canine babesiosis is an important worldwide, tick-born disease caused by apicomplexan hemoparasitic from genus babesia. the aim of the present survey was to identify the current state of babesia infection in urban and rural dogs in ahvaz district, southwest of iran. for this reason, 200 rural dogs from 5 village around ahvaz and 200 urban dogs (stratified random sampling) referred to the vet...

alter a definition of the condition of larva migrants and a description of the types of helminthes which cause this affection in man a brief account of the pathology and clinical manifestations of both visceral and coetaneous larva migrants is given. studies undertaken in iran have revealed the presence of most of 1ihe animal helminthes which cause coetaneous larva migrants of the parasites whi...

The present study was conducted to find out the prevalence of Toxocara canis in Lahore, Pakistan and its effect on hemogram in dogs. For this purpose a total of 200 fecal and blood samples from dogs (n=100 stray dogs, n=100 pet dogs) were collected and examined. The results revealed the prevalence of Toxocara canis as 49% and 30% in stray and pet dogs, respectively. A significant decrease was r...

A total of 4190 blood smears were collected between January and December 2007 from dogs exhibiting clinical signs of haemoprotozoan infections. On blood smear examination 485 blood smears were found to be positive for various haemoprotozoa and rickettsia. Among the positive cases , the majority of haemoprotozoans identified were Babesia gibsoni 84.9%, followed by Ehrlichia canis 6 %, Hepatazoan...

INTRODUCTION Toxocara canis is an ascarid parasite of the small intestine of dogs that causes visceral larva migrans in humans. METHODS With the aim of demonstrating the effectiveness of the fungus Pochonia chlamydosporia on Toxocara canis eggs under laboratory conditions, a trial was set up in Petri dishes with 2% agar-water. RESULTS There was ovicidal activity of 43.8% (p < 0.01) in the t...

We demonstrated that Demodex canis was transferred to skin xenografts of a dog and a hamster onto severe combined immunodeficiency mice. After the transfer of mites, the number of eggs, larvae, nymphs and adult mites per gram of canine and hamster xenografts increased, whereas no live mites were detected on murine allograft. These results indicate that D. canis proliferates in hair follicles of...

This review summarizes data from the numerous investigations from the beginning of the last century to the present. The studies concerned the main issues of the morphology, the life cycle, hosts and localization of Hepatozoon canis (phylum Apicomplexa, suborder Adeleorina, family Hepatozoidae). The characteristic features of hepatozoonosis, caused by Hepatozoon canis in the dog, are evaluated. ...