Publications by authors named "A H Ngoc"
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- A rare case of Hymenolepis diminuta infection was reported in a 16-month-old boy from rural Bac Giang province, Vietnam, where such infections are uncommon.
- The patient experienced mild diarrhea and abdominal pain, and H. diminuta was confirmed through stool examination and genetic testing.
- The boy was effectively treated with a single oral dose of praziquantel and made a full recovery, contributing to the knowledge of H. diminuta infections and treatment options.
Using Synbiotics as a Therapy to Protect Mental Health in Alzheimer's Disease.
J Microbiol Biotechnol
September 2024
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurological disorder that represents a major cause of dementia worldwide. Its pathogenesis involves multiple pathways, including the amyloid cascade, tau protein, oxidative stress, and metal ion dysregulation. Recent studies have suggested a critical link between changes in gut microbial diversity and the disruption of the gut-brain axis in AD.
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- The study investigates the prevalence, risk factors, and distribution of genotypes related to endocervical infections in infertile women in Vietnam, finding a 15.6% infection rate among 761 participants.
- Factors associated with these infections include abnormal vaginal discharge, cervicitis, lower abdominal pain, history of ectopic pregnancy, multiple sexual partners, and age at first sexual intercourse.
- The most common genotypes identified were E, D, and F, highlighting the need for routine screening and infection control measures for better reproductive health outcomes.
Fascioliasis is a zoonotic disease caused by Fasciola hepatica or F. gigantica. There are two phases of Fasciola infection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBedaquiline Drug Resistance Emergence Assessment in Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) (DREAM) was a 5-year (2015 to 2019) phenotypic drug resistance surveillance study across 11 countries. DREAM assessed the susceptibility of 5,036 MDR-TB isolates of bedaquiline treatment-naive patients to bedaquiline and other antituberculosis drugs by the 7H9 broth microdilution (BMD) and 7H10/7H11 agar dilution (AD) MIC methods. Bedaquiline AD MIC quality control (QC) range for the H37Rv reference strain was unchanged, but the BMD MIC QC range (0.
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