{"title":"[Isospora hominis].","authors":"A. Jarpa, M. Zuloaga","doi":"10.1079/cabicompendium.78249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1079/cabicompendium.78249","url":null,"abstract":"This datasheet on Isospora hominis covers Identity, Distribution.","PeriodicalId":75607,"journal":{"name":"Boletin chileno de parasitologia","volume":"16 1","pages":"29-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44149817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Brachylaima mazzantii (Trematoda): first record in Zenaida auriculata (Aves: Columbidae).","authors":"E. A. Adriano, P. Thyssen, N. Cordeiro","doi":"10.4067/S0365-94022001000100009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4067/S0365-94022001000100009","url":null,"abstract":"Veintitres ejemplares de Zenaida auriculata Des Murs, 1847 fueron capturados en el municipio de Junqueiropolis en la region oeste del estado de Sao Paulo, Brasil. Brachylaima mazzantii (Travassos, 1927) Dollfus, 1935 fue encontrado parasitando a uno de los ejemplares examinados. Este es el primer registro de este trematodo en palomas del genero Zenaida","PeriodicalId":75607,"journal":{"name":"Boletin chileno de parasitologia","volume":"56 1-2 1","pages":"34-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70791406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Immunoblot analysis using antigen from Taenia crassiceps cysticerci in the diagnosis of swine cysticercosis.","authors":"P. Pinto, A. Vaz, P. M. Nakamura, P. M. Germano","doi":"10.4067/S0365-94022001000100010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4067/S0365-94022001000100010","url":null,"abstract":"Se utilizo la tecnica del inmunoblot para el diagnostico de la cisticercosis porcina usando un antigeno total de cisticercos de Taenia crassiceps. Fueron analizados 13 sueros del cerdo con cisticercosis, 30 sueros controles negativos y ocho sueros del cerdo con hidatidosis, asi como nueve del suino con macracantorincosis, 10 con ascaridiosis y ocho con pulmonia. El uso de este antigeno en el inmunoblot con suero de cerdos no se habia publicado previamente. El inmunoblot fue padronizado por analisis de titulacion en bloque mostrando 100.0% de sensibilidad y 96.7% de especificidad. Los peptidos especificos para la cisticercosis en orden de frecuencia fueron: 72-68 kD (100%), 16-15 kD (77%), 39-36 kD (62%), 18-17 kD (54%), 21 kD (31%), 14 kD (23%), 25-23 kD (8%), y 20-19 kD (8%). Reaccion cruzada (72-68 y 18-17 kD) solo se descubrio en una muestra (12.5%) de cerdo con hidatidosis. Debido a sus altas tasas de desempeno, el inmunoblot debe ser util para confirmar el diagnostico de cisticercosis porcina y es mas eficaz que otras pruebas empleadas para este proposito, como examen de la lengua, examen anatomopatologico y ELISA","PeriodicalId":75607,"journal":{"name":"Boletin chileno de parasitologia","volume":"56 1-2 1","pages":"36-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70791508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Larrieu, M. T. Costa, G. Cantoni, J. Labanchi, R. Bigatti, A. Pérez, D. Araya, S. Mancini, E. Herrero, G. Talmón, S. Romeo, A. Thakur
{"title":"Control program of hydatid disease in the province of Río Negro Argentina. 1980-1997.","authors":"E. Larrieu, M. T. Costa, G. Cantoni, J. Labanchi, R. Bigatti, A. Pérez, D. Araya, S. Mancini, E. Herrero, G. Talmón, S. Romeo, A. Thakur","doi":"10.4067/S0365-94022000000300003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4067/S0365-94022000000300003","url":null,"abstract":"La hidatidosis constituye un serio problema de Salud Publica en la Provincia de Rio Negro, Argentina. Los factores que han motivado esta situacion incluyen una economia rural basada en la ganaderia ovina extensiva, bajas condiciones socioculturales en una porcion importante de la poblacion rural, habitos de faenamiento domiciliario de ovinos adultos para consumo humano con entrega de las visceras resultantes del acto para consumo de los perros e infraestructura de faena en pequenas comunidades rurales altamente deficiente. Esta situacion ha promovido la instrumentacion de un programa de control basado en la desparasitacion canina sistematica con praziquantel, la vigilancia con arecolina, la educacion sanitaria, el control de faena, la legislacion y la atencion de las personas. El programa, puesto en marcha en 1980, cubrio inicialmente con acciones sistematicas 51.479 km2, alcanzandose en 1992 120,013 km2 bajo control. 