Epidemiological data on food-borne parasitic zoonoses in Japan is obscure because of the lack of legislated registration system for the incidence of such diseases. Attempts were made to draw rough estimates of the current status of food-borne parasitic diseases in Japan by gathering the annual incidence of each disease by literal survey and personal communications. In addition, parasitic diseas...

1MD, PhD; Professor, Division of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Hospital Universitário Evangélico de Curitiba, Curitiba, PR, Brazil 2MD; Division of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Hospital Universitário Evangélico de Curitiba, Curitiba, PR, Brazil 3MPharm, Hospital Universitário Evangélico de Curitiba, Curitiba, PR, Brazil 4PhD, Department of Infectious Diseases and LIM-54, Universidade...

Infections and parasitic diseases amount to 45% of inpatient and 33% of outpatient treatment in 3 major peripheral hospitals of the Ivory Coast. If true parasitic diseases were excluded, and if meningitis and pneumonia were counted, the infectious diseases amount to about 45% of all consultations in hospitals. About 4 million registered diagnoses are made each year in the peripheral health cent...

Emerging animal parasitic diseases are reviewed and appropriate strategies for efficient monitoring and surveillance in Nigeria are outlined. Animal and human parasitic infections are distinguished. Emerging diseases have been described as those diseases that are being recognised for the first time or diseases that are already recorded but their frequency and/or geographic range is being increa...

Five exotic carp species viz. Hypophthalmichthys molitrix, Cyprinus carpio var. specularis, Cyprinus idellus, Cyprinus carpio var. communis and Puntius gonionotus were examined for parasitic diseases out of which 793 fishes were infected by 3 protozoan (Trichodina sp., Ichthyophthirius sp. and Chilodonella sp.), 2 monogenean (Gyrodactylus sp., Dactylogyrus sp.), 2 trematoda (Gorgotrema sp., Met...

Parasitic diseases represent one of the most important issues in public health. More than 20 million people are infected by diseasecausing parasites. Parasites represent a broad group of eukaryotic organisms that can cause severe disease in human populations, including malaria, leishmaniasis, Chagas disease, Schistosomiasis and Filariasis. Closely related to these parasitic diseases are geograp...

The diagnosis and treatment of parasitic diseases has undergone major changes because of increased awareness and technological advances that now allow for more rapid and accurate diagnosis of parasitic diseases. These advances are critically important for the continuing diagnosis of these infections as there has been a steady decline in the quantity and quality of laboratory technicians who are...