galli and H. gallinarum were the most commonly seen parasites. The nematode A. galli occurred concurrently with Raillietina spp.

I ‘ man, hydatid disease is caused by the larval stage of a small tapeworm of dogs and other canines. Most human infections are from Echinococcus granulosus and are associated with the raising of sheep and cattle, the presence of domestic dogs, and the lack of proper health controls. The lungs are involved in 20 percent ofthe patients. The following is an uncommon presentation of pulmonary hyda...

this study conducted to provide the status of parasite communities of four sturgeon species viz. acipenser stellatus , a. gueldenstaedtii , a. nudiventris , and huso huso in the southwest of the caspian sea and their histopathological effects on the examined fishes. for this purpose a total of 93 individuals of four sturgeon species were caught in two fisheries regions from the southwest of the...