DIGESTIVE MANIFESTATIONS IN HIV-AIDS INFECTION IN CHILDREN
RAMONA STOICESCU*, VIVIANA CUZIC*, ADRIANA BĂLAŞA*, ELENA GORUN**
*Universitatea „Ovidius”; **Laboratorul Prodiagnostic, Constanţa
Pathological changes in digestive tract can be induced by bacterial, viral, parasitic, fungal infections and malignancies (with high frequency in HIVinfected-AIDS in children). Oral manifestations are represented by candidiasis, pigmented nodules and ulcers. Esophageal manifestations reflect Candida albicans [...]
CONTROLLING THE VERTICAL TRANSMISSION OF PREGNANCY-ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS BY PREGNANT WOMEN AND NEONATES TESTING THROUGH MODERN METHODS AND TECHNIQUES OF SEROLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY IN ORDER TO VALIDATE A COST-EFFECTIVE ALGORITHM OF DIAGNOSIS: TOXOPLASMOSIS
D. STERIU, MARIANA POP, IONELA NEAGOE
INCDMI ”Cantacuzino” Bucureşti
Toxoplasmosis is a common oportunistic parasitic infection produced by Toxoplasma gondii sporozoan. Toxoplasmosis may be acquired [...]
PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH IN THE MAEDI VISNA ENZOOTIC OUTBREAK IN CONSTANŢA COUNTY
CRISTINA ELENA STAICU
DSVSA Constanţa
Maedi Visna is a viral disease of sheep and goats, caused by a lentivirus sheep and characterized by chronic inflammation of the lung, mammary gland, joints and central nervous system. In the present study was intended presence of parasites in sheep infected [...]
ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS IN RED FOX (VULPES VULPES L.) IN ROMANIA
S. SIKÓ BARABÁSI1, P. DEPLAZES2, V. COZMA3, C. CEICA4, E. AVRAM4,
I. BOGOLIN5, SIMONA POPESCU6, RALUCA POPESCU7
1Asociaţia ECHINO-NEWS România; 2Institutul de Parazitologie, Universitatea din Zürich, Elveţia;
3FMV USAMV Cluj-Napoca; 4DSVSA Satu Mare; 5DSVSA Bistriţa Năsăud; 6LSVSA Bihor; 7LSVSA Covasna
The occurrence of zoonotic tapworm, Echinococcus multilocularis, in definitive hosts, [...]
SARCOPTIC SCABIES TRANSMITED FROM DOGS TO HUMANS
- CASE REPORT -
DOINA PĂTRAŞCU, GEORGIANA CĂCIULĂ
DSVSA Caraş-Severin
Etiologic agents of animals mange and infestations can occur in humans when a closer cohabitation. In June 2008, a 9 week old Bichon Maltese dog was brought to our laboratory with severe and generalized pruritus and restlessness. The owner of the [...]
SPECIES FROM THE GENUS GASTEROPHILUS ARE THE MOST COMMON ENDO-PARASITES IN HORSES IN CARAŞ-SEVERIN COUNTY DOI
DOINA PĂTRAŞCU
DSVSA Caraş-Severin
Gasterophilus are parasites from Phylum Arthropoda, Order Diptera that are parasitic in the larval stage in the digestive tract of horses. Out of the 99 horses from Caraş-Severin county, killed mid-July 2006 in the slaughterhouse SC. Carolimp from [...]
STUDIES ON ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS PROTOSCOLEX EXAMINED BY INTERFERENTIAL AND POLARISED LIGHT
D. PANAITESCU
Academia de Ştiinţe Medicale
The studies on Echinococcus granulosus protoscolices structure were made for many years using vital staining with methylene blue 1‰. This method allowed a rather good visualization of structural elements of this parasitic component which occurs during the biological cycle of the [...]
EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF HOST SPECIFICITY OF CUCUMISPORA DIKEROGAMMARI (FUNGI, MICROSPORIDIA)
M. OVCHARENKO, P. WRÓBLEWSKI
Institutul de Parazitologie “W. Stefański”, Academia Poloneză de Ştiinţe, Warszawa, Polonia
Microsporidia are particularly common parasites of amphipod crustaceans, in which they are transmitted both horizontally and vertically. Cucumispora dikerogammari (Ovcharenko and Kurandina, 1987) cause emerging diseases of Ponto-Caspian invasive amphipod Dikerogammarus villosus. They [...]
EVALUATION OF BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY OF COMPLEXES OF Zn, Cu AND Ag WITH CHLORHEXIDINE
ON TRICHOMONAS INTESTINALIS
B. NIŢU*, CORINA CIOBANU**, TICUŢA NEGREANU-PÎRJOL*, RALUCA NIŢU**, PARASCHIVA ENOPIAN**, E. SCARLAT***, ELENA GORUN**
*Facultatea de Farmacie, Universitatea ”Ovidius”; **Pro Diagnostic SRL; ***Nexus Alpha SRL, Constanţa
In this study, we sought to evaluate the antiparasitic effects of complex compounds of Zn, Cu and [...]
EVALUATION OF THE RE-EMERGENCE RISK OF MOSQUITO-BORNE DISEASES IN ROMANIA
GABRIELA NICOLESCU*, VALERIA PURCĂREA-CIULACU*, AL. F. VLADIMIRESCU*, L. F. PRIOTEASA*, ELENA FALCUŢĂ*, ELENA CLAUDIA COIPAN*, GABRIELA DUMITRESCU**, DIANA POPESCU**, AURORA ALEXSE*
*INCDMI ”Cantacuzino”; **Centrul de Cercetări Medico-Militare, Bucureşti
The main diseases transmitted by mosquitoes in Romania are malaria and West Nile virus (WNV) infections. Re-emergence of WNV human [...]
