Ibrahim A Khalil, Christopher Troeger, Puja C Rao, Brigette F. Blacker et al.
BACKGROUND: The protozoan Cryptosporidium is a leading cause of diarrhoea morbidity and mortality in children younger than 5 years. However, the true global burden of Cryptosporidium infection in children younger than 5 years might have been underestimated in previous quantifications because it only...
William Ellis
Leptospirosis is a global disease of animals, which can have a major economic impact on livestock industries and is an important zoonosis. The current knowledge base is heavily biased towards the developed agricultural economies. The disease situation in the developing economies presents a major cha...
Samba O. Sow, Khitam Muhsen, Dilruba Nasrin, William C. Blackwelder et al.
BACKGROUND: The importance of Cryptosporidium as a pediatric enteropathogen in developing countries is recognized. METHODS: Data from the Global Enteric Multicenter Study (GEMS), a 3-year, 7-site, case-control study of moderate-to-severe diarrhea (MSD) and GEMS-1A (1-year study of MSD and less-sever...
Motohiro Iseki, Ibne Karim M. Ali, Momammad B. Hossain, Viqar Zaman et al.
Since the genotype of human Blastocystis hominis isolates is highly polymorphic, PCR-based genotype classification using known sequenced-tagged site (STS) primers would allow the identification or classification of different genotypes. Five populations of human B. hominis isolates obtained from Japa...
T El-Khoby, N Galal, A Fenwick, Rashida Barakat et al.
Health questionnaires and parasitologic examinations of urine and stool were evaluated from a stratified random sample of 89,180 individuals from 17,172 households in 251 rural communities in 9 governorates of Egypt to investigate the prevalence of, risk factors for, and changing pattern of infectio...
Rashidul Haque, Shantanu Roy, Mamun Kabir, Suzanne Stroup et al.
Giardia lamblia is the most prevalent human intestinal protozoan worldwide, but only a minority of infections result in diarrhea. We tested here whether the 2 major G. lamblia genotypes, assemblages A and B, differ in their propensity to cause disease. To determine whether an association exists betw...
Elizabeth T. Rogawski McQuade, Luther A. Bartelt, James A Platts-Mills, Jessica C. Seidman et al.
BACKGROUND.: Giardia are among the most common enteropathogens detected in children in low-resource settings. We describe here the epidemiology of infection with Giardia in the first 2 years of life in the Etiology, Risk Factors, and Interactions of Enteric Infections and Malnutrition and the Conseq...
Rashidul Haque, Dinesh Mondal, Anwarul Karim, Imarot Hossain Molla et al.
BACKGROUND: The parasitic causes of diarrhea have historically been identified by use of microscopy; however, the use of this technique does not allow one to distinguish between subspecies or genotypes of parasites. Our objective was to determine, by use of modern diagnostic methods, the proportion ...
Junqiang Li, Zhenzhen Wang, Md Robiul Karim, Longxian Zhang
Diarrheal diseases caused by intestinal protozoan parasites are a major food-borne public health problem across the world. Vegetables and fruits provide important nutrients and minerals, but are also common sources of some food-borne human pathogenic microorganisms. The contamination of raw vegetabl...
Susana Vaz Nery, Amy J. Pickering, Ebba Abate, Abraham Asmare et al.
The transmission soil transmitted helminths (STH) occurs via ingestion of or contact with infective stages present in soil contaminated with human faeces. It follows therefore that efforts to reduce faecal contamination of the environment should help to reduce risk of parasite exposure and improveme...
Regina C. LaRocque, Robert F. Breiman, Mary D. Ari, Roger E. Morey et al.
We collected acute-phase serum samples from febrile patients at 2 major hospitals in Dhaka, Bangladesh, during an outbreak of dengue fever in 2001. A total of 18% of dengue-negative patients tested positive for leptospirosis. The case-fatality rate among leptospirosis patients (5%) was higher than a...
Md Robiul Karim, Rongjun Wang, Haiju Dong, Longxian Zhang et al.
Enterocytozoon bieneusi is an important zoonotic pathogen. To assess the human-infective potential of E. bieneusi in nonhuman primates (NHPs), we examined the prevalence and genotype distribution of E. bieneusi in 23 NHP species by PCR and sequence analysis of the ribosomal internal transcribed spac...
Shurong Dong, Ya Yang, Yingjian Wang, Dongjian Yang et al.
BACKGROUND: Cryptosporidium is a protozoan parasite that can infect both humans and animals and cause cryptosporidiosis. We aimed to estimate the global prevalence of Cryptosporidium infection. METHODS: In this study, Web of Science, Medline and PubMed were searched for relative articles, published ...
Babul Chandra Roy, Agustín Estrada‐Peña, Jürgen Krücken, Abdul Rehman et al.
Ticks of the Boophilus subgenus, classified in the genus Rhipicephalus, are widespread in subtropical and tropical regions, but knowledge on their distribution in Asia is fragmentary. The most important representatives belong to the Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus complex, which is composed of s...
Roberta M. O’Connor, Rehaan Shaffie, Gagandeep Kang, Honorine Ward
Introduction Cryptosporidium spp. are intestinal protozoan parasites of the phylum Apicomplexa, which cause diarrheal disease in humans worldwide (reviewed in [1–6]). In immunocompetent individuals, infection with this parasite may be asymptomatic or cause a self-limiting diarrheal illness. However,...