Increasing reuse of reclaimed water for unrestricted agricultural and landscape irrigation is raising considerable concern for human health protection due to the potential spread and contact with human parasites and pathogens. Parasites pose a significant public health concern and the removal of helminth eggs is becoming a crucial treatment step when providing safe reclaimed water. Although lab...

Mathematical modelling of helminth infections has the potential to inform policy and guide research for the control and elimination of human helminthiases. However, this potential, unlike in other parasitic and infectious diseases, has yet to be realised. To place contemporary efforts in a historical context, a summary of the development of mathematical models for helminthiases is presented. Th...

Background: In Addis Ababa, where irrigation water for vegetable production is commonly derived from the highly polluted Akaki river, information on microbial contamination of water and irrigated vegetable is scanty. An assessment was done to determine the microbiological quality of irrigation water and lettuce harvested from 10 urban farming sites of Addis Ababa. The efficacy of 5 lettuce wash...

AIM Intestinal parasitic diseases are commonly accompanied with diarrhoeal symptoms and allergic reactions. Eosinophilia occurs as a result of IL-5 synthesized from Th2 cells during allergic reactions. IL-5 acts as a factor activating eosinophils. The aim of this study was to compare the IL-5 cytokine measurements in serum samples and cell cultures. And also to compare eosinophilia observed in ...

one hundred and five (105) camels were investigated at the maiduguri abattoir, nigeria using floatation and sedimentation techniques for helminth parasites and haematological indices with the microhaematocrit reader. overall, prevalence of infection was 92.4% [(coccidia (8.5%), strongyloides (8.5%), trichuris (11.4%), ciliates (6.7%), ascaris sp. (3.8%), moniezia sp. (1.9%), amphistome sp. (0.9...

background: inverse relationship between helminths infection and immune-mediated diseases has inspired researchers to investigate therapeutic potential of helminths in allergic asthma. helminth unique ability to induce immunoregulatory responses has already been documented in several experimental studies. this study was designed to investigate whether excretory/secretory (es) and somatic produc...

background: recently there is a high tendency among exotic pet owners for keeping hedgehogs. this mammal can transfer some significant zoonotic patho-gens to human. hence, the present study was conducted for the first time to pre-pare a list of helminth parasites of hedgehogs ( erinaceus concolor ) in north of iran. methods: ten (four males and six females) road killed hedgehogs were collected ...

this investigation was performed on 1056 stool samples collected from isfahan area (with high intensity of infection) and dasht-mishan area of khuzestan. as indicated in tables 1, 2 and 3 the results of kato thick-smear technique is comparable to those conventional methods of formalin-ether and flotation methods, plus low cost, simplicity and practicability of kato's thick-smear. for ascaris eg...