Publications

intractable diarrhoea of infancy and its management: modified cost effective treatment.	one-hundred-twenty infants under 1 year of age suffering from intractable diarrhoea were studied. they had received prior treatment in the form of antimicrobials (100 per cent), stool binding substance (50 percent), antimotility agents (50 per cent), and intravenous (iv) fluids (33 per cent). one-third of them had been hospitalised in peripheral hospitals. all of them had diarrhoea of more than 2 weeks' duration, protein energy malnutrition and were very ill. in addition vomiting, dehydration, f ...	1994	8078114
tubulin diversity in trophozoites of giardia lamblia.	giardia lamblia is a diplomonad that parasitizes the small intestine of vertebrates. the trophozoite is multiflagellar and its cytoskeleton presents a complex organization of microtubular structures. one of these, the adhesive disk, consists of a microtubular spiral. the median body, whose function is not yet determined, is also composed by microtubules. the cell has eight flagella and two microtubule sheets, known as the funis. in this study we used several antibodies and immunofluorescence mic ...	2003	12687378
blackhead disease (histomoniasis) in poultry: a critical review.	after its discovery in 1893 in rhode island, blackhead disease was reported across the continent and soon in many other countries. it decimated the turkey industry in new england and followed production like a faithful shadow. blackhead disease causes high mortality in turkeys, sometimes approaching 100% of a flock. in chickens, the mortality may be 10%-20% with high morbidity, although many outbreaks pass unnoticed. early workers identified histomonas meleagridis, a protozoan related to entamoe ...	2005	16404985
giardia duodenalis genotypes and cryptosporidium species in humans and domestic animals in côte d'ivoire: occurrence and evidence for environmental contamination.	giardia duodenalis genotypes and cryptosporidium species were studied in humans and free-ranging animals living in closed enclaves in côte d'ivoire. three hundred and seven stool samples were tested from humans, and 47 from freely roaming domestic animals (dogs, goats, ducks, chickens). molecular characterization of the isolates was performed by sequence analysis of a portion of the ssu-rdna for giardia and the cowp gene for cryptosporidium, and a β-giardin sybr-green real-time pcr was also used ...	2012	22265078
detection of zoonotic enteropathogens in children and domestic animals in a semirural community in ecuador.	animals are important reservoirs of zoonotic enteropathogens, and transmission to humans occurs more frequently in low- and middle-income countries (lmics), where small-scale livestock production is common. in this study, we investigated the presence of zoonotic enteropathogens in stool samples from 64 asymptomatic children and 203 domestic animals of 62 households in a semirural community in ecuador between june and august 2014. multilocus sequence typing (mlst) was used to assess zoonotic tran ...	2016	27208122