Parasitic Diseases List

ROCHESTER — If your dog or cat gets to romp around outside a lot, especially in natural areas, he or she may come across an irresistible, yet flea-infested animal or animal carcass on which to chomp. And if those fleas are infected with Dipilydium, or tapeworm, your pet might get them too. Does this mean your family is also at risk? "I know it's gross, but it's unlikely that people will get tapeworms from their pets," says Mary Jette, a veterinary technician at Quarry Hill Park Animal Hospital in Rochester. "It's possible, but in order to develop tapeworms, you have to eat an infected host, such as a flea. Even if you were to eat the egg sacks that you find in you pet's feces, you won't get tapeworms because the parasite has to go through a host." If your pet swallows a flea that's infected with tapeworm larvae, the worm can then grow into an adult. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention websi...

In resource-limited settings, Kinyoun staining should be considered as a method to detect intestinal parasitic infections in patients with HIV, according to results of a study published in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases . This single-center cross-sectional study included patients (N=163) with HIV infection enrolled at the Asella Teaching and Referral Hospital in Ethiopia. Researchers evaluated patients with (n=85) and without (n=78) self-reported diarrhea, defined as 3 or more loose bowel movements for at least 3 consecutive days. The researchers obtained stool and blood samples from each patient to assess for the presence of a parasitic infection. The samples were evaluated using wet mount light microscopy and Kinyoun staining, a modified acid-fast staining technique. Chi-square testing and multivariate logistic regression were used to determine risk factors for infection. Among patients included in the analysis, 62.0% were women, the mean age ...

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A massive analysis of more than 10,000 different Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria isolates from 23 countries has revealed new genes associated with resistance to 13 first- and second-line new and repurposed antibiotics. The work, carried out by Comprehensive Resistance Prediction for Tuberculosis: an International Consortium (CRyPTIC), is described in two new papers publishing August 11 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology . Tuberculosis (TB) is a curable and preventable disease; 85% of those affected can be successfully treated with a six-month regimen of drugs. Despite this, TB has killed more people than other infectious diseases in many recent years, and drug resistant TB is a continual threat. A better understanding of the M. tuberculosis variants that confer antibiotic resistance is important for both better monitoring of resistant strains as well as the development of new drugs. In the first new paper, the researchers outlined how they assembled an open-access data co...

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Introduction Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is a condition in which patients with chronic liver diseases develop hepatic and extrahepatic organ failure due to acute insults. 1 In Asia and many other developing regions, the majority of ACLF patients have chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections, which are characterized by a high prevalence of coagulation disorder. 2 ACLF patients in Europe or North America mostly have non-HBV-related liver cirrhosis in which coagulation disorder is much less frequent than those with HBV-related liver cirrhosis. It has been demonstrated that C5a receptor (C5aR), TNF-a, and fibrinogen-like protein 2 (FGL2) form an integral network that contributes to coagulation and complement activation from FH patients infected by HBV. 3 In contrast to the ACLF definition of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) 1 or the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), 4 coagulation disorder is an essential component i...

According to the clinical services director of Specsavers, Giles Edmonds, redness and a "gritty feeling" in the eye could mean you have ocular herpes. This infection is usually caused by the herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), which also causes cold sores. Speaking to Express.co.uk, Giles said: "Common symptoms of herpes simplex keratitis include redness around the front of the eye, pain, aching or a gritty feeling as well as sensitivity to bright light. "It can also cause eyes to water, vision to become blurry and swelling." He urged people to seek medical help if they had any concerns about these symptoms. "Depending on which part of the eye is affected you may be prescribed antiviral ointment or drops, steroid drops or anti-viral tablets," he added. The NHS describes the condition as a "potentially serious" type of eye infection. READ MORE: Lung cancer symptoms: Two signs in your breathing could signal a tumour – 'Stay alert...

Abstract The US Department of Housing and Urban Development-Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) program provides Veterans with a subsidy for rent and case management. In response to the Coronavirus 2019 pandemic, many states enacted stay-at-home orders that may have limited access to case managers. Therefore, we examined the association between statewide stay-at-home orders and utilization of HUD-VASH case management. We linked data on whether a state implemented a statewide stay-at-home order between March 1, 2020 and April 30, 2020 with VA medical records. Analysis time was centered on the date of a state's stay-at-home order (exposed states). For Veterans in states without a stay-at home-order (unexposed states), we used the average date exposed states implemented an order (March 27, 2020). We used a difference-in-difference design and adjusted linear regression models to compare total, in-person, telephone, and video case management encounters per ...