The prevalence of intestinal parasites in children in preschools and orphanages in the Warmia-Masuria province (North-Eastern Poland).

Objective: A comparison of the prevalence of intestinal parasites (IP) in preschoolers and orphans in the Warmia-Masuria province (Poland).

Material And Methods: Between 2003-2006 fecal samples and perianal swabs from 1052 preschoolers and 859 orphans were tested on the basis of direct saline and iodine mount, decantation test and the adhesive cellophane tape method.

Results: 10.

Seroprevalence of Lyme disease and genospecies of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in patients diagnosed with borreliosis in the Province of Warmia-Masuria in north-eastern Poland.

Between 2009-2010, a group of 259 patients suspected of contracting Lyme disease were examined in the Provincial Sanitary-Epidemiological Station in Olsztyn for the presence of IgM and IgG against specific Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (s.l.) genospecies antigens by immunoblot.

[Serological confirmation of the prevalence of tick-borne encephalitis virus among patients with neurological infections in the Warmia-Masuria province in 2006-2010].

The aim of the study was to analyze of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) in the Warmia-Masuria province on the basis of serological testing of 878 patients with symptoms of neurological infections, diagnosed in 2006-2010 in the Voivodeship Sanitary-Epidemiological Station in Olsztyn. Specific IgM and IgG antibodies against the TBE virus were detected in serum and cerebrospinal fluid samples by ELISA method. Percentage of persons with serologically confirmed TBE was 15.

[Infections caused by Shigella flexneri recognized as food poisonings in Warmia and Mazury Voivodeship].

This article treats of infections submitted as food poisoning examples caused by Shigella flexneri 3a which is an etiological factor of diseases characterized by different clinical picture. The aim of the research was to test our laboratory specific procedure in diagnostics of Shigella infections. The stool was inoculated on three following solid culture media: salmonella - Shigella Agar (SS), Mac Conkey Agar (MC), Hektoen Enteric Agar (HE) and one liquid medium selenite - phosphate medium (SF).