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Patent Human Infections with the Whipworm, Trichuris trichiura, Are Not Associated with Alterations in the Faecal Microbiota [PDF]

, 2013
Background: The soil-transmitted helminth (STH), Trichuris trichiura colonises the human large intestine where it may modify inflammatory responses, an effect possibly mediated through alterations in the intestinal microbiota.
A Olsen, AJ Bancroft, AL Kau, AL Moncayo, Alan W. Walker, AW Walker, C De Filippo, C Quince, CA Figueiredo, DA Bundy, EG Zoetendal, EK Costello, GD Wu, H Sokol, J Bethony, J Maukonen, JL Shin, Jorge Reyes, JS Crowther, Julian Parkhill, KS Hayes, LC Rodrigues, LS Mansfield, M Reina Ortiz, Maritza Vaca, Martha Chico, MI Bahl, MJ Broadhurst, MP Bryant, N Segata, P Endara, P Steinmann, PB Eckburg, PD Schloss, Philip Cooper, RW Li, RW Li, RW Summers, RW Summers, S Wu, ST Walk, Stefan Bereswill, Susannah J. Salter, T Yatsunenko, TT MacDonald, VB Young, Y Suputtamongkol   +46 more
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RARE CASE OF ASCARIASIS DETECTED BY COLONOSCOPY ON THE BACKGROUND OF ELEVATED LEVELS OF FECAL CALPROTECTIN

Problems of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases
Introduction: The causative agents of ascariasis in humans are two species: Ascaris lumbricoides and Ascaris suum. For diagnosis, a fecal sample is most often examined.
Rumen Harizanov, Iskren Kaftandjiev, Iskra Rainova, Nina Tsvetkova   +3 more
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Parasitas intestinais em centros de educação infantil municipal de Lages, SC, Brasil Intestinal parasites in nursey schools of Lages, southern Brazil

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2004
Infecção por enteroparasitas foi avaliada em 200 crianças em idade escolar, residentes em Lages. A prevalência geral entre helmintos e protozoários foi de 70,5% com 61,4% no sexo masculino e 74,5% no feminino.
Rosiléia Marinho de Quadros, Sandra Marques, Andréia Aparecida Ribeiro Arruda, Patrícia Simone Wolff Rosa Delfes, Íris Aparecida Azevedo Medeiros   +4 more
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Immune Responses in Human Necatoriasis: Association between Interleukin-5 Responses and Resistance to Reinfection [PDF]

, 2004
Cytokine and proliferative responses to Necator americanus infection were measured in a treatment-reinfection study of infected subjects from an area of Papua New Guinea where N. americanus is highly endemic.
Brown, A.P., Pritchard, D.I., Quinnell, R.J., Raiko, A., Shaw, M.-A.   +4 more
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The application of proteomic methods (MALDI-toff MS) for studying protein profiles of some nematodes (dirofilaria and ascaris) for differentiating species

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2019
Introduction: Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-toff MS) is a reliable method for diagnosing a number of bacterial and fungal infections.
Sergey Andreevich Nagorny, Anna Valentinovna Aleshukina, Iraida Sergeevna Aleshukina, Larisa Alexandrovna Ermakova, Natalia Yurievna Pshenichnaya   +4 more
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Hybrid and/or mixed infection by pig and human Ascaris in a Guarani indigenous village in southern Brazil.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
BackgroundAscaris lumbricoides and Ascaris suum are nematode parasites that infect millions of people and pigs worldwide, respectively. Reports of cross-infection and hybridization between the two species has stimulated molecular epidemiological studies ...
Veridiana Lenartovicz Boeira, Renata Coltro Bezagio, Marina Silva de Carvalho, Rinaldo Ferreira Gandra, Ana Paula de Abreu, Cristiano Lara Massara, Cristiane Maria Colli, Max Jean de Ornelas Toledo   +7 more
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Aspectos imunológicos na infecção por Ascaris lumbricoides [PDF]

, 2014
Dissertação para obtenção do grau de Mestre no Instituto Superior de Ciências da Saúde Egas MonizAscaris lumbricoides é um parasita, geo-helminta, a sua prevalência é maior em zonas quentes e húmidas, em que as condições de saneamento e higiene são ...
Vaz, Ana Catarina Rodrigues Lopes
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Ammonia based sanitation technology [PDF]

, 2007
Water-borne sanitation of toilet waste is not a viable option for the estimated 2.6 billion people that lack improved sanitation throughout the world.
Nordin, Annika
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Anthropometric indices in individuals infected with ascaris lumbericoids in Iran [PDF]

, 2009
Context: Ascaris Lumbericoids infection is more common in children and teenagers and in areas with poor sanitation or crowded living conditions.
Najafi, M., Rajaei, S., Roshandel, G., Sardarian, K.H., Taherkhani, H., Vahidinia, A.   +5 more
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Environmental determinants of total IgE among school children living in the rural Tropics: importance of geohelminth infections and effect of anthelmintic treatment [PDF]

, 2008
Background: The environmental factors that determine the elevated levels of polyclonal IgE observed in populations living in the Tropics are poorly understood but may include geohelminth infections.
Ana-Lucia Moncayo, George E Griffin, Maritza G Vaca, Martha E Chico, Neal Alexander, Philip J Cooper, Susana M Benitez   +6 more
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