opisthorchiasis/carbohydrate

Chronic infections with the liver flukes Opisthorchis viverrini and Clonorchis sinensis affect over 30 million people in southeastern Asia. With ongoing exposure, reinfection readily occurs following curative treatment and cumulative infections result in significant morbidity and a predisposition to

The impact of antihelminthic therapy on gastrointestinal function was studied in 150 patients with psoriasis concurrent with chronic opisthorchiasis, 100 patients with psoriasis without helminthiasis, and 30 healthy individuals. A fractional study of gastric secretion was conducted in its both

The biochemical parameters of hepatobiliary system functions were studied in patients with opisthorchiasis and concomitant diseases, such as chronic viral hepatitis concurrent with chronic opisthorchiasis, as well as Ixodes tick-borne borreliosis in the presence of the same invasion. Although the

The study was undertaken to characterize small intestinal absorption in patients with psoriasis concurrent with chronic opisthorchiasis. Sixty patients with psoriasis concurrent with chronic opisthorchiasis, 45 patients with psoriasis without helminthiasis, and 15 healthy individuals were examined.

To study the impact of Opisthorchis infestation on the upper digestive tract and small bowel in chronic inflammatory bowel diseases, the authors examined 164 patients with inflammatory bowel diseases, including 71 patients with ulcerative colitis and 45 with Crohn's disease without parasitosis and

To characterize the small intestine clinically and functionally in psoriasis combination with chronic opisthorhiasis, 60 patients were examined with this combination, 45 with psoriasis but no helminthosis, 30 patients with chronic opisthorchiasis and 15 healthy subjects. Small intestinal absorption

Analysis of the stool samples is an essential part of routine diagnostics of the helminthes infections. However, the standard methods such Kato and Kato-Katz utilize only a fraction of the information available. Here we present a method based on the nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR)