| [short communication: investigation of intestinal coccidia in patients with diarrhea]. | the intestinal protozoa have been increasingly identified in immunocompromised patients. in this study, stool samples of 554 patients [288 male, 266 female; 11 (2%) of them were immunocompromised] with diarrhea were examined between june 2004 and june 2005 in the parasitology laboratory of dokuz eylul university hospital, izmir, turkey, in order to investigate the prevalence of intestinal coccidia. after formalin-ethyl acetate sedimentation procedure, the samples were examined by both native lug ... | 2007 | 17427562 |
| human cyclosporiosis in turkey. | six patients infected with cyclospora cayetanensis who sought medical care at three different hospitals in turkey are herein presented. four patients were male and the others were female and their ages ranged from 7 to 62 years. the first patient was hiv-positive and presented with watery diarrhea with a frequency of up to 18 times a day for more than ten months and diagnosed as cyclosporiosis in kayseri, 1996. the second patient was also hiv positive and diagnosed as cyclosporiosis in kayseri, ... | 2004 | 15188522 |
| detection of toxoplasma gondii and cyclospora cayetanensis in mytilus galloprovincialis from izmir province coast (turkey) by real time pcr/high-resolution melting analysis (hrm). | to evaluate the presence of toxoplasma gondii and cyclospora cayetanensis in edible shellfish, a total of 795 specimens of mytilus galloprovincialis from 8 different sites on the west coast of turkey (bays of izmir and mersin) were examined. fifty-three pooled samples were created and subjected to evagreen(®) realtime pcr assay and hrm analysis for protozoans detection and oocyst quantification. seven out of 8 sites were contaminated with at least one protozoan species. twenty-one out of 53 (39. ... | 2014 | 25084654 |