The objective of this study is to prospectively evaluate the seroepidemiology maedi-visna (MV) infections in intensively reared dairy sheep. A total 407 purebred Chios and Lacaune ewes from four farms were surveyed for two consecutive years serologically tested semiannually with an indirect ELISA at pre-mating pre-lambing. farms’ structure management practices similar animal traits (age, breed,...

Background: It has been seen that epidemiology and clinical presentation of dengue infection differs significantly across geographical areas. The present study was done to clinico-hematological profile patients with fever in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra.Methods: This prospective observational conducted at a tertiary level teaching hospital Mumbai. All were observed over their entire duration stay (...

autoimmune myasthenia gravis (mg) is a unique disease among all autoimmune disorders in two ways. first, there are a wide range of sub-specialties involved in the diagnosis and management of mg; secondly mg is an autoimmune disorder whose autoimmunity is well established. in this paper i will cover these topics: history and epidemiology of mg followed by a brief overview on physiology of neurom...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections and HIV-HBV and HCV coinfection are major causes of chronic liver disease worldwide. Testing and diagnosis is the gateway for access to both treatment and prevention services, but there remains a large burden of undiagnosed infection globally. We review the global epidemiology, key challenges in the current...

Brucellosis is one of the major zoonotic diseases that affect several domestic animals, wild animals and also marine mammals. Though there is no specific Brucella sp. that can affect horses, B. abortus and B. suis can affect horses naturally and B. canis experimental infection has also been reported in equines. Brucellosis in equines is characterized by two conditions namely Poll evil and fistu...

The horse is considered an aberrant host for the nematode parasite Trichinella spiralis, and many aspects of the biology and epidemiology of Trichinella infection in the horse are poorly understood. It has been reported that experimentally-infected horses produce a transient serological response to infection and that muscle larvae are cleared more rapidly than in parasite-adapted hosts such as ...

A study of 371 women (261 asymptomatic and 110 symptomatic subjects with clinical PID) was performed to detect the presence of Chlamydia trachomatis (C.t.) and to correlate the serological markers against this microrganism, such as antibody to chlamydial hsp60 (Ab-Chsp60) and different levels of IgG, IgM and IgA, with epidemiology, pathology, sexual habits, age, diagnostic methods in the groups...

Filoviruses, including Ebolavirus and Marburgvirus, pose significant threats to public health and species conservation by causing hemorrhagic fever outbreaks with high mortality rates. Since the first outbreak in 1967, their origins, natural history, and ecology remained elusive until recent studies linked them through molecular, serological, and virological studies to bats. We review the ecolo...

Brucellosis is a complicated disease in terms of epidemiology, diagnosis and control. Although many serological tests and new automated blood culture techniques have been developed to diagnose brucellosis, there are still significant problems in the diagnosis of the disease. The present work aimed to evaluate the diagnostic yield of the two main serological tests used for diagnosis of brucellos...