Stool examination is a requirement of the screening program for Thai workers seeking overseas employment. We report on the prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections among these workers; the stool examination results of 2,213 Thai workers who visited the Out-patients Department of the King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital between September 2000 and January 2001 were analysed. One hundred and ...

Two rumen protozoa vaccine formulations containing either whole fixed Entodinium or mixed rumen protozoa cells were tested on Merino sheep with the aim of decreasing the number and/or activity of protozoa in the rumen. Negative control (no antigen) and positive control (Tetrahymena corlissi antigens) treatments were also included in the experiment. Blood and saliva were sampled to measure the s...

This study aims to determine the prevalence of helminthiasis infection in domestic cats that live freely IPB Gunung Gede campus. used 15 samples stray cat feces Campus. The collected fecal were then examined qualitatively by native and flotation methods. results showed 4 out feral positively infected with protozoa a 26.6% on examination, whereas negative. positive result was indicated discovery...

are only a few nucleated cells in such a pulp, and if the haemoglobin be washed out by fixation in alcohol the tissue looks rarefied under the microscope. Such changes as these are entirely different from those to be discussed in this paper, and the splenomegaly of protozoal diseases will not be considered. In practically all acute pyogenic infections, but especially in septicaemias, the spleen...

Aside from early graft failure, infections are the second leading cause of death after heart transplantation (HTx). Therefore, prophylaxis, diagnosis and adequate therapy of infections are fundamental for the short and long-term success of heart transplantation. Because immunosuppressive drug therapy is a prerequisite for transplantation, the range of infection is much larger than after other k...

Pathogenic infections of the bowel are peculiarly prevalent in the tropics, where sanitary habits are primitive and flies and other vectors abound. It is incorrect to regard many of these infections as peculiar to the tropics; indeed most of them also are found in the temperate and the cold parts of the globe: The bacterial infections include those responsible for the bacillary dysenteries, the...

THE chemotherapy of bacterial diseases is a medical innovation of the last four years only. In the case of the protozoal infections, on the other hand, this form of treatment is comparatively ancient. The discovery of the effect of quinine in malaria dates from the seventeenth century, and mercury was used in syphilis in very early times. In I9IO Ehrlich and Hata published the discovery of the ...