Acute Toxoplasmosis During Pregnancy: A Hard Call.

is an obligate intracellular parasite that infects all animals, including humans, and causes toxoplasmosis. If toxoplasmosis occurs during pregnancy, it may affect the foetus owing to transplacental transmission. Such transmission may lead to foetal complications, some of which can be very serious, e.

Toxoplasmosis and Neuropsychological Effects.

is an intracellular protozoan parasite. Approximately 30% of the global population is infected by . In chronically infected individuals, the parasite resides in tissue cysts, especially in the brain.

Distribution of Intestinal Parasites Detected between September 2011-2018 at Dokuz Eylül University Medical Faculty Hospital.

Objective: Intestinal parasitic diseases are important public health problems in our country as well as in the world. In this study, intestinal parasites were investigated in patients admitted to Dokuz Eylül University Hospital (DEUH) with various gastrointestinal system complaints.

Methods: Patients (n=18460) who were referred to the DEUH Central Parasitology Laboratory between January 2011 and December 2018, were included in the study.

Use of the ELISA (Em2-Em18) and Western Blotting Methods on Diagnosis of Alveolar Echinococcosis.

Objective: Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is one of the most lethal parasitic zoonoses in the Northern Hemisphere, and early serological detection is important to start treatment and to improve survival. A total of 50 sera samples of patients diagnosed as having various diseases were examined for by two different serological diagnostic methods.

Methods: Em2-Em18 ELISA (Bordier Affinity Products, Crissier, Switzerland) and Echinococcus Western Blot immünoglobulin G (IgG) (LDBIO Diagnostics, Lyon, France) were used for analyisis.

[Detection of Echinococcus granulosus and Echinococcus multilocularis in cyst samples using a novel single tube multiplex real-time polymerase chain reaction].

Cystic echinococcosis (CE) and alveolar echinococcosis (AE) caused by Echinococcus granulosus and Echinococcus multilocularis, respectively, are important helminthic diseases worldwide as well as in our country. Epidemiological studies conducted in Turkey showed that the prevalence of CE is 291-585/100.000.

[Primary Pelvic Cystic Echinococcosis].

Cystic echinococcosis caused by Echinococcus granulosus is still an important health problem in endemic areas. Cystic echinococcosis may involve different organs or areas with the most common sites being the liver and the lungs. Pelvic involvement has previously been reported and was mainly accepted as secondary to cystic echinococcosis in other organs, isolated pelvic involvement is very rare.

Evaluation of (131)I-pentamidine for scintigraphy of experimentally Leishmania tropica-infected hamsters.

We aimed to assess the ability of (131)I-Pentamidine scintigraphy to detect the lesions of Leishmania tropica infection. An experimental model of cutaneous leishmaniasis was developed. The presence of cutaneous leishmaniasis was confirmed.

Isospora belli in a patient with liver transplantation.

Isospora belli is an opportunistic protozoon which should be monitored in patients with gastrointestinal complaints such as abdominal pain, nausea and diarrhoea, in both immune-compromised and immune-competent patients. Our case was a 35 year-old male patient who had received a liver transplant because of cirrhosis and hepatic fibrosis. A diarrhoeic stool sample of the patient was sent to the laboratory for microbiological and parasitological analyses.

[Investigation of the cases presenting to Dokuz Eylül University Hospital with tick bites].

Objective: Determination of the properties of ticks, which are the vectors of many infectious diseases and the patients with tick bites are important for the prevention of these diseases. For tist reason, the purpose of this study is to determine the important properties of the cases presenting with tick bites to Dokuz Eylul University Hospital and of the removed ticks from the cases.

Methods: Two hundred seventy three of 294 patients, who presented with tick bites to Dokuz Eylül University Hospital, Izmir, were included in the study.

[The epidemiology research of Blastocystis hominis in the Dokuz Eylül University Medical Faculty Hospital between 2005 and 2009].

Objective: An investigation of Blastocystis hominis (B. hominis) prevalance in 17756 patients with gastrointestinal system complaints who presented at the parasitology laboratory of the Dokuz Eylul University Medical Faculty Hospital between January 2005 and December 2009 was carried out.

Methods: Fecal samples of all patients were examined using the native-Lugol and trichrome and Kinyoun acid-fast staining method after sedimentation in fecal concentration tubes.

Comparison of efficacy of ivermectin and doramectin against mange mite (Sarcoptes scabiei) in naturally infested rabbits in Turkey.

The authors used 14 New Zealand rabbits (5 naturally infested rabbits and 9 in-contact rabbits) for Sarcoptes scabiei treatment in this study. Signs, such as itchy ears, eyes, tail and abdominal skin, alopecia and pyoderma, were considered to be the cause of these disorders. Infested rabbits were grouped according to the intensity of S.

[Contribution to one world, one health: a dog with demodicosis.].

Dogs are the most preferred pet animal in the world. Canine demodicosis is a skin disease of dogs in which there is proliferation of Demodex canis, an acarine parasite of canine hair follicles, and is typically manifested by alopecia as well as inflammation of hair follicles and sebaceous glands. Secondary bacterial infection often induces pustule and a crusting dermatitis.

