Current Issues New Infections Procedures Frequently Asked Questions About Medical Parasitology Quiz of the Month - 2001 Quiz of the Month - 2002 NEW CPT Codes Hello and welcome to PARA-SITE Online. Thank you for visiting our site. The purpose of this site is to inform the public about the field of diagnostic medical parasitology. Within this site you will find numerous topics ranging from new ...
www.med-chem.com/Para/Index.htm
The Netherlands Society for Parasitology.
Index Scientific programme Location Social programme Hotels Organizing committee Scientific Committee Registration Travel Fellowships Abstract submission Proceedings Sponsors Homepage Created by : Fred Opperdoes Last updated: May 16, 2000 Third COST B9 Congress on Antiprotozoal Chemotherapy and Trypanosomiasis and Leishmaniasis Seminars, Bruges, Belgium, 28-31 May 2000 Post-doctoral positions ...
Alphabetical Listing | Travel Leishmania Infection (Leishmaniasis) Leishmania Leishmania Infection Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Unexplained Illness Among Persian Gulf War Veterans in an Air National Guard Unit: Preliminary Report -- August 1990-March 1995 (June 16, 1995 / 44(23);443-447) Cutaneous Leishmaniasis -- Ohio (August 23, 1985 / 34(33);515-6) Viscerotropic Leishmaniasis ...
www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/leishmania/default.htm
Contents Destinations Outbreaks Diseases Vaccinations Insect/Arthropod Protection Safe Food and Water Travel Medicine Clinics Traveling with Children Special Needs Travelers Traveling with Pets Cruise Ships and Air Travel Medical Emergency Preparation Nonmedical Emergency Preparation Reference Materials Yellow Book Visitor Survey Other Related Sites State and Local Health Departments Division of ...
www.cdc.gov/travel/diseases/leishmaniasis.htm
BLOOD, BONE MARROW, SPLEEN AND LIVER PARASITES ZOOMASTIGOPHOREA Order: Kinetoplastida LEISHMANIA DONOVANI leis1-ic Leishmania sp.: life cycle. don2-ic Visceral leishmaniasis has a wide geographic distribution. North-Eastern China, India, Middle-East, Southern Europe (Mediterranean bassin), Northern Africa, Central-East Africa and, in foci, Central and South America (especially Brazil and ...
www.cdfound.to.it/HTML/lei1.htm
INTESTINAL (Protozoa) AND LIVER PARASITES SPOROZOEA Order: Eucoccidiida CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM A Review of Cryptosporidiosis Omar A. Khan, Associate Faculty, Dept. of International Health, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Suite 310, 111 Market Place Baltimore, Maryland 21202-4024 USA. Table of Contents Introduction - Historical Background & Importance - Modes of Transmission & ...
www.cdfound.to.it/HTML/khan.htm
Current Bibliographies in Medicine 94-3 Persian Gulf Experience and Health CBM 94-3 Persian Gulf Experience and Health January 1971 through March 1994 594 Selected Citations Prepared by Jacqueline van de Kamp, M.L.S., Specialized Information Services, National Library of Medicine John H. Ferguson, M.D., Office of Medical Applications of Research, National Institutes of Health U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ...
www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/cbm/persgulf.html
Sypmtoms, control, life cycle, host-parasite relationships, and distribution of Swimmer's Itch.
www.hope.edu/swimmersitch
Visceral Leishmaniasis These pages are created by Masoud Akhtar for submission in partial fulfilment of the final year B.Sc Microbiology course at the university of East London under the supervision of Dr. David Humber. Contents Introduction Geographical distribution and epidemiology Transmission Visceral leishmaniasis: The disease and sypmtoms Control WWW active sites on leishmaniasis ...
homepages.uel.ac.uk/D.P.Humber/akhter/vlhp.htm
Articles on Cryptosporidiosis, at The Body, the complete AIDS and HIV information resource.
www.thebody.com/treat/cryptosp.html
CASE REPORT AND UPDATES IN PARASITOLOGY Leshcutan, a new available topical treatment for cutaneous leishmaniasis By Joseph El-On and Louis Weinrauch, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel. leis13ic Leishmaniasis designates a human disorder produced by protozoan parasites of the genus Leishmania. The ...
www.cdfound.to.it/HTML/leis_cr.htm
Leishmaniasis - Protozoa of the Leishmania species cause leishmaniasis. Their life cycle involves an insect vector (ie, a different species of sandflies) and a vertebrate host. Different Leishmania species in many geographic regions cause disease. Infection may be classified into the 3 clinical syndromes of cutaneous, mucocutaneous, and visceral ...
www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic296.htm
Alphabetical Listing | Travel Pinworm Infection What is pinworm infection This infection is caused by a small, white intestinal worm called Enterobius vermicularis (EN-ter-O-be-us ver-MIK-u-lar-is). Pinworms are about the length of a staple and live in the rectum of humans. While an infected person sleeps, female pinworms leave the intestines through the anus and deposit eggs on the surrounding ...
www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/pinworm/factsht_pinworm.htm
The Leishmaniases The leishmaniases is a group of diseases caused by protozoan haemoflagelates of the genus Leishmania. These protists belong to the family of the Trypanosomatidae (order Kinetoplastida) and are closely related to the trypanosomes. The disease is tranmitted by female sandflies (Phlebotomus or Lutzomya) that feed on the blood of an animal or human host. Leishmaniasis is a zoonosis.
www.icp.ucl.ac.be/~opperd/parasites/leish1.htm
Reprinted with permission of Clinical Infectious Diseases. Copyright by the University of Chicago Press, 1995. Reference: Clin Infect Dis 1995;20:1497-1504. The Impact of Infectious Diseases on the Health of U.S. Troops Deployed to the Persian Gulf During Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm Kenneth C. Hyams1 Kevin Hanson2 F. Stephen Wignall3 Joel Escamilla4 Edward C. Oldfield III5 1.
www.gulflink.osd.mil/medical/med_impact.htm
Information on treatment of microsporidiosis at The Body, the complete AIDS/HIV information resource.
www.thebody.com/treat/micros.html
American Osteopathic College of Dermatology skin disease database: The technical name for swimmer's itch is cercarial dermatitis.In developing countries, swimmer's itch translates into ...
www.aocd.org/skin/dermatologic_diseases/swimmers_itch.html
Learn about Cryptosporidosis here ...
www.mamashealth.com/crypto.asp
Hemoflagellates Rodrigo A. Zeled n General Concepts American Trypanosomiasis (Chagas Disease) Clinical Manifestations Symptoms of acute disease may include fever, local or general edema, lymphadenopathy, tachycardia, heart enlargement, and myocarditis. Heart alterations and, occasionally, megaesophagus or megacolon may appear as late sequelae. Structure Typical, small trypomastigotes are found ...
gsbs.utmb.edu/microbook/ch082.htm
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS Full Text of this Article Reprint (PDF) Version of this Article Similar articles found in: The JI PubMed PubMed Citation Search Medline for articles by: Stager, S. || Kaye, P. M. Alert me when: new articles cite this article Download to Citation Manager The Journal of Immunology, 2000, 165: 7064-7071. Copyright 2000 by The ...
www.jimmunol.org/cgi/content/abstract/165/12/7064
