What's the difference between helminth and helminthiasis?
Helminth
Definition:
(n.) An intestinal worm, or wormlike intestinal parasite; one of the Helminthes.
Example Sentences:
(1) This preliminary study estimates the occurrence of concurrent helminth infection in Africa and Brazil to determine whether such an approach is justified epidemiologically.
(2) All four significantly affected helminth motor activity and were active at 200 and 150 micrograms ml-1, and three of the four were active at 100 and 50 micrograms ml-1.
(3) It is suggested that this early immune maturity may play a role in the hardiness of WAD goats and in their relative resistance to helminth and protozoan infection as compared with local sheep.
(4) The presence of helminthic invasion of the liver--opisthordiasis resulted in hepatitis, pancreatitis that would not respond to therapy in patients with ALMS.
(5) Halogenated anthelmintics were not metabolized to GSH conjugates in the helminths studied and did not inhibit GSH-S-aryltransferase activity towards chlorodinitrobenzene.
(6) The possibility that the activities observed may contribute to the elimination of peroxide in the helminth system is considered.
(7) Our results indicated that analyses of helminth communities of deer from this geographical area do not provide a useful quantification technique for determining deer condition, degree of hybridization, or levels of intraspecific competition.
(8) Much more fundamental information on helminth-bovine interactions, on helminth antigens, and on cattle antibody systems must be developed before progress on control of cattle helminths by vaccination can be meaningful.
(9) The predominant helminth was Ancylostoma duodenale, with the peak prevalence (65.2%) in patients older than 18 years, followed by Ascaris lumbricoides and Strongyloides stercoralis.
(10) Recently we described a mathematical model of the role of acquired immunity in host-helminth interactions.
(11) In addition, a number of antiparasitic agents have been shown to exert their actions through a free radical metabolism: nitro compounds used against trypanosomatids, anaerobic protozoa and helminths; crystal violet used in blood banks to prevent blood transmission of Chagas' disease; the antimalarial primaquine, chloroquinine, and quinhasou; and quinones active in vitro and in vivo against different parasites.
(12) Results of the infection of golden hamsters with different dozes of cercariae have shown that with the increase of dozes of infectious material the infection rate of helminths rises during the experimental intestinal schistosomiasis only to a definite level, which is attained by the injection of cercariae into the portal vein in dozes lower than those used for subcutaneous infection.
(13) Total parasitic helminth burdens, which were never large, were determined in order to define their seasonal incidence.
(14) Out of a total of 140 male and 114 female dogs sampled for gastro-intestinal helminth ova, 122 males (87.14%) and 101 females (88.59%) respectively were infested.
(15) Cuban mosquitoes are an important factor in the transmission of both viral and protozoal and helminthic diseases.
(16) A total of 91 free-ranging black bears (Ursus americanus) from the Peace River region of northwestern Alberta was examined for helminths.
(17) Levamisole and Banminth affected the motility of the helminth larvae with subsequent death after 24h.
(18) A significant association was also found between distance from a river and prevalence of S. haematobium (r = 0.94) and S. mansoni (r = 0.95) (P less than 0.01), but not with the other helminth infections.
(19) In addition to the known human pathogenic helminths H. nana and H. diminuta, localized foci of hookworms (Ancylostoma spp.)
(20) The observation, in parasitic protozoa and helminths, that selfing or non-obligatory mating is a common feature suggests that these processes may be strategies to overcome the cost of meiosis.
Helminthiasis
Definition:
(n.) A disease in which worms are present in some part of the body.
Example Sentences:
(1) In two grazing experiments carried out in 1982 and 1983 the prophylactic effect on gastro-intestinal helminthiasis of a single ivermectin treatment of calves 3 weeks after turnout was studied in animals which were turned out early on contaminated pasture and in calves which were turned out late on mown pasture.
(2) These results suggest that chemotherapy of helminthiasis should be integrated with nutritional supplementation.
(3) An investigation into gastrointestinal helminthiasis in human and dog population of the Kainji Lake area revealed a high prevalence of helminthiasis which may be due to lack of adequate health and veterinary facilities; crowdiness and squalid environment.
(4) The antigenic components of a Paragonimus heterotremus saline extract were revealed by SDS-PAGE and Western blot analysis using sera from 32 patients with P. heterotremus infection, 60 with other helminthiasis, and 15 normal human sera.
(5) This is of particular importance in the tropical environment, as helminthiasis possibly influences the expression of allergic reactivity.
(6) A major determinant of the transmission dynamics and morbidity characteristics of this helminthiasis is the aggregation of worm burdens in certain predisposed individuals and age groups.
(7) An epidemiological survey is conducted by spot-checks over about 10% of the population of Tortuga Island in order to estimate the prevalence of intestinal helminthiasis in that region of the Republic of Haïti, by researching the presence of eggs in faeces.
(8) The total serum IgE levels of these individuals were not significantly different from those with helminthiasis only, suggesting that there may be some form of repression of helminth-induced non-specific IgE in the presence of atopy; alternatively, allergen-related IgE may be repressed when an individual is worm-infested.
(9) In order of frequency were noted; 144 cases of bilharzia due to Schistosoma haematobium with 75 genito-urinary localisations and 51 appendicular cases, 31 cases of onchocercosis with a majority of subcutaneous nodules (17), 17 cases of digestive helminthiasis all locate in the ileo-caecal-appendix and discovered during systematic appendicular exploration, 13 cases of colitic or recto-sigmoidal amebiasis.
(10) Helminthiasis treatment is based on chemotherapy with praziquantel or oxamniquine.
(11) Alternate grazing of horses and sheep as a control measure for gastrointestinal helminthiasis was studied in three grazing experiments in 1981, 1982 and 1983.
(12) Based on gross and histological lesions, disease prevalence in this group of penguins was malaria 58%, aspergillosis 61%, enteritis 60%, helminthiasis 26%.
(13) Children with an increased number of stigmas (more than 7 in one child) are thought to be at high risk only of somatic pathology but also of the given helminthiasis and should be urgently examined for enterobiasis.
(14) The individuals of the first group were parasitologically confirmed trichinellosis patients, while those of group 2 were patients with other helminthiasis and group 3 were healthy, parasite-free individuals.
(15) For unknown epidemiological factors, this helminthiasis is rare in man in western Africa.
(16) The diagnosis of human infection by Toxocara canis relies heavily upon serological tests, the specificity of which can be inadequate in regions of endemic helminthiasis.
(17) A slight increase above the average was found for Entamoeba coli in diagnoses of giardiasis and helminthiasis.
(18) Helminthiasis: In addition to the anthelminthic treatment, sanitary prophylactic measures should be taken.
(19) The paper describes a case of hymenolepis diminuta, a relatively uncommon helminthiasis in man.
(20) It is suggested that an economical approach to detect helminthiasis and atopy in cases of eosinophilia is adopted using the methods employed here, with skin prick tests replacing the radioallergosorbent test.