Infections are found worldwide both in developing countries and the industrialized world. Intestinal protozoa are most prevalent in the developing world, where they are responsible for substantial ...

Climate change and irregular monsoons have disrupted animal breeding cycles and led to a surge in health issues for domestic ...

To avoid contracting infections from their schools’ toilets, some pupils told our correspondent that they often hold back ...

But in the immunosuppressed, it can cause a deadly hyperinfection syndrome, with the worms going through accelerating and ...

After entering the host, intracellular pathogens need to recognize and exploit host‐cell resources for their own benefit. Although this might seem obvious, the importance of a detailed understanding ...

The mad cow-like disease reported in Oregon is called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), named for two German doctors who first described the condition in the 1920s. The disease impacts around 1 to ...

Mixed-infection of antibiotic susceptible and resistant Helicobacter pylori isolates in a single patient and underestimation of antimicrobial susceptibility testing. Helicobacter. 2003;8:202-6. 29 Sun ...

The effects of T. mu were mixed; the immune changes in the lungs that were triggered by T. mu appear to protect against respiratory infections while worsening the airway inflammation seen allergic ...

The term "parasite” includes protozoa (parasites consisting of only one cell) and worms (parasites that are larger and have many cells). Examples of parasitic infections are malaria, tapeworm ...

C-reactive protein (CRP) testing can quickly determine whether respiratory infections are probably self-limiting, ruling out the need for antibiotics at all. Point-of-care testing in primary care ...

The frequency of E. histolytica infection of healthy American students on a single stool examination was 4 per cent, and the total prevalence of protozoan infection was 25 per cent.

The most frequent triple infection was CPV-2, Giardia sp. and Cryptosporidium spp. (6.6%). Our results shown that single and mixed infections are associated with severe enteritis in dogs in southern ...