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Niger J Clin Pract 2019 Feb;22(2):270-275

Department of Pathology, Erzincan University, Faculty of Medicine, Erzincan, Turkey.

Background: Parasitic infestation of the appendix is uncommon. Parasitic infections can cause inflammation in the appendix and can imitate acute appendicitis clinically. Enterobius vermicularis and Taenia species are among the most common parasitic agents causing acute appendicitis. Read More

J Laparoendosc Adv Surg Tech A 2019 Feb 5. Epub 2019 Feb 5.

2 Division of Pediatric Surgery, Children's National Health System, Washington, District of Columbia.

Enterobius vermicularis associated appendiceal colic and acute appendicitis are rarely encountered in the United States. The 9-year-old patient described in this case presented with right lower quadrant abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting consistent with acute appendicitis and was brought to the operating room for an appendectomy. Intraoperatively a pinworm, E. Read More

Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 2019 Feb 2. Epub 2019 Feb 2.

MVZ Labor 28, Mecklenburgische Str. 28, 14197, Berlin, Germany.

The pinworm (Enterobius vermicularis) causes mostly mild infections characterised by nocturnal anal pruritus, mainly in children. Still, the infection is stigmatising and sleep disturbances may lead to lack of concentration. For Germany, no epidemiological data are available. Read More

J Parasitol Res 2018 26;2018:3048795. Epub 2018 Dec 26.

Department of Biological Science, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431, USA.

populations are diminishing throughout their range due to urbanization, fragmentation, and poor habitat management. Increased population densities, poor habitat quality, and lack of fire may influence disease transmission. Parasite roles within wild tortoise populations are largely unknown; despite evidence these pathogens may pose significant health risks. Read More

J Pediatr Surg 2018 Dec 28. Epub 2018 Dec 28.

Department of Surgery, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra Northwell, Cohen Children's Medical Center, 269-1 76th Ave, Queens, NY 11040, United States.

Introduction: Negative appendectomy rate (NAR) is a quality metric used in the surgical management of appendicitis. The rates of negative appendectomy (NA) in children range anywhere from 1% to 40% in the literature. Many reports do not provide clear pathological definitions for either appendicitis or NA on which they base their calculation of NAR. Read More

Zootaxa 2018 Dec 14;4531(4):567-577. Epub 2018 Dec 14.

Department of Zoology, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio 43015, USA..

Thelastomatoid nematodes from the hindguts of several species of insects were collected in 4 localities in Mississippi, U.S.A. Read More

J Parasitol Res 2018 29;2018:2613484. Epub 2018 Nov 29.

Department of Clinical Medicine, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, P.O. Box 62000, Nairobi, Kenya.

Geohelminthiasis and malaria coinfections in pregnancy are common in sub-Saharan Africa. The consequences of the disease combination on maternal health and birth outcomes are poorly understood. For a better understanding of this coinfection in expectant mothers, a cross-sectional study was carried out to evaluate the effect of the coinfection on maternal health and birth outcomes in expectant mothers in Bungoma County, Kenya. Read More

World J Clin Pediatr 2018 Oct 25;7(4):89-104. Epub 2018 Oct 25.

2 Department of Pediatrics, "Iuliu Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Emergency Hospital for Children, Cluj-Napoca 400177, Romania.

Perianal infectious dermatitis (PID) represents a superficial inflammation of the perianal skin, which is of bacterial origin (classically, ). This narrative review aims to critically review and summarize the available scientific literature regarding pediatric PID, being the first of its kind, to the best of the author's knowledge. It also reports the first cases of Romanian children with PID. Read More

Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 2019 Jan 9. Epub 2019 Jan 9.

Department of Parasitology and Mycology, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran.

Background: Co-infection of human tuberculosis (TB) and intestinal parasites infections (IPIs) is a public health problem, especially in low- and middle-income countries. There is no data on this issue in Iran. Therefore, we investigated the prevalence of IPIs among patients with TB in Iran. Read More

Int J Parasitol Parasites Wildl 2019 Apr 2;8:25-32. Epub 2018 Dec 2.

Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Inuyama, Japan.

is the only pinworm species known to infect strepsirrhine primates outside Africa, and the only pinworm species yet described in slow lorises. Here, we provided a detailed morphological comparison of female and male worms, and a first description of fourth-stage larvae collected from free-living slow lorises () in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. Using mitochondrial and nuclear markers, we also reconstructed the species' phylogenetic relationship with other pinworms infecting primates. Read More

Zhongguo Xue Xi Chong Bing Fang Zhi Za Zhi 2018 Oct;30(5):518-522

National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention; Key Laboratory of Parasites and Vector Biology, National Health Commission; WHO Collaborating Center for Tropical Diseases; National Center for International Research on Tropical Diseases, Ministry of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200025, China.

Objective: To understand the professional theory, prevention and control practice, experimental diagnosis and other technical skills of parasitic diseases among technicians of all levels of disease control and prevention institutions, so as to provide the evidence for strengthening the capacity building of Chinese professional personnel.

Methods: According to the method of recommendation at all levels, the subjects from disease control and prevention institutions at province, prefecture or county levels were chosen to assess the theory of parasitic diseases and test operation skills by using the method of answering the questions together with on-site operations in China. A database was built consisting of subjects' basic information and assessment scores. Read More

FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2019 Feb;95(2)

School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1-W3-48 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan.

Cockroaches generally harbor thelastomatid nematodes (pinworms) in their gut. In this study, we discovered that the surfaces of two undescribed thelastomatid species in the hindgut of the wood-feeding cockroach Panesthia angustipennis were consistently and densely colonized by bacteria. Epifluorescence microscopy using 4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole and transmission electron microscopy revealed that several distinct morphotypes of bacteria covered almost the entire body surface of the nematodes in single or multiple layers. Read More

J Parasit Dis 2018 Dec 29;42(4):608-615. Epub 2018 Oct 29.

3Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Saket Nagar, Bhopal, MP 462024 India.

Detection of urinary parasites is relatively rare and incidental finding in routine urine examination. Common urinary parasitic infections as described in literature include Trichomonas, and Microfilaria. is known to cause vaginitis and urethritis, and may be found in urine sediments. Read More

Zootaxa 2018 Nov 5;4514(1):65-76. Epub 2018 Nov 5.

Department of Biomedicine / Department of Infectious Disease Control, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Hasama, Yufu, Oita 879-5593, Japan..

A new pinworm species, Enterobius (Colobenterobius) emodensis sp. n. (Nematoda: Oxyuridae) is described from the Central Himalayan langur, Semnopithecus schistaceus, in Mandal Valley, Chamoli District, Uttarakhand, India, based on mature and immature adults and fourth-stage larvae. Read More

Infect Genet Evol 2019 Jan 17;67:159-166. Epub 2018 Nov 17.

Key Laboratory of Animal Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Hebei Province, College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal University, 050024 Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, PR China. Electronic address:

Pinworms are important parasitic nematodes in animals and humans, and many species are of medical and veterinary importance. The genus Syphabulea is a poorly known group of pinworms. The systematic position of Syphabulea in Oxyuridae remains unclear. Read More

J Nematol 2018 Sep 3;50(2):117-132. Epub 2018 Sep 3.

Parasitology Institute, Düsseldorf University, Düsseldorf, Germany.

Aspiculuris tetraptera is a heteroxynematid nematoda infecting most of the laboratory animals, occasionally mice which represent the mostly used animal for biological, medical, and pharmacological studies. The present study aimed to investigate the prevalence of nematode parasites infection in the laboratory mice Mus musculus in Egypt. Morphologically, this oxyurid possessed four distinct cephalic papillae on a cephalic plate, with three small rudimental lips carrying two sessile poorly developed labial papillae and one pair of amphidial pores. Read More

J Helminthol 2018 Oct 29:1-5. Epub 2018 Oct 29.

Department of Parasitology,Faculty of Medicine,Khon Kaen University,Khon Kaen,Thailand.

