BACKGROUND Parasitic infections affect tens of millions of pregnant women worldwide, and directly or indirectly lead to a spectrum of adverse maternal and fetal/placental effects. The objective of this study was to assess the prevalence of intestinal parasite infections and associated risk factors among pregnant women attending antenatal care center in Felege Hiwot Referral Hospital, Bahir Dar ...

Parasites and infectious diseases are well-known threats to primate populations. The main objective of this study was to provide baseline data on fecal parasites in the cercopithecid monkeys inhabiting Côte d'Ivoire's Taï National Park. Seven of eight cercopithecid species present in the park were sampled: Cercopithecus diana, Cercopithecus campbelli, Cercopithecus petaurista, Procolobus badius...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Fasciola hepatica is a rare zoonotic parasite that infects the liver of many mammals including humans. The aim of this study was to determine the seroprevalence of fascioliasis in Van province by ELISA (antibody detection) on the assumption that not all cases could be detected by stool examination alone. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of randomly selected 1,600 patients, direct...

Schistosomes are long-lived parasites, hence schistosomiasis is a chronic disease with severe long-term implications. However, definitive diagnosis of active infection has been difficult because demonstration of infection has depended on detecting parasite eggs in urine and/or stool. In the case of Schistosoma haematobium which parasitizes the urinogenital system, this method has low sensitivit...

Oesophagostomum bifurcum, as well as hookworm infections are hyperendemic among humans in northern Togo and Ghana. For parasite-specific diagnosis a coproculture is obligatory, because only the infective larvae, and not the eggs, can be distinguished morphologically. The sensitivity of duplicate coprocultures from a single stool sample was found to be above 90% in comparison to a gold standard ...

Blastocystis hominis is a worldwide distributed microorganism with no definite host. In addition to human beings it has been diagnosed in variety of animals. This organism which is abundantly found in routine stool examinations and also 'in some cases has been identified as a factor causing severe diarrhea, earlier regarded as a fungi. Later it was distinguished as cyst of intesinal Trichomonas...

Objective The aim of this study was to determine the status intestinal parasitic infections in immunocompromised patients Bushehr province, southwest Iran by conventional and molecular methods. Methods A total 201 stool samples were collected from kidney transplant recipients, AIDS under chemotherapy. Samples healthy people as control group. specimens tested using various Polymerase chain react...

causes human intestinal cyclosporiasis. It is more common in the immunocompromised patients and mainly seen people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA), post-renal transplant (PRT) children (IC). Diagnostic microscopy for oocysts of parasite less sensitive, requiring examination multiple stool samples. Here we developed a new single run polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay detection it was used to know...

Microscopic examination of feces is a standard laboratory method for diagnosing gastrointestinal parasite infections. In North America, the ovum and parasite (O&P) examination is typically performed using stool that is chemically fixed in polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and formalin, after which the stool is concentrated by filtration to enhance sensitivity. Mini Parasep solvent-free (SF) tubes allow c...

BACKGROUND Refugees may arrive for resettlement with asymptomatic parasitic infections, and eosinophilia may be the only clue to the presence of infection. Our aim was to determine the prevalence of eosinophilia and develop a standardized approach to the evaluation of asymptomatic refugees with eosinophilia. METHODS We reviewed the medical records of refugees seen from October 1998 through Ma...