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Viral hepatitis is a global health care challenge due to its worldwide distribution, chronic persistence, complications, and high prevalence with unchecked conditions in areas like sub-Saharan Africa. A high proportion of asymptomatic infections allows serious complications and p…
background Hepatitis B and C virus infections are serious blood borne diseases with global health concern particularly in developing countries. The association between survey participant’s knowledge, attitude, and practices (KAP) about HBV and HCV infection is rarely studied, pa…
Background Viral hepatitis has become a universally established health care challenge due to its worldwide distribution chronic persistence, complications, and high prevalence with unchecked conditions in areas like sub-Saharan Africa. A high proportion of asymptomatic infection…
Background Giardia and Cryptosporidium are common parasitic diarrhea agents of children contributing to childhood morbidity and mortality in developing countries. Major risk factors, based on the international literature, are expected to include domestic animals, fresh vegetable…
Background: Raw (fresh) vegetables as part of a healthy diet is an important key to help boost immune health. However, they could also have a negative impact on humans. Vegetables, especially those that are consumed raw and not properly washed, have been the major way for the tra…
A rapid and inexpensive method is described for accurate and reproducible counting and manipulating small numbers of Cryptosporidium oocysts and Giardia cysts. From a suspension of oocysts or cysts at concentration from 1000 to 5000/mL (1–5/μL), replicate 5 μL droplets are micro…
Analysis of water samples for Cryptosporidium oocysts and Giardia cysts is a specialised and demanding pursuit. Understanding and evaluating data resulting from such analyses is equally specialised and complicated by the most common result—not finding any of the target organisms.…