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Ascaris lumbricoides eggs or artefacts? A diagnostic conundrum [PDF]
Parasitology, 2021 Abstract Due to the presence of artefacts in stool samples, the copromicroscopic diagnosis of Ascaris lumbricoides is not always straightforward, particularly in the case of fertilized decorticated eggs.
M. P. Maurelli +10 more
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Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2019 INTRODUCTION: Immunological control of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection is dependent on the cellular immune response, mediated predominantly by Th1 type CD4+ T cells.
João Hugo Abdalla Santos +9 more
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Deep Learning Approach for Ascaris lumbricoides Parasite Egg Classification [PDF]
J Parasitol Res, 2021 A. lumbricoides infection affects up to 1/3 of the world population (approximately 1.4 billion people worldwide). It has been estimated that 1.5 billion cases of infection globally and 65,000 deaths occur due to A. lumbricoides.
Narut Butploy +2 more
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EMC - Biologie Médicale, 2006 The number of people in the world with Ascaris is probably second only to those infected with the pinworm, Enterobius vermicularis. Ascaris was well known in Roman times as Lumbricus teres (confused with the common earthworm) and has probably been ...
S. Cassaing +2 more
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Ascaris lumbricoides: prevalence and associated factors among pre-school children in Rukiga district, Uganda: a cross-sectional study [PDF]
BMC Infectious DiseasesBackground Ascaris lumbricoides infestation remains a public health problem worldwide. It mainly affects children resulting into undernutrition, impaired growth and physical development, intestinal obstruction and death.
Martine Kasiita +3 more
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Scientific Reports, 2020 Ascariasis is a common public health problem of preschool and primary school children in developing countries like Pakistan. The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence and pattern of Ascaris lumbericoides (A.
Shahida Azhar Ali +10 more
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A role for eosinophils in the intestinal immunity against infective Ascaris suum larvae [PDF]
, 2013 The aim of this study was to explore the mechanisms of resistance against invading Ascaris suum larvae in pigs. Pigs received a low dose of 100 A. suum eggs daily for 14 weeks.
Chiers, Koen +6 more
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CT imaging of ascaris lumbricoides
Journal of the Belgian Society of Radiology, 2010 A 37-year-old man was referred to the department of internal medicine for chronic fever, asthenia and loss of weight. He had no relevant medical history but reported frequent travels to Africa.
F C Deprez, C Pauls, T Puttemans
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The Dynamics of Ascaris lumbricoides Infections [PDF]
Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 2016 The Anderson-May model of human parasite infections and specifically that for the intestinal worm Ascaris lumbricoides is reconsidered, with a view to deriving the observed characteristic negative binomial distribution which is frequently found in human communities.
Fowler, AC, Hollingsworth, TD
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