Article history: Received on: 05/01/2015 Revised on: 22/01/2015 Accepted on: 07/02/2015 Available online: 27/02/2015 The purpose of current study was to compare the influence on sanitary hygienic parameters of water in recirculation aquaculture systems (RAS) using natural zeolite and macrophytes Lemna minor and Elodea canadensis like a part of its filtration system with the microbiological indi...

Hospital sanitary microbiology laboratories perform the sanitary inspection, especially in high-risk wards, control hospital flora contamination, which is often multiresistant, perform the periodic monitoring of staff at risk and the examination of persons outside the institution. Data on chemotherapy, germs and tested samples from a sanitary microbiology laboratory revealed specific issues. Th...

Acute gastroenteritis is probably the most important public health problem. The association of flies as mechanical vectors in transmission of the causative agent is evident due to their behavioural characteristics which ensure their contact with food and wastes of man and animals. The present study was of six months duration from 1 st June, 2008 to 30 th November, 2008, 7200 flies were used for...

The provisions of the World Trade Organisation Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures are designed to extend the liberalisation of trade, without increasing the risk to public, animal or plant health. The international standards set by the Office International des Epizooties (OIE) will be used as a benchmark by World Trade Organisation panels and committees when eva...

The present study was aimed at determining the relationship between the operation of municipal landfills and the fluctuations of bacterial indicators of the sanitary quality of soil. Soil samples were collected at monthly intervals from May 2010 to April 2011 at ten sampling sites located on the premises and in vicinity of the reclaimed Municipal Landfill Site (MLS) and the new Municipal Solid ...

Quaternary prevention consists in the identification of persons at risk of excessive medicalization and their protection against new unnecessary interventions, avoiding iatrogenic damages. Here, we argue about the importance of quaternary prevention in specific primary and secondary prevention. The recent great development of preventive medicine, biomedicalization of risks and their treatment a...