[The distribution of intestinal parasites detected in The Dokuz Eylul University Medical Faculty Hospital between 2005 and 2008.].

A retrospective evaluation of the data from 14,246 patients with gastrointestinal complaints who presented at the parasitology laboratory of the Dokuz Eylul University Medical Faculty Hospital between January 2005 and December 2008 was carried out. Fecal samples of all patients were examined using native-Lugol and the trichrome and Kinyoun acid-fast staining method after sedimentation in fecal concentration tubes. One or more parasites were detected in 1320 (9.

[Pneumocystis pneumonia in a renal transplant recipient].

Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) is an opportunistic infection caused by Pneumocystis jirovecii (P. jirovecii) in humans. We reported a 23 year-old male patient who developed pneumonia after renal transplantation.

[The investigation of frequency of cystic echinococcosis in the autopsies committed in the Speciality Department of Istanbul Forensic Medicine Institute].

Cystic echinococcosis, which is caused by a parasite called Echinococcus granulosus, is a disease frequently find in the liver and in the lungs. In many countries, it is an important public-health problem. This study was done to find out the prevalence of Cystic echinococcosis in forensic autopsies performed for sudden death cases.

Mesenteric Doppler ultrasonography findings of Echinococcus multilocularis infection: an experimental study.

The diagnosis of alveolar echinococcosis, caused by the larval stage of Echinococcus multilocularis, is often difficult and almost always possible only in the later stages of the disease. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the findings of Doppler ultrasonography images for the diagnosis of intraabdominal non-visceral alveolar echinococcosis in Meriones unguiculatus. Six infected animals were studied.

Diagnosis and treatment of demodectic blepharitis.

The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of Demodex spp. in the eyelash follicles obtained from patients seen in our ophthalmology clinic, to define the symptoms of this infestation, and to examine the effectivity of the therapy. This study was conducted in Department of Ophthalmology and Parasitology, Dokuz Eylül University, School of Medicine.

An outbreak of gastroenteritis associated with intestinal parasites.

Intestinal protozoa are one of the leading causes of waterborne outbreaks. Stool samples of 196 residents from a village of Izmir, using the public water supply, were collected during an outbreak of gastroenteritis. Patients were asked to fill out a questionnaire reporting on gender, age, gastrointestinal symptoms, whether or not there was a toilet in the house, their hygiene practices, and similar symptoms in the household members.

[The ability of 67Ga scintigraphy to detect Trichinella spiralis].

To assess the value of (67) Ga scintigraphy in the lesions of Trichinella spiralis, an animal model was developed. Three infected and five healthy animals were enrolled in this study. After the injection of 7.

The first report in Turkey of in vivo cultivation in Rattus norvegicus of Echinococcus multilocularis human strain.

The adult form of the small cestode Echinococcus multilocularis is found in carnivorous animals, especially in the fox. This cestode, which is found in the northern hemisphere in the world, is the cause of a generally fatal disease in humans, known as alveolar echinococcosis (AE). The metacestodes of Echinococcus multilocularis can be experimentally developed in the Meriones unguiculatus species of rodents, and it is possible to use these metacestodes for numerous purposes, primarily for supplying the antigens required for serological diagnosis of the disease.

[The evaluation of the techniques used for diagnosis of Entamoeba histolytica in stool specimens].

In this study, stool samples of 9378 patients from different clinics, who presented at the laboratory of the department of parasitology of the Dokuz Eylul University, Faculty of Medicine with several gastrointestinal complaints from January 2004 to May 2006, were examined. All stool samples were examined with the saline-Lugol method and, in suspicious cases, by trichrome staining, cultivation in Robinson's medium and/or antigen detection in stool with the Entamoeba CELISA Path kit. Forty-one cases (0.

[The distribution of intestinal parasites detected in the Dokuz Eylul University Medical Faculty Hospital between 2003 and 2004].

A retrospective evaluation of the data from 7,712 patients with gastrointestinal complaints who presented at the parasitology laboratory of the Dokuz Eylul University Medical Faculty Hospital between January 2003 and December 2004 was carried out. Fecal samples of all patients were examined using native-Lugol and the trichrome staining method after sedimentation by the fecal concentration tube. One or more parasites were detected in 495 (6.

[In vivo development of Trichinella spiralis in rats].

The causative agent is Trichinella spiralis which lives in the intestines in adult form or in skeletal muscles in larval form. After ingestion of raw or undercooked infected meat that contains larvae of trichinella, these larvae enter the blood and the lymphatic circulation. They usually settle in the skeletal muscles and develop further.

The first report of Echinococcus multilocularis strain isolation from human in Turkey.

The adult form of the small cestode Echinococcus multilocularis (E. multilocularis) is found in carnivorous animals, especially in the fox. This cestode, which is observed in the northern hemisphere of the world, is the cause of a generally fatal, progressing disease in humans, known as "alveolar echinococcosis" (AE).