Trypanosoma cruzi is the etiological agent of Chagas disease, usually transmitted by
triatomine vectors. An estimated 20 to 30% of infected individuals develop potentially lethal …

SUMMARY This Practical Guidance for Clinical Microbiology document on the laboratory
diagnosis of parasites from the gastrointestinal tract provides practical information for the …

New edition of the market-leading benchtop reference on the diagnosis of internal and
external parasites in animals, including expanded coverage of parasites of reptiles, birds …

En los últimos años las zoonosis y las enfermedades transmisibles comunes al hombre ya
los animales han venido siendo objeto de una creciente atención en todo el mundo. Las …

Strongyloides stercoralis infects 30 million people in 70 countries. Infection usually results in
asymptomatic chronic disease of the gut, which can remain undetected for decades …

Before 1982, only eight case reports of human cryptosporidiosis and fewer than 30 papers
on Cryptosporidium spp. appeared in the biomedical literature. At that time, cryptosporidiosis …

The detection of Entamoeba histolytica, the causative agent of amebiasis, is an important
goal of the clinical microbiology laboratory. To assess the scope of E. histolytica infection, it …

Clinical microbiology laboratories need to communicate results of antibacterial susceptibility
testing to prescribers. Sophisticated prescribers who are knowledgeable of the …

Blastocystis hominis is a unicellular organism found commonly in the intestinal tract of
humans and many other animals. Very little is known of the basic biology of the organism …

The genus Entamoeba contains many species, six of which (Entamoeba histolytica,
Entamoeba dispar, Entamoeba moshkovskii, Entamoeba polecki, Entamoeba coli, and …