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Guidelines for the purification and characterization of extracellular vesicles of parasites
Journal of Extracellular Biology, Volume 2, Issue 10, October 2023., 2023 Abstract Parasites are responsible for the most neglected tropical diseases, affecting over a billion people worldwide (WHO, 2015) and accounting for billions of cases a year and responsible for several millions of deaths. Research on extracellular vesicles (EVs) has increased in recent years and demonstrated that EVs shed by pathogenic parasites ...
Carmen Fernandez‐Becerra +30 more
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An Unwanted Guest in the Biliary Tract: A Case Report
Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 2019 Ascariasis is a frequent human gastrointestinal tract helminthic disease caused by Ascaris lumbricoide. It usually stays in the intestinal lumen and occasionally migrates into the biliary tract through ampulla of Vater .Biliary ascariasis is a critical ...
Nita Lohala +3 more
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Estimation of Ascaris infection risks in children under 15 from the consumption of wastewater-irrigated carrots [PDF]
, 2009 Ascaris lumbricoides, the large human roundworm, infects ,1,200 million people, with children under the age of 15 being particularly at risk. Monte Carlo quantitative microbial risk analyses were undertaken to estimate median Ascaris infection risks in
Mara, D.D., Sleigh, A.
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Vaccination with chimeric protein induces protection in murine model against ascariasis
Vaccine, 2020 Joseane Camilla de Castro +12 more
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Gallbladder ascariasis: a case report and review of literature
International Surgery Journal, 2021 Ascaris Lumbricoides uncommonly presents as a cholecystitis due to anatomical considerations. Despite that it presents 2.1% of the hepatobiliary ascariasis.
A. Janjua +4 more
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Glycosphingolipids in human parasites
FEBS Open Bio, Volume 13, Issue 9, Page 1625-1635, September 2023., 2023 The parasites that infect humans and animals include protozoans and helminths (worms). Their secretions and cellular membranes contain complex glycomolecules including glycoproteins and glycolipids. A class of glycolipids shared between humans and parasites are the glycosphingolipids (GSLs) containing a lipid (ceramide) linked to a glycan ...
Richard D. Cummings
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Intestinal intussusception in an adult caused by helminthic parasitosis [PDF]
, 2016 Intestinal intussusception is an uncommon acute condition in adults and is most commonly caused by an intestinal tumor mass. Helminthic parasitosis is a widespread infection in Africa, and the load of worms is often high in individuals living in areas ...
Ciardi, Gaia +4 more
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Soil-transmitted helminth infections [PDF]
, 2018 More than a quarter of the world's population is at risk of infection with the soil-transmitted helminths Ascaris lumbricoides, hookworm (Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus), Trichuris trichiura, and Strongyloides stercoralis. Infected children
Addiss, David G. +3 more
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Ascariasis complicada en un hospital infantil de referencia en Cartagena-Colombia.
Revista Ciencias Biomédicas, 2016 Introducción: la infección por Ascaris lumbricoides compromete ampliamente a países subdesarrollados como Colombia, afectando a grupos poblacionales vulnerables, especialmente a la población pediátrica. Hasta una quinta parte de los pacientes pediátricos
Joulen Mo Carrascal +3 more
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Characterization of Ascaris from Ecuador and Zanzibar [PDF]
, 2014 To shed light on the epidemiology of ascariasis in Ecuador and Zanzibar, 177 adult worms retrieved by chemo-expulsion from either people or pigs were collected, measured and subjected to polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (
A.M. Sparks +9 more
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