11.915 canes rurales han recibido 1,870,423 comprimidos de praziquantel con coberturas que en promedio fueron del 65%. Se efectuaron 21.444 controles de materia fecal canina mediante la dosificacion con bromhidrato de arecolina, (control anual del 11,2% de los canes bajo programa). La prevalencia equinococcosica inicial era de 41,5%, siendo en 1996 del 2,9%. La hidatidosis ovina, por su parte, presenta una disminucion acentuada de la prevalencia, ubicandose en 1996 en el 5,5%. En relacion a hidatidosis humana, 1,720 casos nuevos fueron diagnosticados en toda la provincia en el periodo 1980/1996, el 31,4% de los cuales correspondieron a infectados asintomaticos, mediante encuestas serologicas o ecograficas (48.826 encuestas serologicas a poblacion escolar y a pobladores rurales adultos y 2.762 encuestas ultrasonograficas). El numero de casos humanos nuevos en el grupo de edad 0-10 anos presenta una disminucion del 77% desde la puesta en marcha del programa. Por el contrario, zonas no tratadas muestran una tendencia estable en la aparicion de casos humanos nuevos. En el periodo 1980/1986 se produjeron 581 casos nuevos en las areas bajo programa, mientras que en el periodo 1990/1996 el numero de casos nuevos fue de 275. Las encuestas ultrasonograficas en poblacion asintomatica, por su parte, arrojaron tasas de positividad del 5,5% (1984), 4,1% (1986) y 2,1% (1996). El modelo desarrollado, basado en una estructura de ejecucion descentralizada, con activa participacion comunitaria, seleccion de tecnologias sencillas y enfoque de riesgo; sustentado en el tiempo sobre la base de una firme decision politica de continuidad programatica y a su bajo costo operativo habria en tal sentido, modificado la capacidad de reproduccion del parasito.","PeriodicalId":75607,"journal":{"name":"Boletin chileno de parasitologia","volume":"55 3-4 1","pages":"49-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70791485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Hoffmann, N. Beltrão, S. Botton, B. X. Caminha, M. L. de la Rue
{"title":"Intestinal nematodes of stray dogs as zoonoses agents in D. Pedrito city (RS-Brazil).","authors":"A. Hoffmann, N. Beltrão, S. Botton, B. X. Caminha, M. L. de la Rue","doi":"10.4067/S0365-94022000000300011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4067/S0365-94022000000300011","url":null,"abstract":"La prevalencia de nematodes intestinales en perros fue el objetivo de esta investigacion, principalmente debido al riego de zoonosis. Fueran analizadas heces de 65 perros aleatoriamente capturados en las calles de la ciudad de D. Pedrito (RS-Brasil). En 43 (66,2%) del total de las muestras analizadas, fueran encontrados huevos de nematodes intestinales, como sigue: Toxocara sp. 1 (1,5%), Ancylostoma sp. 30 (46,2%), Trichuris sp. 6 (9,2%), Ancylostoma sp. / Trichuris sp. 4 (6,2%) y Ancylostoma sp. / Toxocara sp. 2 (3,0%). Los resultados indican alta prevalencia de animales infectados lo que posibilita una posterior contaminacion ambiental que es un un serio factor de riesgo para seres humanos","PeriodicalId":75607,"journal":{"name":"Boletin chileno de parasitologia","volume":"55 3-4 1","pages":"92-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70791816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new parasite of the genus Cucullaus (Nematoda: Cucullanidae) from the fish Arius thalassinus (Ruppel).","authors":"B. Lakshmi","doi":"10.4067/S0365-94022000000300015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4067/S0365-94022000000300015","url":null,"abstract":"Se describe una nueva especie parasitaria, Cucullanus baylisi, del intestino de Arius thalassinus de Bheemeli. La presente especie difiere de todas las especies conocidas reportadas de varias partes del mundo por tener un gran numero de papilas caudales sesiles. Esta especie se parece estrechamente a C. theraponi por tener elevadas estructuras de la cloaca, ausencia de ciego intestinal y ventosa preanal, pero difiere en la presencia de espiculas subiguales, estrechas aletas caudales, localizacion del anillo nervioso y papilas cervicales, tamano del gubernaculum, forma de la cola, medidas y gran numero de papilas caudales sesiles. Por lo tanto, se describe y se agrega una especie al genero Cucullanus y se la denomina Cucullanus