An Attempt to Adapt Strongyloides ratti to the Mouse

Anthelmintic studies: II. A double entero-nemacidal anthelmintic test covering a wide range of activities

“…As a strict requirement for an effective anthelmintic is that it should act in a single dose the test has only been used with a single high dose of the speculative compounds tested. In this connexion, the technique of Brackett & Bliznick (1949) involved the feeding of drug diets to mice infected with Nippostrongylus but by their technique even such an effective anthelmintic as tetrachlorethylene was more or less without effect. One wonders what would be the practical value of even an effective drug that had to be administered over a long period in the diet.…”

Parasitic Diseases as the Cause of Death of Prisoners of War during the Korean War (1950-1953)

“…3.6%, Clonorchis sinensis 7.1%, Metagonimus yokogawai 1.6%, Enterobius vermicularis by scotch tape anal swab 20.2%, Entamoeba histolytica 5%, Entamoeba coli 27.1%, Endolimax nana 8.3%, and Giardia lamblia 3.5%. From the same study during the same time, 457 blood samples were screened for parasites; 3.3% were positive for vivax malaria, and 2 of 35 blood specimens from the island of Jeju-do (5.7%) were positive for Wuchereria malayi (now Brugia malayi ) [9]. …”