J Waikagul

..Health promotion, by means of a school-based educational approach is recommended; regular check-ups should be implemented, and a continuos program of treatment should be considered...

..Taeniasis will persist in Thailand as the consumption of raw/half-cooked meat dishes is still a normal practice for Thai people...

..These institutional and conference networks will enable closer links, to promote the health of people in the Southeast Asian region...

..The tegumental spines of the worm in this study were singly spaced in arrangement, which is similar to, but larger than, the spines of P. heterotremus. Therefore, Paragonimus pseudoheterotremus is proposed as a new species...

..a trematode that parasitizes the eyes of birds. This is the first human case of Philophthalmus infection in Thailand...

..Most hookworm and Trichuris infections were of light intensity. Heavy intensity infection was found in 12.8-18.1% of Ascaris cases examined. Parasite infection rates in Chaloem Phra Kiat District can be classified as low prevalence...

..84 (cocktail antigen) and 0.87 (eluted antigen). This study showed that Bithynia snail antigen could be used to replace worm antigen in the antibody detection of human O. viverrini infection...

..No infections were found in villagers age < 30 years, despite the high density of metacercariae in the crabs, indicating a change in the habit of eating raw food among the younger people...

..These results showed that copro-DNA diagnosis was useful for the differential diagnosis of O. viverrini and H. taichui infection, which could not be discriminated by microscopy...

..The activities need to be sustainable and supported by appropriate school-health policies...

..Thus, Iso-AgF7 to IgG1 was a good candidate antigen to be developed for detection of antibodies against Opisthorchis viverrini...

..6% cure rate and the placebo at 15.9%. At the single dose, benzimidazole could not completely expelled the haplorchid; but could reduce one third to two fifth of the infection, similar to the drugs efficacy against Trichuris infection...

..These 4 confirmed or suspected cysticercosis cases were free of T. solium worms, but two of them including confirmed NCC case had a past (>1 year) history of expelling proglottids in the stool...

..This study has reported a possible link between H. taichui and IBS, and H. taichui might probably play a role in the etiology of these IBS-like symptoms...

..All infected people were successfully treated with mebendazole; the one patient with severe symptomatology was treated successfully with prednisolone...

..10 Ag to produce a negative result to echinococcosis, because limited cystic fluid antigen (Thai patient) for test improvement, a lot of cross-reactions and only two protoscolex-positive controls are available...

..We describe one additional fish species, Systomus orphoides (Puntius orphoides), which is first recorded as a naturally infected second intermediate host of G. spinigerum...

..MWCOP1Ag gave higher sensitivity than that of DLPP1Ag but some cross-reactivity occurred...

..A survey for natural intermediate hosts to complete the life cycle was in progress at that time, and the detection of paragonimiasis cases indicated that there was persistence of paragonimiasis in the endemic area of Nan Province...

..Examination of the health behavior of the study samples showed that approximately 75% always defecated in a toilet. Schoolchildren who always wore shoes comprised 67%, which was lower than the community, at 85%...

..It remains unclear whether the chronic abdominal pain of the patient was caused by this trematode infection. Whatever is the pathogenicity of this trematode, this is the first human case of A. sanguineum infection in the literature...

..The small liver fluke found in this study were identified as Opisthorchis viverrini by the morphological features of adult worms, and this identification was confirmed by partial COI sequencing of the metacercariae...

..The nucleotide variations of the COI gene in the four types of larvae indicated the presence of an intra-specific variation of mitochondrial DNA in the G. spinigerum population...

..PCR assays were employed for preliminary analysis using fecal samples diagnosed as having "small trematode eggs" by modified thick smear, showing 76.2% sensitivity for ITS1 and 95.2% for ITS2...

..01). Thirty-four clonorchiasis patients treated with praziquantel 25 mg/kg/day for three days showed a cure rate in 30 days of 97.1%...

..Non-diluted sweat attracted the most larvae. Sweat might act as one of the most probable factors for infection by this skin-penetrating nematode...

..Phylogenetic analyses using other molecular markers with more species are necessary to work out solid phylogenetic relationships among the species in this subfamily...

..viverrini species complex should be rejected. The bio-geographical diversity of O. viverrini populations should be explored further, using other appropriate markers and a wider range of samples from geographically different areas...

..Eggs per day per worm (EPDPW) of H. taichui were estimated 82 from egg counts and expelled worms. The EPG was not well correlated with the worm burden, and a reverse correlation was observed between the EPDPW and the worm burden...

..DNA analysis of morphologically identified T. saginata, in a dual infection with T. solium, indicated it was T. asiatica. To our knowledge, this report is the first of T. asiatica and a dual Taenia infection from Thailand...

..viverrini and H. taichui infections in endemic areas, and for detecting metacercariae of O. viverrini, C. sinensis and H. taichui in epidemiological surveys of infections in fish hosts...

..Beyond Thailand, school-based malaria control could be applied to other Greater Mekong Subregion countries with careful analysis of school health context in each country...

..These data indicate its possible application in immunodiagnosis of clinically suspected angiostrongyliasis. Key words: Angiostrongylus cantonensis,eosinophilic meningitis, recombinant fusion protein, immunodiagnosis..

..6%. The constructed phylogenic tree with high bootstrap proportion suggested that P. pseudoheterotremus is a sister species of P. heterotremus...

..This indicates that further efforts should be made to establish research guidelines and/or principles dealing with the human genome...

..This study provides baseline data for further serodiagnosis of Brugian filariasis using dirofilaria antigen...

..In conclusion, our results suggest that school children can act as health information messengers from schools to communities for malaria control in Lao PDR...

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..90.4% of all worms recovered). These results demonstrate that fishborne intestinal parasites are an unrecognized food safety risk in a country whose people have a strong tradition of eating raw fish...

..Implementing "beyond-deworming" efforts is now a practical challenge in the subregion...

..Disease prevention methods, including disease surveillance, education and improved drinking water treatment are described...