Enterobiasis, caused by the nematode Enterobius vermicularis, is a common health problem among schoolchildren in Thailand. We provide the first molecular identification of this nematode from Thai schoolchildren and document genetic variation among E. vermicularis eggs using sequence analyses of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (cox1) gene and the nuclear ribosomal DNA second internal transcribed spacer (ITS2). Read More

Zhongguo Xue Xi Chong Bing Fang Zhi Za Zhi 2018 May;30(4):449-451

Jiangxi Provincial Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Nanchang 330096, China.

Objective: To know the status of infection in children in Jiangxi Province in 2014, so as to provide the evidence for the formulation of prevention and control measures.

Methods: A survey was performed according to the scheme of the 3rd Principal Human Parasites of Jiangxi Province in 2014. Based on the ecological regions, a stratified cluster sampling method was applied by the economic and geographic situation. Read More

Clin Lab 2018 Oct;64(10):1773-1776

Background: Rhabditis (Rhabditellae) axei is a common species in soil, which has been reported repeatedly in human urine and the digestive system. Humans exposed to sewage or mistakenly polluted sewage is the cause of larvae infecting the digestive tract or via the urethra. We reported a patient infected with Rhabditis axei and Enterobius Vermicularis. Read More

Parasitology 2018 Oct 16:1-7. Epub 2018 Oct 16.

Departamento de Zoología,Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,Mexico City,Mexico.

Patterns of genetic variation among populations can reveal the evolutionary history of species. Pinworm parasites are highly host specific and form strong co-evolutionary associations with their primate hosts. Here, we describe the genetic variation observed in four Trypanoxyuris species infecting different howler and spider monkey subspecies in Central America to determine if historical dispersal processes and speciation in the host could explain the genetic patterns observed in the parasites. Read More

Clin Pediatr (Phila) 2019 Jan 3;58(1):13-16. Epub 2018 Oct 3.

1 Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, HI, USA.

Enterobius vermicularis, the common pinworm, is well known in North America as a parasitic infection, mainly affecting children. It is a very contagious organism, and it is responsible for a high number of infections in the United States each year. A rise in eosinophilia is linked to most parasitic infections. Read More

Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin 2018 Sep 28. Epub 2018 Sep 28.

Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Principado de Asturias (ISPA), Oviedo, Spain. Electronic address:

Introduction: The characteristics of D. fragilis infection are described, with special focus on the clinical and epidemiological aspects.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective and descriptive study was performed, including all the patients with Dientamoeba fragilis infection who attended a specialized unit between January 2012 and December 2017. Read More

Exp Parasitol 2019 Jan 17;196:63-67. Epub 2018 Sep 17.

Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Gazi University, Etiler 6330, Ankara, Turkey. Electronic address:

Polygonum cognatum Meissn. (Polygonaceae) is a wild edible plant known locally as "solucanotu, madimak" in Turkey and it has been used for various purposes, such as diuretic and antidiabetic, as well to treat oxyuris and worms internally in humans. The present study was carried out to investigate the anthelmintic activity of various extracts were obtained from the aerial parts of P. Read More

Vet Pathol 2018 Sep 16:300985818798106. Epub 2018 Sep 16.

1 Comparative Pathology Laboratory, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.

Beginning in 2015, athymic nude sentinel mice from conventional, medium-, and high-security facilities presented to the Comparative Pathology Laboratory (CPL) with weight loss, diarrhea, and/or rectal prolapse. Regardless of whether clinical signs were present or absent, the gross observation of ceco-colonic thickening corresponded histologically to pleocellular typhlocolitis with mucosal hyperplasia and lamina proprial multinucleated cells. A subset of affected sentinels exhibited granulomatous serositis and hepatosplenic necrosis with multinucleated cells. Read More

BMC Public Health 2018 Sep 14;18(1):1118. Epub 2018 Sep 14.

Nopphitam Hospital, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand.

Background: Soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections are among the most common type of infections worldwide and are widely distributed in tropical areas. In rural areas of southern Thailand where most land is used for agriculture, children are at risk of acquiring parasites, especially STHs. Assessing the current situation regarding parasitic infection in these areas is a prerequisite for developing appropriate control measures. Read More

J Microbiol Immunol Infect 2018 Dec 25;51(6):858-859. Epub 2018 Aug 25.

Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Parasitology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Medical Research, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan; China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan.

J Dermatol 2018 Sep 6. Epub 2018 Sep 6.

Department of Dermatology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.

BMC Res Notes 2018 Aug 29;11(1):621. Epub 2018 Aug 29.

Department of Histopathology and Cytology, Faculty of Medical Laboratory Sciences, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan.

Objectives: Renal transplantation procedure markedly increased over the past few decades. The risk of harboring parasitic diseases may affect transplant recipients during life expectancy. We aimed in this study to determine the enteroparasitosis frequency among renal transplant recipients in Khartoum state, Sudan. Read More

Mymensingh Med J 2018 Jul;27(3):440-444

Dr Anuwarul Azim, PG (M Phil) Student, Department of Microbiology, Mymensingh Medical College (MMC), Bangladesh; E-mail:

Uncooked vegetables are an important part of a healthy diet in different parts of the world. The present descriptive cross sectional type of study was carried out to determine the parasitological contamination of vegetables sold at markets of Mymensingh city of Bangladesh. Parasitological examinations were performed in material derived from 200 specimens of 10 different vegetables to detect intestinal parasites in the department of Microbiology, Mymensingh Medical College, Mymensingh, Bangladesh from July 2015 to July 2016. Read More

BMC Res Notes 2018 Aug 20;11(1):603. Epub 2018 Aug 20.

Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Bangkok, Thailand.

Objectives: We investigated the prevalence and risk factors for Enterobius vermicularis in children at the Thaklong Municipal Early Childhood Development Center (TMECDC), and the Rangsit Babies' Home (RBH) in Pathum Thani, Thailand using the Scotch tape method.

Results: 397 children aged 3-6 years were sampled (male = 198); 31 (7.8%) were E. Read More

Acta Trop 2018 Nov 17;187:248-256. Epub 2018 Aug 17.

Department of Environmental and Global Health, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA; Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA.

Objective: Intestinal parasitoses, especially in the less favored populations of tropical and subtropical areas, are a scourge of high impact in public health. We conducted a cross-sectional survey to investigate the prevalence of helminths and protozoa pathogens, malnutrition, and their determinants in children from indigenous Mbyá Guaraní villages of Iguazú, in the subtropical Atlantic Forest of Argentina.

Methods: Parasitological assessment was performed using a combination of flotation, sedimentation, and centrifugation techniques, as well as temporal and permanent stains. Read More

Am Nat 2018 Sep 11;192(3):E106-E119. Epub 2018 Jul 11.

Parasitism is a common symbiotic interaction across diverse natural systems. Using a comparative evolutionary approach, we investigated the contributions of both host phylogeny and abiotic factors toward diversification of phylogenetically independent endoparasites that inhabit essentially the same physical space. We tested for host-parasite and parasite-parasite phylogenetic concordance in western North American chipmunks (Rodentia: Sciuridae) and two distantly related species of pinworms (Nematoda: Oxyurida). Read More

J Arthropod Borne Dis 2018 Jun 13;12(2):141-151. Epub 2018 Jun 13.

Department of Zoology, University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos, Nigeria.

Background: Domiciliary cockroaches are obnoxious pests of significant medical importance. We investigated the prevalence of human intestinal parasites in cockroaches and its attendant public health importance.

Methods: Overall, 749 cockroaches (, 509, , 240) caught by trapping from 120 households comprising 3 different housing types in Somolu, Lagos metropolis, southwest Nigeria, in 2015 were screened for human intestinal parasites using standard parasitological techniques. Read More

Parasitol Res 2018 Nov 18;117(11):3567-3573. Epub 2018 Aug 18.

Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores (CEPAVE-CONICET-UNLP), La Plata, Argentina.

The aim of this study was to compare formalin-ethyl acetate concentration and FLOTAC Pellet techniques for the diagnosis of intestinal parasites in human stool samples. The anal swab method was used for the specific detection of Enterobius vermicularis. The study was performed in children and youth from Puerto Madryn (South Argentina). Read More

Parasite Immunol 2018 Nov 30;40(11):e12583. Epub 2018 Sep 30.

