A Comprehensive Review on Major Zoonotic Parasites From Dogs and Cats

Zoonotic diseases are significant causes of morbidity and mortality in humans animals, including birds. These transmitted through several routes reported developing developed nations the world. The dogs cats also act as reservoirs a large number parasitic zoonoses, toxoplasmosis, giardiasis, leishmaniasis, toxocariasis, cryptosporidiosis. roles pet animals (cats dogs) transmitting human infections have been recognized worldwide. Since most these parasites an oral-fecal transmission cycle, zoonotic agents could occur indirect contact with animal feces, contaminated water, food, or direct infected animals. In addition, soil is important route for pathogens. socioeconomically disadvantaged communities, poor levels hygiene overcrowding, together lack veterinary attention awareness, exacerbate risks disease transmission. Traditional husbandry inadequate management practices, mixing wild farm unrestricted movement living pastoralists their can all contribute to development diseases. Therefore, veterinarians thought be on ‘front line’ prevention animal-associated infections.