Dug well water is often polluted by fecal waste containment such as septic tank and pit latrine system due to its distance. The common pathogenic parasites found in are E. histolytica Soil-Transmitted Helminths (STH). port de entry of both ingestion contaminated food or materials. This study was aimed analyze factors affecting the existence Entamoeba sp. cyst STH egg on dug Bungatan Village, Si...

The study was conducted to determine the coliform content of shellfish Anadara antiquata from three selected areas of Davao Gulf. One shot sampling was employed in the study and it was conducted within the month of February, 2010. Test for coliform and fecal coliform was done using the multiple-tube fermentation technique through the presumptive, confirmed and fecal coliform test. Total Colony ...

background: contamination of swimming pools’ water can lead to the transfer of different diseases to humans. the aim of this study was to investigate the quality of water in kerman swimming pools. methods: in this cross-sectional study, sampling from swimming pools was performed before and after swimming, every week. total number of samples collected was 150 samples. samples were investigated i...

BACKGROUND An accurate diagnosis of helminth infection is important to improve patient management. However, there is considerable intra- and inter-specimen variation of helminth egg counts in human feces. Homogenization of stool samples has been suggested to improve diagnostic accuracy, but there are no detailed investigations. Rapid disintegration of hookworm eggs constitutes another problem i...

BACKGROUND Water-related diseases are of great concern in developing countries like Nepal. Every year, there are countless morbidity and mortality due to the consumption of unsafe drinking water. Recently, there have been increased uses of bottled drinking water in an assumption that the bottled water is safer than the tap water and its use will help to protect from water-related diseases. So, ...

Published criteria for implicating Clostridium perfringens as the cause of food-poisoning outbreaks include finding a median fecal C. perfringens spore count of greater than 10(6)/g among specimens from ill persons. We investigated a food-poisoning outbreak with the epidemiologic characteristics of C. perfringens-related disease in a nursing home in which the median fecal spore count for ill pa...

Abstract The effect of four diets on the performance Dorper lambs that were artificially mix-infected with 1000 infective larvae (L3) Haemonchus contortus and L3 Trichostrongylus colubriformis every three days for 12 weeks was evaluated. For each diet, one infected group (n = 7) control 4) set up. contained following proportions hay (H) concentrate (C): Diet 1 - 100%H; 2 75%H:25%C; 3 50%H:50%C;...

CASE SUMMARY A 1-year-old, female spayed, domestic shorthair, indoor cat on the island of St Kitts was diagnosed with platynosomiasis, infection with a feline-specific liver fluke, and treated with praziquantel at the marketed dose for tapeworms (5 mg/kg; actual calculated dose 5.75 mg/kg). Serial fecal analyses showed that egg counts decreased to zero within 10 days of treatment but re-emerged...