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Frequency of intestinal parasites in patients attended at a university hospital in Maceió, state of Alagoas, Brazil

Bioscience Journal, 2020
The aim of this study was to analyze the parasitological tests of a population at a public hospital in Maceió-AL. A descriptive study was made between January and July of 2015 analyzing the parasitological tests of a population at a public hospital in ...
José Rayron Oliveira de Araújo, Ramon Manoel Sabino Cavalcante, Antônio de Pádua Medeiros de Carvalho Neto, Karwhory Wallas Lins da Silva, Sandra Regina Guimarães Silva, José Rodrigo da Silva Ferreira, Marília Gabriela dos Santos Cavalcanti, Thiago José Matos-Rocha   +7 more
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Factors associated with high prevalence of intestinal protozoan infections among patients in Sana'a City, Yemen. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
BACKGROUND: Intestinal protozoan diseases in Yemen are a significant health problem with prevalence ranging from 18% to 27%. The present study is a cross-sectional study aimed at determining the factors associated with the high prevalence of intestinal ...
Naelah A Alyousefi, Mohammed A K Mahdy, Rohela Mahmud, Yvonne A L Lim   +3 more
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Regulatory Functions of Hypoxia in Host–Parasite Interactions: A Focus on Enteric, Tissue, and Blood Protozoa

Microorganisms, 2023
Body tissues are subjected to various oxygenic gradients and fluctuations and hence can become transiently hypoxic. Hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) is the master transcriptional regulator of the cellular hypoxic response and is capable of modulating ...
Emily DeMichele, Olivia Sosnowski, Andre G. Buret, Thibault Allain   +3 more
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Mini-FLOTAC, an Innovative Direct Diagnostic Technique for Intestinal Parasitic Infections: Experience from the Field. [PDF]

, 2013
Soil-transmitted helminths and intestinal protozoa infection are widespread in developing countries, yet an accurate diagnosis is rarely performed.
Albonico, Marco, Barda, Beatrice Divina, Clementi, Massimo, Cringoli, Giuseppe, Ianniello, Davide, Rinaldi, Laura, Sadutshang, Tsetan, Salvo, Fulvio, Zepherine, Henry   +8 more
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Prevalence of protozoan parasitic infections in domestic dogs in Andhra Pradesh, India

Indian Journal of Animal Sciences, 2020
Faecal (2,250) and blood samples (1,350) of dogs received from Teaching Veterinary Clinical Complex (TVCC), Gannavaram, Veterinary Hospitals in and around Krishna district and nearby Krishna, Andhra Pradesh during last five years (January 2014 to ...
C SREEDEVI, CH. JYOTHISREE, J JAYALAKSHMI   +2 more
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Molecular Detection of Soil-Transmitted Helminths and Enteric Protozoa Infection in Children and Its Association with Household Water and Sanitation in Manhiça District, Southern Mozambique

Pathogens, 2021
Intestinal parasite infections can have detrimental health consequences in children. In Mozambique, soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections are controlled through mass drug administration since 2011, but no specific control program exists for enteric ...
Berta Grau-Pujol, Inocencia Cuamba, Chenjerai Jairoce, Anelsio Cossa, Juliana Da Silva, Charfudin Sacoor, Carlota Dobaño, Augusto Nhabomba, Rojelio Mejia, Jose Muñoz   +9 more
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Frequency of intestinal protozoan infections diagnosed in patients from a clinical analysis laboratory

Bioscience Journal, 2022
This study aimed to determine the frequency of infection by intestinal protozoa diagnosed in patients from a clinical analysis laboratory in Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil.
Tarciane Lilia dos Santos, Antônio de Pádua Medeiros de Carvalho Neto, José Rodrigo da Silva Ferreira, Paulo Victor Muniz Azevedo, Karwhory Wallas Lins da Silva, Cícera Maria Alencar dos Nascimento, Claudia Maria Lins Calheiros, Flaviana Santos Wanderley, Marília Gabriela dos Santos Cavalcanti, Mabel Alencar do Nascimento Rocha, Thiago José Matos- Rocha   +10 more
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Water- borne protozoan parasitic infections

Journal of the College of Community Physicians, 2002
Contamination of drinking water by human and animal excreta is a major public health problem the world over. A number of serious protozoan parasitic infections are transmitted to humans by way of contaminated drinking water.
J. S. Edirisinghe
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Epidemiology of parasitic protozoan infections in Soay sheep (Ovis aries L.) on St Kilda [PDF]

, 2006
The feral Soay sheep (Ovis aries L.) population on Hirta, St Kilda, is host to a diverse component parasite community, but previous parasitological studies of the population have only focussed on the metazoan species.
Craig, B. H., Kruuk, L. E. B., Pemberton, J. M., Pilkington, J. G.   +3 more
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Socio-demographic influences on the prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections among workers in Qatar

Parasites & Vectors, 2021
Background The rapid growth of Qatar in the last two decades has been associated with an enormous expansion of building programs in its cities and in the provision of new service industries.
Nadin Younes, Jerzy M. Behnke, Ahmed Ismail, Marawan A. Abu-Madi   +3 more
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