Sir,?I have read with great interest the article, 'A Case of Giardiasis' by H. S. Andleigh, in the June 1942 number of the Indian Medical Gazette. The author reports the striking results of treating a case of giardiasis with atebrin but does not offer any explanation for this, at first sight, surprising result. As this article may lead to further experiments with this method I may perhaps be pe...

Isospora belli, like Cryptosporidium sp., a sporozoan parasite of the small intestine, has been isolated from both immunodeficient and immunologically normal persons. In immunocompetent persons the infection may be asymptomatic; it frequently causes mild and self-limited diarrhea. The spectrum of the disease in persons with acquired immune deficiency syndrome is not well established. I. belli d...

Intestinal parasitic infections can negatively impact growth and nutrition in children. The infections can induce oxidative stress, resulting in a variety of illnesses. We measured antioxidant enzyme levels in orphan children infected with intestinal parasites to investigate the influence of nutritional status on antioxidant enzymes. This cross sectional study was conducted at an orphanage in T...

Paromomycin (PARO, synonym: aminosidine, Figure 1), a broad spectrum aminoglycoside antibiotic first isolated in 1956 from the fermentation of streptomyces[1], shows activity against both grampositive and gram-negative bacteria as well as some protozoa and cestodes. Although it is not used as an antibiotic any more, paromomycin has been approved since 2007 in India as an effective, well tolerat...

As there was not any previous comprehensive study on the serological tests for hepatic amebiasis in Iran, the indirect hemagglutination (IHA), indirect fluorescent antibody (IF A), and biocolored latex agglutination (BLA) tests were evaluated in the serodiagnosis of amebic liver abscess(ALA). For this purpose a total of 165 serum samples 18 of which were obtained from patients known to have...

Fifty blood samples were collected from sheep of different regions in Salah Al-Din Governorate for the period November 2019 to April 2020 detected some hematological and biochemical criteria infection with intestinal protozoa (Eimeria, Cryptosporidium) helminthes (Marshallagia sp, Trichostrongylus Ostertagia sp ,Haemonchus Chabertia , Nematodirus Toxocara Cooperia Oesophagostomum Strongyloid sp...

BACKGROUND Helminths affect the outcome of tuberculosis by shifting cell mediated immune response to humoral and by total suppression of the host immune system. On the reverse, Mycobacterium infection favors immune escape of helminths. Therefore assessing helminth co-infection rate and predisposing factors in tuberculosis patients is mandatory to set strategies for better case management. MET...