Stool examination

Part 2 book "Markell and voge’s medical parasitology" includes contents: The intestinal nematodes; the blood and tissue dwelling nematodes; arthropods and human disease; parasitic infections in immunocompromised hosts; pseudoparasites and pitfalls examination of stool specimens; examination of blood, other body fluids and tissues, sputum, and urine; immunodiagnostic techniques.

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All dogs imported into Iceland must undergo mandatory quarantine in a special station before introduction into the country. A faecal sample is collected from the first stool passed by the dog in this station and subsequently examined for the presence of intestinal parasite stages.

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In this retrospective study, 1872 stool specimens examined from January 2018 to December 2018 by saline and iodine mount were included. The negative samples were further screened using formol ether concentration technique. 114 (16.1%) out of 1872 specimens were positive for parasitic infection.

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To determine the prevalence of intestinal parasites among school children belonged to different communities from urban, peri-urban and rural areas in Khurda district, Odisha, India. Stool samples were collected from the school children according to the standard procedures. All the stool samples were examined by the direct microscopic examination and by the formalin - ether concentration methods. A total of 1114 stool specimen were collected from different schools in 1995.

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The objective of this study was to evaluate prevalence of parasitic infection among school children and their association with socio- demographic, environmental and behavioral habits of school children. The specimen was selected randomly. This study was conduct among 250 children (6-15 years of age) from the above school. Stool sample were collected and brought immediately to the microbiology laboratory at department of microbiology for processing. The specimens were examined by both macroscopically and microscopically for the presence of parasite.

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The complexity of health ailments parasites inflict on human’s remains a major issue worldwide. Accurate diagnosis of a parasite is the first step to fight against these parasitism and infectious diseases. To detect, identify and determine the prevalence of parasites among patients with abdominal symptoms in and around village banger, Dewas and also to compare different methods of wet mount preparations for stool examination.

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After completing this unit, you should be able to: Discuss the role of the medical assistant in collecting, processing, and testing urine and stool samples; carry out procedures for following guidelines when collecting urine specimens; describe the process of urinalysis and its purpose;...

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Aim of the study is to detect Cryptosporidium, a newly emerging parasite in malnourished children with and without diarrhea, using conventional methods and special staining techniques. A total of 727 children comprised of 497 malnourished and 230 normal children having with and without diarrhoea. Two consecutive samples were collected from each individual and one preserved using 10% formalin. Examination of helminthes and protozoan in the stool samples were done by direct wet mount method and by formalin ether sedimentation method.

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In this study systematic bacteriological examination of aseptically collected 150 shrimp samples, 27 samples of hand swabs from fish handlers were collected from retail fish outlets, and 23 stool samples from patients suffered with digestive disturbances after consumption of seafood reported to private clinics, all from Navsari city were investigated. The samples were enriched in Alkaline Peptone Water followed by direct plating on selective media viz. Thiosulfate Citrate Bile Salt Sucrose agar and Vibrio parahaemolyticus sucrose agar.

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In this study, a patient who was hospitalized with severe anaemia in the department of Internal Medicine at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh is presented. The patient had fever, swelling of feet since 8 months and cough with expectoration since last 3 months along with significant weight loss three months prior to admission. Severe Iron deficiency anaemia was diagnosed in this patient by laboratory analysis. Patient did not improve despite being transfused with 2 units of packed RBC.

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Intestinal parasitic infections are worldwide endemic and are a major public health problem of concern. The incidence is high in developing countries like India probably due to contaminated food and lack of knowledge. The stool samples from healthy individuals in slum communities of Ghaziabad were collected and examined Macroscopic for the presence adult worms or their body segments and microscopic examination both saline and iodine mounts after Formol-ether concentration technique for presence of cyst and eggs.

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The point prevalence of Clostridium difficile stool shedding in hospitalized infants from two neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) was examined utilizing standard clinical testing compared with duplex PCR to identify toxigenic and non-toxigenic C. difficile strains.

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Intestinal parasitic Infections are one of the major health problems in developing countries like India. The prevalence of different parasitic infections varies from one place to another and depends on many factors such as socio-economic status, hygiene, water supply, sanitation, population density, nutritional status and climatic conditions. This was a retrospective study conducted from January 2017 to December 2018 at a tertiary care hospital, Kalaburagi which is a dry, hot place. Stool samples sent from different departments irrespective of age were included in the study.

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Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection and its end stage, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), is an extremely serious problem worldwide. HIV seropositive patients with CD4 T cell count < 200 cells/μl have reported an excess risk of diarrhoea. The present study was undertaken in the at Dr. S.C.G.M.C, Nanded between November 2015 and October 2017 to identify Opportunistic Intestinal parasites in HIV positive patients presenting with or without diarrhoea and their association with CD4 T cell count.

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Among various intestinal infections, parasites always contributing higher burden world wide, especially in low socio-economic countries; and accounts for a major cause of morbidity and mortality among different high risk group. To find out the prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections among patients attending various OPDs in Himalayan Institute of Medical sciences, a tertiary care center in Dehradun, UK.

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Rotavirus antigenemia and RNAemia (the presence of rotavirus RNA in serum) have been commonly identified among paediatric patients with acute gastroenteritis. In this study we examined the association between rotavirus antigenemia and clinical features, and sought to determine the genotypes of rotaviruses detected in paired stool and serum samples.

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In Senegal, an efficient and effective struggle against intestinal parasites and there, their affections (bordering 40 % of the global nature of the tropical diseases other than the malaria especially in the African regions), requires essentially a good knowledge on one hand of their frequencies and geographical distributions, and on the other hand of their assessments and epidemiological distributions, and on the other hand of their assessments and epidemiological evolutions.

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Present study was undertaken to assess the hygiene quality of the meat, milk and also its prevalence on human population. A total of 330 samples including, chicken meat (n=98), Chevon (n=82), raw milk samples (n=90) and human urine (n=56) and stool samples (n=4) Samples were aseptically collected from different districts of Chhattisgarh. Samples were processed for isolation of Salmonella further subjected for the different biochemical tests and confirmed by serotyping. Confirmed isolates were tested for its antibiogram pattern against 13 different antibiotic discs.

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The study was carried out in the Department of Microbiology at our hospital from January 2017 to June 2018. A total of 880 patients were investigated for parasites from their stool samples. Specimens were collected in a suitable, clean, wide mouthed container and were examined using macroscopic and microscopic technique (saline and iodine mount).

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This study was aimed to determine the prevalence of intestinal helminth parasites of local chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) from Lalitpur district, Nepal. It was carried out from February 2014 to March 2015. A total of 125 samples (93 alimentary canals of freshly killed chicken and 32 stool samples from ground and fowl runs) were collected. Out of 93 alimentary canals 17 were collected from free range chicken and 76 were from slaughtered house i.e. from poultry farm chicken. The faecal samples were collected in the sterile vials containing 2.5 percent potassium dichromate.

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