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.

[Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia in a Patient with Interstitial Lung Disease].

Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) caused by Pneumocystis jirovecii (P. jirovecii) is an opportunistic pulmonary infection that occurs in immunocompromised patients. Here, a 49-year-old female patient who was admitted to our hospital with respiratuary distress and whose bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid specimens had P.

[Investigation of Pneumocystis jirovecii colonization in patients with pulmonary diseases].

Objective: The detection of Pneumocystis jirovecii or its DNA in respiratory samples from individuals who do not have signs or symptoms of pneumonia has been defined as colonization. In this study, we aimed to investigate the prevalence of P. jirovecii colonization in patients with various lung diseases.

[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.

[Microsporidium spp. infection in an immunocompromised child diagnosed by polymerase chain reaction].

Microsporidium spp. may lead to a variety of clinical pictures like sinusitis, keratoconjunctivitis, hepatitis, myositis, peritonitis, nephritis, encephalitis and pneumonia in case of immune deficiencies. In this report, a case of diarrhea due to Microsporidium spp.

[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.

[Biosafety profile of laboratory workers at three education hospitals in Izmir, Turkey].

The laboratory personnel in hospitals are at risk in terms of transmission of various infectious diseases. The aim of this study is to evaluate the knowledge, behavior and attitude of the health personnel who work in one university and two state hospitals in Izmir, Turkey, about biosafety. The study is an observational-sectional study.

[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.

[Short communication: investigation of intestinal coccidia in patients with diarrhea].

The intestinal protozoa have been increasingly identified in immunocompromised patients. In this study, stool samples of 554 patients [288 male, 266 female; 11 (2%) of them were immunocompromised] with diarrhea were examined between June 2004 and June 2005 in the Parasitology Laboratory of Dokuz Eylul University Hospital, Izmir, Turkey, in order to investigate the prevalence of intestinal coccidia. After formalin-ethyl acetate sedimentation procedure, the samples were examined by both native lugol and Kinyoun acid-fast staining methods for the detection of Cryptosporidium, Cyclospora and Isospora spp.

[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.

[Evaluation of patients presenting with a suspicion of cystic echinococcosis to the serology laboratory of the Parasitology Department of Dokuz Eylül University Medical Faculty].

Cystic echinococcosis (CE) is a zoonosis, caused by the metacestode form of Echinococcus granulosus. The diagnosis of CE is difficult using the clinical features of the disease and it depends on the combination of serological methods aimed at determining the specific antibody response and on imaging techniques that support the serology. In this study, 465 patients who presented with a suspicion of CE to the serology laboratory of the Parasitology Department of Dokuz Eylul University between January 2003 and June 2004 were evaluated.

[Use of the Western Blot assay in the diagnosis of trichinosis.].

Trichinosis is a worldwide parasitic disease acquired by the consumption of raw or uncooked meat containing encysted larva. The western blot (WB) technique has an important role in the serological diagnosis of trichinosis as a confirmatory test. In our study, IgG antibodies specific for Trichinella were found in the sera of 25 patients with trichinosis seropositivity by In house ES ELISA.

[Case report: taeniasis, is it a cause of psychiatric and neural symptoms?].

The most frequent symptom of taeniasis is the discharge of proglottids (93.7%). Gravid proglottids which do not have uterine pores are damaged when they exit the anus by their movement.

[An imported case of mixed malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium ovale.].

Malaria caused by Plasmodium species is an important parasitic infection in Turkey as in the rest of the world. Malaria cases originating in our country are caused by P. vivax; those caused by other Plasmodium spp.

[Bioterrorism, parasites as potential bioterrorism agents and biosecurity studies].

A variety of agents have a potential risk for being use as weapons of biological terrorism. However, the use of parasites as bioterrorism agents has not received so much attention. Parasites could contribute to the installation of fear in human population upon intentional addition to their food and water supplies.

[Evaluation of three different ELISA kits for the diagnosis of trichinellosis].

Human trichinellosis caused by Trichinella spp. is a widely distributed parasitic disease, acquired by ingestion of undercooked or raw meat containing larvae of the parasite. In January 2004, a trichinellosis outbreak following the consumption of raw minced meat ball, occurred in Izmir, Turkey.

[Application of in-house enzyme immunoassay and indirect hemagglutination methods for the serologic diagnosis of cystic echinococcosis].

It is necessary to use methods that are not only fast and easily applicable, but also safe in the diagnosis of cystic echinococcosis (CE) and monitoring the treatment. In the present study, we investigated the presence of specific Echinococcus granulosus antibodies by in-house enzyme immunoassay (ELISA) and indirect hemagglutination (IHA) tests in the sera of 64 patients who were surgically confirmed to have CE, 10 patients with various lung and liver malignancies and 20 patients with Hymenolepis nana infections. Of the 64 CE patients, 52 (81.