Role of Indoleamine 2,3-Dioxygenase and Tryptophan 2,3-Dioxygenase in Patients with Recurrent Miscarriage.

Problem: An indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) and a tryptophan 2,3-dioxygenase (TDO) lead to dysfunction of T cell and immunological tolerance between fetus and mother in early pregnancy. We investigated the role of IDO and TDO in patients with recurrent miscarriage.

Methods Of Study: Cervical mucus, decidua, and villi were surgically collected from patients with recurrent miscarriage from April 2010 to March 2013.

Case of cutaneous Scedosporium apiospermum infection successfully treated with voriconazole.

We report a case of cutaneous infection due to Scedosporium apiospermum in a 75-year-old immunocompromised male patient who had received long-term corticosteroid and immunosuppressant therapy for the treatment of nephrotic syndrome. The patient came to our department complaining of erythema with a number of pustules on the dorsal surface of the right hand. S.

Growth and development of Massaliatrema misgurni (Trematoda: Heterophyidae) in mice and its metacercarial morphology.

The morphology of metacercariae of Massaliatrema misgurni Ohyama et al. (Ohyama et al., Parasitol Int 2001; 50; 267-71) was described, and their infectivity, egg output, growth and development in mice until day 35 post infection (PI) were studied.

Epidemiological survey of intestinal parasitic infections of diarrhoeal patients in Nepal and Lao PDR.

Intestinal parasitological survey was conducted to clarify the distribution of intestinal parasites in Nepal and Lao Peoples' Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) from 2001 to 2003. A total of 401 diarrheal fecal specimens were collected from patients aged one to 75 years (250 from Nepal and 151 from Lao PDR). The specimens were examined using the formalin-ether sedimentation (FES) and sucrose centrifugal flotation (SCF) techniques.