| serodiagnosis of ascariasis with specific igg4 antibody and its use in an epidemiological study. | in an earlier study ascaris-specific igg4 antibody was found to be elevated in cases of ascariasis. however, the usefulness of the elevated levels of this antibody in ascaris infection as a diagnostic marker has not been well established. in india, in early 1999, blood samples of 83 cases of ascaris infection, 35 cases of other nematode infection and 53 control subjects (without any helminth infection) were tested for anti-ascaris igg4 by elisa. further anti-ascaris igg4 levels in the blood of a ... | 2001 | 11490999 |
| intestinal parasitism and vibrio cholerae infection among diarrhoeal patients in kolkata, india. | in this study, we have analysed the epidemiological significance of the concurrent infections caused by vibrio cholerae and intestinal parasites among different age groups of hospitalized diarrhoeal patients in kolkata. a total of 3556 stool samples collected during 1996-2004 were screened for vibrios and parasites. the seasonality of v. cholerae and parasitic infections were studied in detail. the detection rates for ascaris lumbricoides and giardia lamblia infection were more than for the hook ... | 2008 | 17594735 |
| a study on the prevalence of hookworm infection in four districts of west bengal and its linkage with anaemia. | stool samples collected from the districts of darjeeling, jalpaiguri, hooghly and calcutta in west bengal were examined for hookworm and associated parasites. it was found that maximum prevalence of hookworm was in hooghly district (24.8%). n. americanus appeared to be more prevalent species in all the districts studied. the load ofhookworm infection appeared to be mostly in the mild range. ascaris lumbricoides appeared to the most common accompanying infection. in the affected population, the d ... | 2007 | 17883107 |