AMOEBIASIS and Ascariasis  

AMOEBIASIS  

Diagnosis, Diagnostics, Immunodiagnosis & Immunodiagnostics:

7793.Ali IK, Hossain MB, Roy S, Ayeh-Kumi PF, Petri WA Jr, Haque R, Clark CG. Entamoeba moshkovskii infections in children, Bangladesh. Emerg Infect Dis. 2003 May;9(5):580-4. 

7794.Haque R, Huston CD, Hughes M, Houpt E, Petri WA Jr. Amebiasis. N Engl J Med. 2003 Apr 17;348(16):1565-73. 

7795.Haseeb AN, el-Shazly AM, Arafa MA, Morsy AT. Evaluation of excretory/secretory Fasciola (Fhes) antigen in diagnosis of human fascioliasis. J Egypt Soc Parasitol. 2003 Apr;33(1):123-38. 

7796.Hoda SA, Ali A. Images in pathology. Food for thought! Vegetable cells in histopathological sections. Int J Surg Pathol. 2003 Apr;11(2):120. 

       Pathogenesis:

7797.Marciano-Cabral F, Cabral G. Acanthamoeba spp. as agents of disease in humans. Clin Microbiol Rev. 2003 Apr;16(2):273-307. 

7798.Zardawi IM, Kattampallil JS, Rode JW. Amoebic appendicitis. Med J Aust. 2003 May 19;178(10):523-4. 

      Therapy:

7799.Ooi BS, Seow-Choen F. Endoscopic view of rectal amebiasis mimicking a carcinoma. Tech Coloproctol. 2003 Apr;7(1):51-3. 

 

 

Ascariasis

Diagnosis, Diagnostics, Immunodiagnosis & Immunodiagnostics:

7800.   Araki T, Tada S, Ueno N, Suko H, Yoneda Y, Matsumoto T. Gastric ascariasis. Gastrointest Endosc. 2003 Apr;57(4):565. 

7801.   Chawla A, Patwardhan V, Maheshwari M, Wasnik A. Primary ascaridial perforation of the small intestine: Sonographic diagnosis. J Clin Ultrasound. 2003 May;31(4):211-3.

7802.   de Silva NR. Impact of mass chemotherapy on the morbidity due to soil-transmitted nematodes. Acta Trop. 2003 May;86(2-3):197-214. 

7803.   Montresor A, Awasthi S, Crompton DW. Use of benzimidazoles in children younger than 24 months for the treatment of soil-transmitted helminthiasis. : Acta Trop. 2003 May;86(2-3):223-32. 

7804.   Pirlich M, Schachschal G, Wermke W. Image of the month. Gastroenterology. 2003 Apr;124(4):879, 1171.  

Pathogenesis:

7805.   Gastric ascariasis. Araki T, Tada S, Ueno N, Suko H, Yoneda Y, Matsumoto T. Gastrointest Endosc. 2003 Apr;57(4):565. 

Therapy:

7806.   Cooper PJ, Chico ME, Rodrigues LC, Ordonez M, Strachan D, Griffin GE, Nutman TB. Reduced risk of atopy among school-age children infected with geohelminth parasites in a rural area of the tropics. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2003 May;111(5):995-1000. 

7807. Miller G, Schecter WP, Harris HW. Gallbladder ascariasis in a patient with severe pancreatitis. Surgery. 2003 Apr;133(4):445-6. 

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