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Antibodies, Helminth/analysis , Schistosomiasis haematobia/immunology , Schistosomiasis mansoni/immunology , Animals , Antibodies, Helminth/immunology , Hemagglutination Tests/methods , Humans , Parasite Egg Count , Schistosoma haematobium/immunology , Schistosoma mansoni/immunology , Time FactorsSubject(s)
Fascioliasis/diagnosis , Larva Migrans, Visceral/diagnosis , Adult , Diagnosis, Differential , Humans , MaleSubject(s)
Schistosomiasis/complications , Urinary Bladder Neoplasms/etiology , Angola/ethnology , Chronic Disease , Cuba , Cystoscopy , Humans , Mozambique/ethnology , Schistosoma haematobium , Schistosomiasis/epidemiology , Urinary Bladder Diseases/complications , Urinary Bladder Neoplasms/diagnosis , Urinary Bladder Neoplasms/epidemiologyABSTRACT
En nuestro objetivo, presentar el informe de un paciente proveniente de Africa afectado por un gusano gigante de Guinea (Dracunculus medinensis) con localizacion unica, que constituye el primer paciente diagnosticado en Cuba en lo que va de siglo, en el Instituto de Medicina Tropical "Pedro Kouri"
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Adult , Humans , Male , Dracunculiasis , Dracunculus Nematode , CubaABSTRACT
16 african patients with diagnosed W. bancroft's filariasis admitted to Pedro Kourí Tropical Medicine Institute were subjected to a therapeutic management with levamisole: 300 mg as starting dosage, and 150 mg/day for seven days. 11 patients had been previously treated with several courses of diethylcarbamazine (DEC), but a low microfilaremia persisted in them. In the other 5 patients the only medication used was levamisole. A rapid fall in microfilaria concentrations was found from the first day of treatment on in all patients. Eventually, 14 patients (87,5%) were negative and two patients (12,5%) persisted having low microfilaremia and their concentrations lowered by 89 ad 93% respectively.
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Filariasis/drug therapy , Levamisole/therapeutic use , Adolescent , Adult , Diethylcarbamazine/therapeutic use , Drug Evaluation , Female , Humans , Levamisole/adverse effects , Male , Microfilariae/drug effects , Wuchereria bancroftiABSTRACT
Fifty patients with a diagnosis of urinary schistosomiasis who had been assisted at the "María Pía" and "Américo Boavida" Hospitals, Luanda, Popular Republic of Angola, were studied. They underwent urine parasitology, cystoscopy and descending urography. Comparative studies between radiographic findings and global results of cystoscopies and urine parasitology were conducted. A higher incidence between the second and the third life decades was evidenced. 78% of patients had vesical calcifications; 72%, urethritis; 40%, ureterohydronephrosis; 4%, excluded kidneys; 4%, vesical cancer; and 2%, lithiasis. Altered descending urograms were obtained in 94% of patients. Positive urine parasitology involved 18% of patients. Cystoscopy was positive in 100% of patients. It is concluded that the cystoscopic study is highly important in diagnosing the disease and its complications.