objective: helicobacter pylori is to blame for one of the most common chronic infections in humans and can cause peptic ulcer, gastritis, duodenitis and non-ulcer dyspepsia. developing a reliable test to detect the infection is of great importance. for a variety of reasons, the existing tests including the stool culture, biopsy, pcr, and urea breath test are not up to par. the pcr-elisa test is...

Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy (SDR) is a neurosurgical procedure currently used as a surgical treatment of children with spasticity in their legs. In SDR, the dorsal roots from L2 to S1 or S2 is partially sectioned. The primary goal of SDR is to reduce spasticity and improve the range of movement with preservation of muscle strength. The dorsal roots involved in spasticity are identified on the ba...

Giardia intestinalis is a widespread parasitic protozoa which has great significance as a public health threat. Molecular diagnostics of stool sample can be unreliable because of the presence of inhibitors of enzymatic reactions. The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of selected pre-treatment methods of fecal samples for further PCR-based diagnostics of G. intestinalis, and t...

Figure 2. A hatching Dicrocoelium dendriticum miracidium from the patient's stool sample (original magnification, ϫ20). Figure 1. A Dicrocoelium dendriticum egg. The dark brownish egg is thick-walled and relatively small when compared with other helminthic eggs found in human feces (size, 40 mm ϫ 20 mm). A not-very-prominent operculum is marked by arrows (original magnification, ϫ20). Diagnosis...

paper chromatography for sugar, were studied and the role of each in making the diagnosis was assessed. The demonstration of an abnormal amount (> J %) of reducing substances in the stools was confirmed to be a valuable screening test for sugar malabsorption. Stool chromatography was useful in diagnosing the type of sugar malabsorption present, but estimation of stoolpH proved to be an unreliab...

stool examination report was negative for any ova and cysts. The Pathologist reported that the black objects under study were not worms but of vegetable origin. On taking detailed dietary history it was found that those 'worms' appeared in the stool following ingestion of banana. Mother of the child was reassured about the nature of the 'worms'. The edible part of banana is sweet pulp and core ...

Dyspepsia and intestinal worm infestation are both common clinical conditions in a developing country like Kenya and thus this study was designed to look at the correlation between the two in a referral gastroenterology clinic at Kenyatta National Hospital. One hundred and twenty five patients with dyspepsia had their stool, duodenal aspirate and duodenal biopsy analysed for evidence of intesti...

The colon responds monomorphically to a variety of insults thus making it difficult to differentiate invasive amoebic colitis and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The authors present a case with chronic dysentery, haematochezia, anaemia and hypoproteinaemia. The endoscopic findings were suggestive of IBD. The stool examination was negative for trophozoites or cysts of parasites. The recto-colo...

A food-borne outbreak of gastroenteritis with more than 650 suspected cases occurred in April 2016 in Sollentuna, Sweden. It originated in a school kitchen serving a total of 2,700 meals daily. Initial microbiological testing (for Campylobacter, Salmonella, Shigella, Yersinia, Giardia, Cryptosporidium, Entamoeba histolytica, adeno-, astro-, noro-, rota- and sapovirus) of stool samples from 15 s...

It is now well established that Entamoeba moshkovskii and Entamoeba dispar are two distinct nonpathogenic species, but microscopically indistinguishable from the pathogenic species E. histolytica, the causative organism of amoebiasis. Traditionally diagnosis of E. histolytica infection has relied upon microscopic examination of cyst or trophozoite stage in fresh or fixed stool specimens which h...