Background: Despite the increasing use of antiretroviral treatment (ART) recent data on frequency and pattern of drug resistance mutations in Ethiopia is not available. Furthermore with increasing mobility of people HIV-1 subtypes other than the predominant subtype C may likely be introduced from...

Four hundred and six AIDS patients were recruited in a retrospective study conducted in Hospital Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia during May 2001. The seroprevalence of toxoplasmosis among 406 AIDS patients was 208 (51.2%). Their age ranged from 17 to 74 years with a median of 35 years. The...

A 41-year-old human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected man with an extensive travel history developed intermittent fever and weight loss shortly after returning to UK from Uganda in 2002. Extensive and prolonged clinicopathological investigation led to the diagnosis of intercurrent acute ...

Selected plants used in Rwandan traditional medicine for the treatment of infections and/or rheumatoid diseases were investigated for antiviral activity in vitro against human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1). Of the 38 tested 80% ethanolic extracts, belonging to plants of 21 different...

Intestinal spirochaetosis in humans (HIS) is a condition defined by the presence of a layer of spirochaetes attached by one cell end to the colorectal epithelium. The pathologic significance of HIS is uncertain, but it has been linked to chronic diarrhoea and other abdominal complaints. Two...

A review of published reports on the prevalence of M. bovis infection in human populations is presented. The nomenclature and definition of M. bovis is briefly discussed. The association between M. bovis and tuberculosis in humans is described as well as its virulence, global incidence and...

Oocysts of Cryptosporidium, from the faeces of a naturally infected dog and from an HIV-infected human, were identified as the previously reported canine genotype of Cryptosporidium parvum, hereafter referred to as Cryptosporidium canis sp. nov. Also among the oocysts from the dog, a trace amount...

Cryptosporidium meleagridis is a common cause of cryptosporidiosis in birds. In addition, recent reports have described the parasite as an aetiological agent of cryptosporidiosis in both immunocompetent and immunocompromised humans. Therefore, it is important to genetically characterize isolates of ...

During a study of intestinal parasitic infections in human immunodeficiency virus-positive patients, a parasite belonging to the phylum Myxozoa, recently described from human samples, was identified in one sample. This sample was collected from a 49-year-old heterosexual male with chronic watery...

A review of new and re-emerging viruses, other microorganisms and aspects of the diseases they cause is presented. The viruses mentioned include small round structured viruses, rotaviruses, astroviruses, parvovirus B19, Ebola virus, Bunyaviruses, human T-cell leukaemia viruses, human...