BACKGROUND The burden of parasitic disease imported into the temperate zone is increasing, and in the tropics remains very high. Thus, high quality diagnostic parasitology services are needed, but to implement clinical governance a measure of quality of service is required. AIM To examine performance in the United Kingdom National External Quality Assessment Scheme for Parasitology for eviden...

OBJECTIVE Parasitic diseases are a major public health problem in the tropical and sub tropical countries including the subcontinent region. We aimed to assess methods of Parasitology education in medical schools of Karachi Pakistan. METHODS Ten medical schools in Karachi, Pakistan were sent a structured questionnaire collecting information on different aspects of Parasitology education. The ...

conclusions it may be concluded that parasites are common in vegetables that are frequently eaten raw, and the use of tap water does little to remove them. regarding the results of this study, the importance of vegetables in the transmission of intestinal parasites is stressed, and it is necessary to improve the sanitary conditions of these kinds of food. results the findings of forty three sam...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to survey the Iranian Parasitology researchers' performance, and analyse and visualize the scientific outputs of their co-authorship network. METHODS This study was conducted using scientometric method and social network analysis (SNA). The data extracted from the Web of Science (WoS) databases in July 10th 2014. Totally, 1048 documents of all types in res...

a vermiform specimen taken from a 10-year-old boy patient with the chief complain of sneezing, coughing and nasal dis-charge with a history of consumption of fast snack in the day before and liver of sheep in two weeks ago was referred for diagnosis to the helminth taxonomy laboratory, dept. of mdical parasitology and mycology, school of public health, tehran university of medical sciences, ira...

to detect the earliest disease in the maximum number of patients at least cost to the community. In conclusion, there is offered an ideal community program of eradication of tuberculosis-a disease which still claims 60,000 deaths annually in the United States. This small volume is very readable, authoritative, and well documented. It offers much of interest-and a challenge-to all charged with t...

Ankara University, Veterinary Medicine, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, 06110, Diskapi, Ankara Gülthane Military Medical Academy, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Parasitology, 06018 Ankara Veterinary Control and Research Institute, Department of Toxicology, Etlik, Ankara Refik Saydam National Institute of Health Communicable Diseases Research Centre Parasitology Laboratory, 06100 ...