Pulmonology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt.

Aim: This study aimed at investigating the presence of intestinal parasitic infections in inflammatory respiratory diseases patients during the disease attack, and measuring the acidic mammalian chitinase (AMCase) gene expression in blood before and after infection eradication.

Methodology: This case-control study included 123 inflammatory respiratory diseases patients and 120 apparently healthy individuals. Repeated stool examination was done, while total and specific IgE were measured. Read More

Res Rep Trop Med 2017 1;8:59-63. Epub 2017 Jun 1.

Department of Biological Sciences,

Background: Intestinal parasites' eggs, larvae, or cysts can be carried in public transport buses, and contribute to the increased incidence of diseases. This study aimed to detect biological forms of intestinal parasites in samples from public buses in the town of Diamantina, Minas Gerais, in order to know the local situation and propose interventions to improve public health.

Materials And Methods: In November 2014, six samples were obtained in buses of the two stations by using Graham method, in duplicate, by affixing a 6×5 cm clear tape, six times on each collection site of the bus, in an area of ~30 cm. Read More

Int J Surg Pathol 2018 Jul 1:1066896918784650. Epub 2018 Jul 1.

4 Bezmialem Vakif University, Faculty of Medicine, Turkey.

Background: In this study, we retrospectively evaluated cases of patients who had undergone appendectomy in our hospital and aimed to present the efficiency of diagnostic tests and demographic data of cases. Pathological reports were analyzed for the following parameters: age, gender, and pathological diagnosis. In addition, the demographic and clinicopathologic characteristics of patients with unusual histopathologic findings were evaluated in detail, and reanalysis of archived resected appendix specimens was carried out. Read More

Mult Scler Relat Disord 2018 Aug 4;24:157-174. Epub 2018 Jul 4.

School of Medicine, University of Glasgow, UK.

Multiple Sclerosis is a chronic, progressive and debilitating neurological disease which, despite extensive study for over 100 years, remains of enigmatic aetiology. Drawn from the epidemiological evidence, there exists a consensus that there are environmental (possibly infectious) factors that contribute to disease pathogenesis that have not yet been fully elucidated. Here we propose a three-tiered hypothesis: 1) a clinic-epidemiological model of multiple sclerosis as a rare late complication of two sequential infections (with the temporal sequence of infections being important); 2) a proposal that the first event is helminthic infection with Enterobius Vermicularis, and the second is Epstein Barr Virus infection; and 3) a proposal for a testable biological mechanism, involving T-Cell exhaustion for Epstein-Barr Virus protein LMP2A. Read More

Int J Parasitol Parasites Wildl 2017 Dec 20;6(3):320-329. Epub 2017 Sep 20.

Institute for Parasitology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Buenteweg 17, 30559 Hannover, Germany.

Non-human primates of South-East Asia remain under-studied concerning parasite epidemiology and co-infection patterns. Simultaneously, efforts in conservation demand knowledge of parasite abundance and biodiversity in threatened species. The Endangered proboscis monkey, , a primate flagship species for conservation in Borneo, was investigated in the present study. Read More

J Environ Public Health 2018 10;2018:4929805. Epub 2018 Jun 10.

Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, SAITM, Malabe, Sri Lanka.

A descriptive cross-sectional school based study was carried out to investigate the prevalence of soil-transmitted intestinal helminths and the associated factors among school children in Kaduwela Medical Officer of Health (MOH) area in the Colombo district, which was affected by floods in 2016. The study was conducted in 9 selected schools in Kaduwela MOH area from September 2016 to March 2017. Permission was obtained from the relevant authorities. Read More

Environ Health Prev Med 2018 Jun 22;23(1):26. Epub 2018 Jun 22.

Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety, Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia.

Background: Intestinal parasites are a common problem in the world. The greater proportion of infections is associated with poor water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH). This study was conducted to assess intestinal parasites, WASH condition, and their association in rural Dembiya, northwest Ethiopia. Read More

Trop Parasitol 2018 Jan-Jun;8(1):53-55. Epub 2018 May 28.

Department of Pathology, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India.

