| strongyloides stercoralis: a field-based survey of mothers and their preschool children using elisa, baermann and koga plate methods reveals low endemicity in western uganda. | to ascertain the current status of strongyloidiasis in mothers and their preschool children, a field-based survey was conducted in western uganda using a combination of diagnostic methods: elisa, baermann concentration and koga agar plate. the prevalence of other soil-transmitted helminthiasis and intestinal schistosomiasis were also determined. in total, 158 mothers and 143 children were examined from five villages within kabale, hoima and masindi districts. in mothers and children, the general ... | 2008 | 18416881 |
| forest fragmentation, the decline of an endangered primate, and changes in host-parasite interactions relative to an unfragmented forest. | forest fragmentation may alter host-parasite interactions in ways that contribute to host population declines. we tested this prediction by examining parasite infections and the abundance of infective helminths in 20 forest fragments and in unfragmented forest in kibale national park, uganda. over 4 years, the endangered red colobus (procolobus rufomitratus) declined by 20% in fragments, whereas the black-and-white colobus (colobus guereza) in fragments and populations of both colobines in unfra ... | 2008 | 17879941 |