School attendance records of all primary schools in a guinea worm-endemic village in southwestern Nigeria were examined to determine the cause of missed school days and school drop-outs. At the time of the survey, 1,495 pupils (768 boys and 727 girls were registered in the 4 primary schools in the village, of which 21% of the pupils were infected with guinea worm disease (GWD). Female pupils ha...

 Abstract Alvelolar hydatid disease is caused by E. multilocularis. Human infection occurs at the larval stage of this small tape worm (1.2 to 4.5 mm). In this article we studied alveolar hydatid disease in a 50 year old woman who presented with a hepatic mass. Liver biopsy and histopathologic evaluation showed alvelolar hydatidosis of the liver. Then resection of the left lobe of liver was don...

The speed of the spread of Internet worms increased dramatically in recent years. Moreover it is certain that it will continue to increase in the near future with the increase in available bandwidth and network resources. The fastest known worm (only in literature) is the Flash worm, which can infect over a million hosts in less than one second. This paper presents a variant of the Flash worm t...

Giant and stable worm micelles formed from poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG)-based diblock copolymer amphiphiles have the potential advantage compared to smaller assemblies for delivery of a large quantity of hydrophobic drugs or dyes per carrier. Here we show that worm micelles can be targeted to cells with internalization and delivery of nontoxic dyes as well as cytotoxic drugs. Constituent copolym...

Code analysis and simulation of network worm infection are useful methods to evaluate how it spreads and its effects [1]. But a bug in infection algorithm or the way of implementing a random number generator etc. affects the retrieval behavior of network worm infection. It is important to evaluate the retrieval behavior of network worm infection in an experimental environment for complementing ...