Background and objectives: Food borne diseases are a global public health problem food handlers play major role for the transmission of diseases. This study was aimed at exploring prevalence intestinal parasites, Salmonella typhi carrier rate risk factors infection with typhoid and/or parasites among Ibb city, Yemen. Subjects methods: A cross sectional survey conducted three hundred fifteen han...

Purpose To describe a geographically rare case of ophthalmic dirofilariasis. Observations An 81-year-old male of good socioeconomic status living in the state of Michigan in the United States, presented to the eye clinic with a painful red left eye. He had not traveled outside of the state of Michigan in over three years. He was found to have a 7 cm long subconjunctival roundworm, which was u...

In this review recent advances made in the field of human leishmaniasis have been discussed with special emphasis on the parasite, and various serological and molecular methods of diagnosing the infection. The article also reviews various modes of parasite transmission including vector borne, blood transfusion, needle sharing, sexual and person-to-person. Microbiological methods including the b...

Arthropods harbor a diverse array of microbes that profoundly influence many aspects of host biology, including vector competence. Additionally, symbionts can be engineered to produce molecules that inhibit pathogens. Due to their intimate association with the host, microbes have developed strategies that facilitate their transmission, either horizontally or vertically, to conspecifics. These a...

BACKGROUND Vector-borne infectious diseases are a significant cause of human and animal mortality and morbidity. Modeling studies predict that changes in climate that accompany global warming will alter the transmission risk of many vector-borne infectious diseases in different parts of the world. Global warming will also raise sea levels, which will lead to an increase in saline and brackish w...

Food safety is one of the main objectives related to public health protection. It is expected to prevent, minimize or eliminate risks on different stages of the food chain and in the meantime maintain, provide, and distribute high-quality food to meet consumer demands. However, millions of cases of food-borne diseases occur every year worldwide (Martinović et al., 2016). Their global impact on ...

Parasitoses are a large group of infectious diseases with diverse host assemblages and transmission patterns. In Japan, after World War II, the nationwide campaign which was enforced by the new public health knowledge against parasitic diseases successfully controlled the classical soiltransmitted parasitoses such as ascariasis, trichuriasis and hookworm diseases. Some other diseases such as do...

the aim of this study was to detect and differentiate theileria annulata and t. lestoquardi (hirci) by pcr. members of the genus theileria are tick-borne hemoprotozoan parasites those cause fatal and enervating diseases of cattle and sheep in iran . in order to develop a specific method for detecting and identification of theileria species, specific primers from the surface protein (sp) sequenc...

Trypanosoma cruzi, a blood-borne parasite, is the etiological agent of Chagas disease. T. cruzi trypomastigotes, the infectious life cycle stage, can be detected in blood of infected individuals using PCR-based methods. However, soon after a natural infection, or during the chronic phase of Chagas disease, the number of parasites in blood may be very low and thus difficult to detect by PCR. To ...

Insect-borne diseases are responsible for severe mortality and morbidity worldwide. As control of insect vector populations relies primarily on the use of insecticides, the emergence of insecticide resistance as well to unintended consequences of insecticide use pose significant challenges to their continued application. Novel approaches to reduce pathogen transmission by disease vectors are be...