Echinostome parasites of aquatic birds in Assiut Governorate, Egypt

Hypoderaeum conoideum [Bloch, 1782] was redescribed from the small intestine of the shoveler, Spatula clypeata and the teal, Anas crecca crecca. The present material differs in the number of collar spines and the position of the testes which are considered by the present author to be variable and of little taxonomic importance. Spatula clypeata is a new host record for the parasite. Echinoparyphium aegyptiacus sp. nov. is described from the small intestine of the coot, Fulica atra atra, as having 45 collar spines

Echinostome parasites of aquatic birds in Assiut G genus echinostoma [Rudolphi, 1909]

Four different Echinostoma parasites were described; three from the Egyptian coot, Fulica atra atra and one from the Egyptian moorhen, Gallinula chloropus chloropus. The accurate taxonomic position of the present worms was left for further studies particularly the life cycle

pathogenicity of a free living amoeba in Assiut, Egypt

The free living amoeboflagellate, Naegleria fowleri, have been isolated from different water canals in Assiut area during summer and winter. Intranasal inoculation of N. fowleri in mice produces primary meningoencephalitis lesion in some of them. The results were discussed

Evaluation of the therapeutic effect of diethylcarbamazine [hetrazan] in bancroftian filariasis using various technique in upper Egypt

Diethylcarbamazine [Hetrazan], in a dosage schedule of 6 mg/kg body weight daily for 10 days was used in a filarious area, El-Nikhila village, in Assiut Governorate. Ultra-low density of Wuchereria bancrofti microfilariae was achieved in Hetrazan treated patients. Both standard thick blood film slide method and counting chamber techniques were unsatisfactory in determining the infection in five randomly selected treated patients, with ultra-low level of parasitaemia, while xenodiagnosis technique proved most reliable in such condition. More light was thrown on the approach of eradication of lymphatic filariasis in Upper Egypt