Epidemiological investigations on Fasciola hepatica fasciolasis were carried out from July 2004 to June 2005 in the Gafsa oases (Tunisia) after the detection of a human case. Three habitats were studied: one in El Gsar and two in Ain Soltan. The prevalence of human infection was 6.6%. The presence of the parasite was detected through serology in 14.3% of cattle, 35% of sheep and 68.4% of goats....

BACKGROUND AATD is one of the most common inherited disorders in the World. However, it is generally accepted that AATD in North African populations is not a risk factor for lung and/or liver disease, based on a number of small studies. We therefore planned a screening study for detection of AATD in patients with OLD in a cohort of patients from Kairouan in central Tunisia. METHODS One hundre...

After a presentation of the complexity to apply the fuzzy logic on industrial systems, we present the issues involved in the application of the fuzzy logic particularly the way to approach a control or classification problem. In order to deal with these issues, we present a case study of a grading system of cereals that allows us to determine the price of transactions of cereals (Durum wheat, S...

Forty five specimens of the short beaked garfish Belone svetovidovi, a rare belonid species largely confused with the garfish Belone belone from Tunisian coast Sea were examined for metazoan parasite. Nine metazoan parasites species were identified: one monogenean (Axine sp.), 4 digeneans (Lecithostaphylus retroflexus, Tergestia acanthocephala, Aponurus laguncula and Condylocotyla pilodora meta...

The natural occurrence of entomophthoralean fungi pathogenic towards aphids on cereal and potato crops was investigated in the years 2009, 2010, and 2011. Infected aphids were sampled in three bioclimatic zones in Tunisia (Beja, Cap bon, and Kairouan) and fungal species were determined based on morphological characters such as shape, size, and number of nuclei in the primary conidia. Polymerase...

North African gundis (Ctenodactylus gundi) were trapped in the Leishmania (L.) tropica focus of cutaneous leishmaniasis, situated in southeast Tunisia and evaluated for Leishmania infection by real-time kinetoplast DNA polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Species identification was performed by internal transcribed spacer one (ITS1)-PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) and high-resol...

IMF policies have been widely criticized in the aftermath of the Asian crisis. Key critics questioned the appropriateness and the sequencing of financial liberalization programs which, along with insufficient monitoring and inadequate prudential regulations, left the financial sectors of the affected countries highly leveraged and exposed. This paper examines the impacts of similar reforms on t...

1Universitá di Milano, Ca Granda Foundation Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Milan, Italy; 2Centre National de Greffe de Moelle Osseuse, Bab Saadoun, Tunis, Tunisia; 3Istanbul University Medical Faculty, Istanbul, Turkey; 4Suleyman Demirel University Medical Faculty, Isparta, Turkey; 5Ospedale Civico, G Di Cristina e Benfratelli, Palermo, Italy; 6Children’s Hospital ...

Consumer awareness about dairy quality increased in the last years, specifically after recent food incidents worldwide (aflatoxin contamination Europe, 2013, E. coli outbreak USA, 2015). In Tunisia, security and sustainability are at center of agricultural strategies. Therefore, data collected from a face-to-face survey 214 participants three cities Tunisia were analyzed with aim to identify ge...

pauesia antennata mukerji (hymenoptera, braconidae) as the unique parasitoid of the giant brown peach aphid, pterochloroides persiace cholodkovsky (hemiptera, aphididae) is considered to be the most effective biological control agent of this pest. in this study, the assessment of selected biological parameters of p. antennata demonstrated that the longevity of mature parasitoid was 3.90 ± 0.22,...