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Objective: Mostly fecal-oral transmitted intestinal parasites maintain their importance in terms of public health due to causing severe clinical conditions and may even cause death. Mainly affecting young children, intestinal parasites are a health problem that affects the entire community. Abdominal pain, diarrhea, growth retardation and anemia as well as many other important symptoms can be observed in the clinic presentation of those with intestinal parasites. Lack of sanitation seems to be the most important factor in the spread of intestinal parasites; socioeconomic status of the society, climate, age, gender as well as other factors also predispose to the occurrence of these infections. In this study, the distribution of intestinal parasites of the patients who admitted to Erciyes University Faculty of Medicine Parasitology Laboratory were evaluated. Stool samples from 20.698 patients and anal band samples from 455 patients were examined. Method: Fecal samples were examined by nativelugol, sedimentation, trichrome and modified acid-fast staining methods. Enterobius vermicularis eggs were determined by cellophane tape method. Results: One or more intestinal parasites were found in 3.261 (15.4%) cases and 1.717 (52.65%) of these patients were males and 1.544 (47.34%) of them were female. According to the results, the most common parasites, 2.732 (13.1%) were Blastocystis hominis, 307 (1.48%) were Entamoeba coli and 242 (1.17%) were Giardia intestinalis respectively. Conclusion: The results of our study were observed to be consistent with epidemiological studies, which have been previously made in Kayseri. However, the incidence of intestinal parasites was observed to decrease when compared with the previous epidemiological data. Positive developments in the environmental factors and socioeconomic levels will tend to reduce the incidence of intestinal parasites further. Intestinal parasites still maintain their importance as a major public health problem in our province. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Acanthamoeba species are vision-threatening agents by causing cornea infections known as Acanthamoeba keratitis. A 5 year-old kid with the complaints of erythema, eyelid edema, inflammation, limitation of eye movements in the right eye, and having no history of wearing contact lenses or trauma, was diagnosed of Acanthamoeba conjunctivitis through laboratory examinations in the Ophthalmology clinic. The visual sharpness of the patient improved after the treatment. A 44 year-old female patient suffering from pain, stinging, irritation, and inability to see in the left eye with the history of wearing contact lenses or trauma was diagnosed of Acanthamoeba keratitis through laboratory examinations. The agent was isolated and identified as "A. castellani" in the Genotype "T2". Examination of the left eye on the 15th day of treatment indicated that all complaints disappeared except for the cataract originated visual loss. However, the first diagnosis of Acanthamoeba keratitis appeared in the literature on a case with no history of wearing contact lenses and trauma it is found to be attention grabbing. We think that Acanthamoeba should not be ignored among microbial agents that cause eye infection with or without trauma and contact lens usage history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: The aim of this study, the investigation of the effects of nutrition with genetically modified organisms on sex hormones and the changes of these effects with stimuli such as auditory and exercise. Methods: In the study, the eight-week 32 female and 32 male Spraque Dawley rats. Rats randomly divided into eight groups; control, genetically modified organisms, auditory stimulation, exercise, genetically modified organism+auditory stimulus, genetically modified organism+exercise, genetically modified organism+auditory stimulus+exercise groups. Genetically modified organism (GMO) groups were fed a mixture containing 40 ml of 50% corn syrup per day, auditory stimulus (AUDI) groups were listened Segah and Huseyni maqam with a sound height of 55 decibels for 60 minutes per day, while exercise groups (EX) were swam in an 80 cm long 40 cm wide pool. After the experimental procedure, changes in the subjects' body weights and sex hormone levels were reported. While it was found that body weights showed a significant increase in all rats subjected to GMO; and the high significant increase was observed in female rats. Results: In the study of lactate levels, a significant increase was observed in male rats compared to the control group in the GMO, EX+AUDI and GMO+EXC groups, but a decrease was observed in the GMO+AUDI group compared to the GMO group; in female rats of EXE groups, significant increases in the blood lactate levels were observed. In the testosterone levels, a decrease was observed in the AUDI group in male rats compared to other groups; a decrease was observed in the AUDI+EXC group in female rats compared to the control group. While there was no significant difference between all groups in estrogen levels on male rats, significant decreases were observed in female rats in exercise groups and in the GMO+AUDI group compared to CONT, while there was an increased between AUDI+EXC and GMO group. Although there was no statistically significant difference among all groups in female rats. Conclusion: All results show that GMO is highly effective in weight gain and causes changes in the hormonal levels. It auditory and exercise stimuli may be effective in hormonal changes caused by GMO nutrition. However, more work is needed to elucidate the mechanism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]