background: continus evaluation of the prevalent of infectious disease prevalence is one of the important needs for the health and treatment programs in the country. this article aimed to evaluate the latest studies on intestinal parasitic infections in kermanshah district  and find out trend of such infections in this area during past years and decades. methods: internet search engines (pubmed...

Stool specimens of 1238 workers in western region of Saudi Arabia were examined for infection with intestinal parasites and for fecal occult blood (FOB) to investigate the possibility that enteroparasites correlate to occult intestinal bleeding. Direct smears and formal ether techniques were used for detection of diagnostic stages of intestinal parasites. A commercially available guaiac test wa...

BACKGROUND Plasmodium vivax is responsible for a significant portion of malaria cases worldwide, especially in Asia and Latin America, where geo-helminthiasis have a high prevalence. Impact of the interaction between vivax malaria and intestinal helminthes has been poorly explored. The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of intestinal helminthiasis on the concentration of hemo...

the intestinal parasitic infection is one of the major health problems in northern parts of iran, especially in rural areas. in order to determine the prevalence of intestinal parasites and the effect of some factors such as age, sex, region on the prevalence of intestinal parasites, a study was carried out in rural areas of tonekabon, caspian littoral, from jul. 1991 to feb. 1992. a total of 2...

This study describes the parasitic fauna of Oxydoras niger from the Coari Lake, tributary of the medium Solimões River, State of Amazonas, Brazil, and the relationship between the number of Monogenoidea and the condition factor. From a total of 27 examined fish, 70.3% were parasitised by at least one parasite species as follows: Ichthyophthirius multifiliis (Protozoa), Chilodonella sp. (Protozo...

The cellular constituents of the innate defense system in the intestine include epithelial cells, goblet cells, dendritic cells and macrophages. The front line of this system is the mucous layer containing goblet cells which secrete mucin [6,7]. The response of goblet cells was observed in several intestinal infections due to bacteria, viruses and parasites. Decreases number of goblets cells (h...

during 1979-77 a large number of kurdish populations in northern part of iraq temporarily immigrated to iran and settled in dezful area of khuzestan province, south-west iran. faecal examination of 3,263 samples for intestinal metazoan parasites and 1,154 urine samples for detecting schistosoma haematobium, infection were performed in different sex and age groups. the percentages of prevalent i...

Intestinal and urinary helminthes are distributed worldwide, particularly in tropical and sub-tropical areas. More than one billion of the world’s population, including atleast 400 million school children are chronically infected with Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura and the hookworms1 while schistosomiasis affects nearly 200 million people in 75 countries. The prevalence of infections...

The prevalence of intestinal helminthes among schoolchildren of both sexes in a tropical rainforest community of Southeastern Nigeria was investigated. A total of 340 children were examined during the study with 230 (75.7%) of them infected with at least one helminth parasite. Among 117 urban and 187 rural schoolchildren who participated in the study, 74 (63.3%) and 156 (83.4%) urban and rural ...