El surgimiento del nuevo coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) a finales 2019 en Wuhan, China trajo consigo la aparición de nueva enfermedad respiratoria COVID-19, misma que ha cobrado vida miles personas todo el mundo y ocasionado diversas problemáticas económicas sociales. Su transmisión inicial animales seres humanos (zoonosis) aún es un misterio. Las acciones para su solución radican concebir salud los ...

Leptospirosis is an acute infectious disease that affects both humans and animals (zoonosis). This caused by the Leptospira species, a bacterium with 250 serovar variations which thus detecting its cases prominently challenging. In Indonesia, regarded as iceberg phenomenon since such challenge prevents this from being diagnosed in clinical practice, despite study data indicating significant per...

Melioidosis is a zoonosis caused by the bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei, saprophyte bacteria that widely found in environment. This causes various animal species with clinical manifestations vary depending on species, but generally fever, depression, weight loss, respiratory sign, lameness, swelling of joints, and potentially death. The incidence humans has been reported many countries it e...

Scrub typhus, an infectious disease caused by a bacterium transmitted “chigger” mites, constitutes public health problem in Thailand. Predicting epidemic peaks would allow implementing preventive measures locally. This study analyses the predictability of time series incidence scrub typhus aggregated at provincial level. After stationarizing series, evaluation Hurst exponents indicates province...

Orf is a rare viral zoonosis due to Parapoxvirus infection. Transmission humans occurs through contact with infected goats and sheep. It may be complicated by fever, lymphangitis, lymphadenopathy, bacterial infection, erythema multiforme. Only several cases of autoimmune bullous dermatoses have been described. Bullous pemphigoid secondary an orf was found in ten patients. Herein, we report one ...

Mycobacterium leprae, the aetiological agent of leprosy in humans, gives rise to a chronic granulomatous disease that affects primarily the skin and peripheral nerves, and secondarily some internal organs such as the testis and the eye; viscera are seldom involved. Depending on host resistance, leprosy may present as a benign disease (tuberculoid leprosy) or as a malignant disease (lepromatous ...

background: q fever is an important widespread reemerging zoonosis. the presence of coxiella burnetii in 100 tick-infested dogs was assessed in this study. methods: the blood samples from 100 referred dogs were acquired and evaluated by nested-pcr. results: c. burnetii was detected in 11 out of 100 (11%) blood samples. most of the positive dogs were kept outdoor and fed on raw diet. based on ou...