Browsing College of Health Sciences by Subject "Blastocystis"

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    • Assessing the burden of intestinal parasites affecting newly arrived immigrants in Qatar 

      Abu-Madi, Marawan A; Behnke, Jerzy M; Ismail, Ahmed; Boughattas, Sonia ( BioMed Central , 2016 , Article)
      In the last decades, the enormous influx of immigrants to industrialized countries has led to outbreaks of parasitic diseases, with enteric infections being amongst the most frequently encountered. In its strategy to control ...

    • The distribution of Blastocystis subtypes in isolates from Qatar 

      Abu-Madi, Marawan; Mahmoud, Aly; Behnke, Jerzy M.; Clark, C. Graham; Balkhy, Hanan ( BioMed Central Ltd. , 2015 , Article)
      Background: Blastocystis is a common single-celled intestinal parasite of humans and other animals comprising at least 17 genetically distinct small subunit ribosomal RNA lineages (subtypes (STs)), nine of which have been ...

    • Molecular Subtyping of Blastocystis from Diverse Animals in the United Arab Emirates. 

      AbuOdeh, Raed; Ezzedine, Sinda; Madkour, Mohamed; Stensvold, Christen Rune; Samie, Amidou; ... more authors ( Elsevier , 2019 , Article)
      The contribution of Blastocystis from non-human hosts to zoonotic transmission is only partly known. The objective of this study was to determine the distribution of Blastocystis genetic subtypes in different animal species ...