Bowel Parasites: Diagnosis and Treatment
A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 1830
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Parasitology and Mycology, Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom, Iran
Interests: parasitology; zoonotic diseases; inflammation; immunoregulation; immunoparasitology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Gastrointestinal parasites (GIPs), including protozoa and helminths, are still major health problems around the world, particularly in under-developed regions. GIPs are associated with malnourishment, especially in children and pregnant women. As such, immunocompromised patients (e.g., HIV/AIDS, patients with malignancies, and hemodialysis patients) are more susceptible to GIPs than healthy individuals. Hence, the diagnosis and treatment of GIPs among children, pregnant women, and immunocompromised patients remains crucial. GIPs can also alter the immune system, influencing the immune responses to other pathogens when coinfection occurs. Protozoa and helminths can differentially influence irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), while some protozoa can trigger IBS, and some helminths can mitigate the IBS course. Communication between GIPs and gut microbiota is also a new issue. There is also limited information regarding the communication between GIPs and SARS-COV-2 infection, including the clinical course, diagnosis, treatment, and outcome of GIPs among the COVID-19 patients.
This topic encompasses the latest research on the diagnosis and treatment of GIPs. We invite researchers to contribute relevant original articles, reviews, and opinion articles covering the entire field of GIPs, including (but not limited to):
- new approaches for diagnosis and treatment of GIPs;
- rapid diagnostic tools;
- molecular diagnosis;
- HIV/AIDS-associated GIPs;
- diagnosis and treatment of GIPs among pregnant women and children;
- diagnosis and treatment of GIPs among immunocompromised patient;
- soil-transmitted helminths (STHs) infection;
- communication between GIPs and gut microbiota;
- GIPs and irritable bowel syndrome;
- GIPs and COVID-19;
- coinfection of GIPs with other pathogens.
Dr. Amir Abdoli
Dr. Majid Pirestani
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- helminths
- protozoa
- Ascaris
- Trichuris
- hookworm
- Strongyloides stercoralis
- schistosomiasis
- pinworm
- hymenolepis
- Taenia saginata, Taenia solium, and Taenia asiatica
- blastocystis
- Giardia
- entamoeba histolytica/dispar
- Dientamoeba
- Cryptosporidium
- cyclospora
- isospora
- Enterocytozoon
- Encephalitozoon
