Post, R J Onyenwe, E Somiari, S A E Mafuyai, H B Crainey, J L Ubachukwu, P O
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Although approximately 40% of all the people blinded by Onchocerca volvulus are Nigerians, almost nothing was known about the various cytospecies of the blackfly vectors present in Nigeria until 1981. The activation of the Nigerian National Onchocerciasis Control Programme in 1986 (and that programme's initiation of mass distributions of ivermectin...
Molina, N Minvielle, M Grenóvero, S Salomón, C Basualdo, J
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The protozoan parasite most frequently associated with diarrhoea worldwide is Giardia intestinalis. In 2005, a study was initiated to identify the genotypes of this parasite infecting children in the Argentinian provinces of Buenos Aires, Mendoza and Chaco, and to explore the associations between the genotype detected in a child, the characteristic...
Jariwala, S Langman, Y Benson, A A Wolf, E Moss, J Zhu, C C Brandt, L
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Tanih, N F Ndip, L M Ndip, R N
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Helicobacter pylori has been incriminated in human diseases, such as peptic ulcer, gastritis and gastric malignancy. Although modern triple-drug regimens are usually highly effective in the treatment of H. pylori infection, the emergence of resistance to two of the most used antibiotics, metronidazole (Mtz) and clarithromycin (Cla), is a serious an...
Ghosh, J Lal, C S Pandey, K Das, V N R Das, P Roychoudhury, K Roy, S
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Sejdini, A Mahmud, R Lim, Y A L Mahdy, M Sejdini, F Gjoni, V Xhaferraj, K Kasmi, G
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Although intestinal parasitic infections (IPI) among children remain a global issue, the current information on such infections in Albanian children is very limited. A cross-sectional study of the IPI in 321 children living in the Albanian counties of Tirana (152) and Elbasan (169) was therefore conducted in 2008, with a pre-tested standard questio...
Truc, P Grébaut, P Lando, A Makiadi Donzoau, F Penchenier, L Herder, S Geiger, A Vatunga, G Josenando, T
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Mazumdar, S
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India is among the countries that are worse affected by human malaria, one of the major vector-borne diseases that continue to affect vast populations across the world. In a recent household survey in the Terai region of eastern India, the factors that might explain the occurrence and clustering of human malaria and the consequent healthcare-seekin...
Chou, P-H Lai, S-C
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Although the expression of matrix metalloproteinase-12 (MMP-12) appears to be increased in most inflammatory diseases, the role of this enzyme in the pathogenesis of toxoplasmosis in pregnant women, if any, is unknown. In a recent study in Taiwan, the serum concentrations of MMP-12 and its substrate elastin were evaluated in pregnant women with Tox...
Silva, C C Domingues, A L Lopes, E P Morais, C N Santos, R B Luna, C F Nader, H B Martins, J R
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Schistosomiasis mansoni is a fibrogenic liver disease that constitutes a major health problem in north-eastern Brazil. Although one common manifestation of the disease, periportal fibrosis (PPF), can be assessed by ultrasonography by well-trained physicians, the necessary equipment and personnel are not always readily available. Serum markers, incl...