baylisi.","PeriodicalId":75607,"journal":{"name":"Boletin chileno de parasitologia","volume":"55 3-4 1","pages":"106-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70791729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Epidemiology of human hydatidosis in the IX Region of la Araucania, Chile 1991-1998].","authors":"F. Aliaga, C. Oberg","doi":"10.4067/S0365-94022000000300004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4067/S0365-94022000000300004","url":null,"abstract":"In the region of la Araucania, located in the south of Chile (37 degrees 24'-39 degrees 34' South lat.), the economy is based in cattle raising and agriculture. The cases of human hydatidosis, mortality and notification registered in la Araucania 1991-1998 are reviewed. The rate for hydatid disease is 38.5 per 100,000 population. Liver (47.1%) and lung (40.7%) were the most affected viscera. Days in hospital, 11-20 the 56.1%. Disease in female is 51.1%. The mortality rate is 0.8 per 100,000, the most frequently affected county is Imperial. The age group 15-44 years is the most affected. The notification rate is 8.74 per 100,000 population. The rate for hydatid disease is higher than the rate of notification, then necessarily there exist a subnotification. We think that it is necessary to investigate the serological prevalence of hydatidosis in the population of the IX Region Araucania.","PeriodicalId":75607,"journal":{"name":"Boletin chileno de parasitologia","volume":"55 3-4 1","pages":"54-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70791616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hidatidosis del omóplato con localización extraósea","authors":"Jorge Sapunar Peric, M. Rayo","doi":"10.4067/s0365-94022000000300006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4067/s0365-94022000000300006","url":null,"abstract":"A forty three-year-old female, born in a rural area of southern Chile, at the age of 30 presented pain and limitation of motility of the righ shoulder. Later on, she presented an increasing of volume at the right scapular region. A radiography showed an osteolytic lesion of the scapula. In a biopsy an osseous hydatidosis was found and a hydatid cyst was extirpated from the soft tissues. Four years later, as she presented again pain and volume increasing in the same anatomical area, albendazole was given to her, and a CAT practiced revealed osteolytic lesions of the bone, several periosteal ruptures and multiple cyst in the muscles. She was submitted so surgery again in order to extirpate cyst. After two years the patient presented the same clinical manifestations and radiological and CAT images previously observed. In considering all these facts a radical surgery was decided","PeriodicalId":75607,"journal":{"name":"Boletin chileno de parasitologia","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70791666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Infestación de los párpados de un niño por phthirus pubis","authors":"H. Fernández","doi":"10.4067/s0365-94022000000100007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4067/s0365-94022000000100007","url":null,"abstract":"A clinical case of phthirus pubis infestation of the eyelids in an eight year old boy is presented. He complained of a bilateral eyelids inflammation for the last two weeks which had not healed with a daily application of a collyrium. Physical examination showed the presence of small dark spheres, of approximately 1 mm. attached to the proximal extreme of the eyelashes. A microscopical examination of these elements permitted to identify adults and eggs of P. pubis. Neither insects nor eggs were found in the scalp of the patient. Treatment consisted in the extraction of the parasite elements by means of a fine forceps after the application of liquid vaseline in the eyelashes. A total of 23 adults insects and 32 eggs was removed. The boy proceeded from a boarding school, where none of the other 27 children was found infested and stayed there form monday to friday, going home for week ends. It was impossible to contact the mother, the most probable source the patient infestation, for epidemiological and prophylactical purposes","PeriodicalId":75607,"journal":{"name":"Boletin chileno de parasitologia","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70791027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}