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Straight Up Conversation: LEAP Innovations CEO Phyllis Lockett (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({ google_ad_client: "ca-pub-7809416531215247", enable_page_level_ads: true }); Phyllis Lockett is CEO of LEAP Innovations, which runs an 18-month program preparing educators in 140 Chicago schools how to execute personalized learning. Before beginning LEAP, Phyllis was establishing president and CEO of New Schools...

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Trichinella spiralis Historical aspect   In 1835, a man died of tuberculosis in St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. Dr Paget, a first-year student, carried out the autopsy and observed fine hard white inclusions in the muscles. Similar inclusions had been observed by doctors from time to time in the past, but were attributed to...

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BLOOD AND TISSUE NEMATODES INTRODUCTION Filariasis is caused by nematodes (roundworms) that inhabit the lymphatics and subcutaneous tissues. Eight main species infect humans. Three of these are responsible for most of the morbidity due to filariasis: Wuchereria bancrofti and Brugia malayi cause lymphatic filariasis, and Onchocerca volvulus causes onchocerciasis (river blindness). The other...

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  Life cycle of Human Hookworms Pathology of Infection.      The Pathology associated with hookworm infections may be divided roughly into two areas. Firstly the pathology associated with the presence of the adult parasite in the intestine, and secondly the pathology associated with the penetration of, and migration of the larval worms within...

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The human hookworms   introduction     The hookworms belong to the Order Strongylida, a large order, and of great interest as it contains many important pathogens of man and domesticated animals. This order is further subdivided into three Superfamilies, the Strongyloidea (the hookworms in man), and two related groups, the Superfamily ‘Trichostrongyloidea’, intestinal...

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SOIL TRANSMITTED HELMINTHS  INTRODUCTION    Soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infection is highly endemic in tropical and subtropical areas of sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America, where up to 2 billion people have active infections. STH disease has mainly remained neglected by the global health community because the people most affected are among the most...

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GENERAL FEATURES AND LIFE CYCLES OF NEMATODES INTRODUCTION Nematode infections in humans include ascariasis, trichuriasis, hookworm, enterobiasis, strongyloidiasis, filariasis, and trichinosis, among others. The phylum Nematoda, also known as the roundworms, is the second-largest phylum in the animal kingdom, encompassing up to 500,000 species. Members of Nematoda are elongated, with bilaterally symmetric bodies...

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