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

Four epidemiological categories were initially devised for classifying water-related infectious
“diseases” with regard to the engineering technologies required to prevent or control them …

This report updates and combines earlier versions of guidelines for the prevention and
treatment of opportunistic infections (OIs) in HIV-infected adults (ie, persons aged> 18 years) …

Over the past few decades, nucleic acid-based methods have been developed for the
diagnosis of intestinal parasitic infections. Advantages of nucleic acid-based methods are …

Animals found in close proximity to humans in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs)
harbor many pathogens capable of infecting humans, transmissible via their feces. Contact …

Despite recent advances in diagnostic technology, microscopic examination of stool
specimens remains central to the diagnosis of most pathogenic intestinal protozoa …

In a retrospective study, the results of parasitological examinations of faecal samples from
8,560 cats and 24,677 dogs between January 2003 and December 2010 in Germany were …

Simple Summary Despite evidence of a minor role of gastrointestinal parasites in causing
disease in owned pet populations prophylactically treated with anthelmintics …

Two mixed-breed littermate dogs were fed mouse brains containing tissue cysts of the NC-
beef isolate of Neospora caninum. Both dogs excreted N. caninum oocysts in their feces …

Water is one of the most important substances on earth and without it life cannot exist.
However, poor water quality in many parts of the world has increased the number of water …