(EV), an intestinal nematode, causes lesions at ectopic sites also. Although lesions are fully curable with antihelminthic drugs, patients may require surgical intervention in clinically unsuspected cases to arrive at correct diagnosis and appropriate treatment. Accurate diagnosis of these lesions on fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) has an advantage of avoiding unwanted surgery. Read More

Rev Fac Cien Med Univ Nac Cordoba 2017 09 8;74(3):277-280. Epub 2017 Sep 8.

Cátedra de Patología FCM. UNC.

Sixty-five cases of enterobiasis of the cecal appendix are reported by Enterobius vermicularis or Oxiurus vermicularis. Enterobiasis is a cosmopolitan parasite5,8,13 and frequent. It is useful to establish whether it can cause appendicitis and the mechanisms involved. Read More

Minerva Med 2018 Dec 31;109(6):498-500. Epub 2018 May 31.

Unit of Microbiology and Virology, Hospital of Padua, Padua, Italy.

Wiad Lek 2018;71(3 pt 2):674-677

Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, Lviv, Ukraine, Lviv Municipal Centre For Family Planning And Human Reproduction, Lviv, Ukraine.

Objective: The aim: The purpose of this study is to analyze the frequency and structure of parasitic lesion in women with reproductive health disorders.

Patients And Methods: Materials and methods: The immune-enzyme method tested immunoglobulins IgG to ascaris, lamblia, toxocara. Determination of the presence of pinworm eggs (sticky tape and perianal scrape method) and ascarid (methods of K. Read More

Sci Rep 2018 May 17;8(1):7787. Epub 2018 May 17.

Instituto de Biotecnología, Grupo de Bioquímica y Parasitología Molecular, Departamento de Parasitología, Universidad de Granada, Campus Universitario Fuentenueva, 18071, Granada, Spain.

Previous studies have established that an increased Th-9 response creates a hostile environment for nematode parasites. Given that IL-23, a cytokine required for maintenance of the IL-17-secreting phenotype, has inhibitory effects on IL-9 production, we hypothesized that reducing circulating IL-23 by treatment with anti-IL-23 antibodies would reduce the establishment and development of parasitic intestinal nematodes. In this study, we show that animals treated with anti-IL-23 monoclonal antibodies showed a drastic reduction in the number of mouse pinworms (Aspiculuris tetraptera) recovered from the intestine (p < 0. Read More

Zhongguo Xue Xi Chong Bing Fang Zhi Za Zhi 2018 Feb;30(2):208-210

Heifei Institute of Endemic Diseases, Anhui Province, Hefei 238000, China.

Objective: To analyze the surveillance results of soil-borne nematodiasis in Hefei City from 2012 to 2015, so as to provide the evidence formulating the Hefei "Thirteen-five" parasitic disease prevention strategy.

Methods: The population in monitoring points in Changfeng County, Lujiang City and Chaohu County were investigated for , and hookworm infections with Kato-Katz technique every year from 2012 to 2015, and the children aged less than 6 years were checked for infection by using the cellophane tape method.

Results: A total of 12 496 people were investigated from 2012 to 2015, the number of infections was 84, and among them, the number of hookworm infection was the most (70 cases) and the number of was the least (3 cases). Read More

Zhongguo Xue Xi Chong Bing Fang Zhi Za Zhi 2018 Mar;30(2):194-199

Chongqing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Chongqing 400042, China.

Objective: To investigate the epidemic of major human parasitic diseases in Chongqing City, so as to provide a reference for developing prevention and control strategies.

Methods: According to the unified methods formulated by the national investigation scheme and stratified cluster random sampling, 36 rural pilots and 50 urban pilots were selected in Chongqing City. The number of the objects investigated in individual pilot was defined over 250. Read More

Arch Iran Med 2018 Feb 1;21(2):67-72. Epub 2018 Feb 1.

Department of Pediatric Surgery, Hedi Chaker Hospital, 3029 Sfax, Tunisia.

Background: Enterobius vermicularis (EV) is the most common helminthic infection in the world. This small parasite is predominant in the pediatric population. The presence of EV in the appendix can cause or mimick appendicitis. Read More