A. lumbricoides
The presence of serum anti-Ascaris lumbricoides IgE antibodies and of Trichuris trichiura infection are risk factors for wheezing and/or atopy in preschool-aged Brazilian children
... findings is that high worm burden and chronic hel- minthic infections would lead to the production of immunoregulatory cytokines and to protection against atopy and asthma, while low worm burden or recent infection would ...
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Sources of variability in the measurement of Ascaris lumbricoides infection intensity by Kato Katz and qPCR
... A. lumbricoides egg-positive slides be- cause that many independent readings by different readers were not available in the main survey dataset used for the ...
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Prevalence and risk factors of Ascaris lumbricoides (Linnaeus, 1758), Trichuris trichiura (Linnaeus, 1771) and HBV infections in Southwestern China: a community based cross sectional study
... We found no significant differences between gender, occupation, race, education or household income and HBV, A. lumbricoides and T. trichiura . First of all, restricted to the study field, 96.8 % of the study ...
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Amino Acid Determination of the Dominant Protein Isolated from Fertilized, Corticated Ascaris lumbricoides Egg
... Figures 7 and 8 are chromatogram of the samples for Trial 1 and Trial 2. After comparison of these chromatograms to that of the blank, Components 1 and 34 were identified as the content of the sample. The specific ...
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Ascaris lumbricoides β carbonic anhydrase: a potential target enzyme for treatment of ascariasis
... A. lumbricoides, mainly in Southeast Asia ...A. lumbricoides worm can produce 240,000 eggs daily, which pass within feces to the environment to begin the cycle ...
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Identification of human intestinal parasites affecting an asymptomatic peri urban Argentinian population using multi parallel quantitative real time polymerase chain reaction
... Results from this study also showed that qPCR is able to detect multiple parasite species at a higher rate than microscopy. The overwhelming majority of the study population tested positive for at least two different ...
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A Single Dose of Oral BCG Moreau Fails to Boost Systemic IFN-γ Responses to Tuberculin in Children in the Rural Tropics: Evidence for a Barrier to Mucosal Immunization.
... The study was designed as a pilot study to provide data that could be used to design an adequately powered randomized intervention study. The sample size was, therefore, small and we had limited power to detect ...
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Epidemiological surveys of, and research on, soil transmitted helminths in Southeast Asia: a systematic review
... The goal set by the World Health Organization (WHO) for STH control by 2020 is to reduce morbidity from STH in preschool-aged (pre-SAC: 2-5 years) and school-aged children (SAC: 5-14 years) to a level below which it ...
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Are Ascaris lumbricoides and Ascaris suum a single species?
... Mitochondrial markers in modern parasite samples from humans and pigs from Brazil, collected in rural and urban areas, as well as in American Native Indian communities, were analyzed. All samples were collected from ...
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Association of community sanitation usage with soil transmitted helminth infections among school aged children in Amhara Region, Ethiopia
... quality concerns (Fig. 1). The methods and results of these surveys have been described previously [13–15]. Briefly, surveys used a multi-stage cluster random sampling methodology and were powered to estimate zonal prev- ...
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The dynamics of Ascaris lumbricoides infections
... A. lumbricoides rarely causes death, but can lead to chronic disability, leading to poor physical and cognitive development and school achievement (Bethony et ...
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Ascaris and ascariasis
... While the majority of infections are asymptomatic, an estimated 8-15% (120-220 million cases) of those infected with A. lumbricoides demonstrate associated morbidity [3, 43]. The manifestations of ascariasis can ...
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Respiratory Arrest From Ascaris lumbricoides
... obstruction. Fiber-optic bronchoscopy revealed the near-total occlusion at the end of the endotracheal tube by an A lumbricoides, seemingly coiled on it- self. The 22-cm roundworm was immo- tile and was extracted ...
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The public health importance of Ascaris lumbricoides
... Ascaris lumbricoides is a remarkably infectious and persistent parasite that infects a quarter of the world’s population (Pawlowski & Arfaa, 1984 ; Crompton, ...A. lumbricoides in- fection amounts to ...
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Efficacy of Albendazole in Reducing Fecal Egg Counts of Soil Transmitted Helminths in School Children.
... Soil transmitted helminths (STH) are a group of intestinal nematodes whose infective forms undergo development in the soil, and cause infection in humans when they come in contact with the contaminated soil. Ascaris ...
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Ascaris lumbricoides: To Expect the Unexpected during a Routine Colonoscopy
... Humans are the definitive host for A. lumbricoides infection, and feco-oral transmission of embryonated eggs remains the main mode of transmission. A female A. lum- bricoides living in the small intestine lays ...
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Patterns of geohelminth infection, impact of albendazole treatment and re infection after treatment in schoolchildren from rural KwaZulu Natal/South Africa
... The markedly higher re-infection with hookworm during the 18 weeks after the second treatment when compared to the 16 weeks after the first treatment is most likely only partly due to the slightly longer re-infection ...
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Plasma cytokines, chemokines and cellular immune responses in pre school Nigerian children infected with Plasmodium falciparum
... Methods: Blood was obtained from 231 children (aged 39 – 73 months) who were classified according to mean P. falciparum density per μ l of blood (uninfected (n = 89), low density (<1,000, n = 51), medium density ...
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... In our sample, 21 pregnant women (22.83%) in the third trimester of the 92 women who provided stool samples were shown to have intestinal helminth infection. Among the infected women, 20 were infected by only Ascaris ...
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Prevalence and Intensity of Gastro-Intestinal Helminthiasis Among School Age Children in Nkondjock, Littoral-Cameroon
... Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura and Hookworm is comparable with previous reports of some studies in several countries “[21], ...Ascaris lumbricoides eggs are very resistant to harsh environmental ...
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