| prevalence and factors associated with intestinal parasitic infection among children in an urban slum of karachi. | intestinal parasitic infections are endemic worldwide and have been described as constituting the greatest single worldwide cause of illness and disease. poverty, illiteracy, poor hygiene, lack of access to potable water and hot and humid tropical climate are the factors associated with intestinal parasitic infections. the study aimed to estimate prevalence and identify factors associated with intestinal parasitic infections among 1 to 5 years old children residing in an urban slum of karachi pa ... | 2008 | 18997865 |
| influence of intestinal cestodes on the blood picture of the brown rats (rattus norvegicus) of hyderabad sindh, pakistan. | present study was performed to determined the changes in the blood picture of the brown rats rattus norvegicus naturally infected with intestinal cestodes. the results are based on the examination of 82 brown rats captured at random from hyderabad city and its adjacent areas. blood profiling of cestode (hymenolepis diminuta and hymenolepis nana) infected male and female rats showed significantly lower values of total erythrocyte count (tec), haemoglobin (hb) concentration, haematocrit (hct), mea ... | 2007 | 19093515 |