The Department of Health (DOH) yesterday warned parents and guardians that apart from leptospirosis, children playing in ...

The animal that kills the most humans each year isn’t massive or visibly dangerous. In fact, it’s small, nearly silent, and often goes unnoticed.

Ascaris-specific antibodies against larval and adult worm antigens and adult excretory/secretory (ES) products in serum, broncho-alveolar lavage fluid and intestinal mucus were quantified by ELISA.

PAINTER1 and Schrader2 have recently suggested that the long chromosomes of the germ-line cells in Ascaris megalocephala are peculiar in having a large number of spindle attachments instead of ...

Between January and March 1998, a cross-sectional survey was carried out in four rural communities in Honduras, Central America. We examined the prevalence and intensity of Ascaris lumbricoides and ...

Helminth parasites—primarily the pig roundworm Ascaris suum and the nodular worm Oesophagostomum spp.—are common in pig production systems worldwide, particularly in pigs raised outdoors (1). The eggs ...

The neuropeptide galanin modulates whole-brain activity and stress responses in zebrafish, revealing a complex, receptor-dependent role in seizure regulation with implications for epilepsy, and ...

Gudzhabidze and Preobrazhenskaya5 performed experiments on Ascaris eggs by influencing them with micro-organisms, which had been isolated from the soil specimens from sewage farms.

Bacteria The amount of bacterial contamination on currency varies widely between countries (Figure 2). As a result, 88% of the paper notes tested in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia were contaminated with a ...

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