one that remains poorly understood. In fact, the first positive reports on infectious cause of cancers linked parasites, liver flukes, and Schistosoma with specific human cancers. Ironically, the Danish scientist JohannesA.G. Fibiger won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1926 for his investigations incriminating the nematode Ganglyonema neoplasticum in rat tumors, although his resul...

BACKGROUND The gullet worm, Gongylonema pulchrum Molin, 1857, is a thread-like spirurid nematode found in a variety of mammals worldwide. Its incidences in Iranian cattle of different breed or age have not been reported. The aims of the present study are to disclose the infection status of G. pulchrum in cattle slaughtered in northern region of Iran. METHODS Full-length esophagi of cattle of ...

Gongylonema pulchrum is an important parasite of captive primates. Twelve rabbits were infected with 30 third-stage larvae of G. pulchrum. At 4-7 months post-infection, animals were administered levamisole at a single dose of 12 mg/kg, levamisole at 8 mg/kg three times at 2-day intervals, levamisole at a single dose of 8 mg/kg after administration of mebendazole at 70 mg/kg for 3 days or 8 ml o...

Domestic carnivores play an important role in the transfer of pathogenic helminths from natural foci to synanthropic ones and formation strong parasitic for humans domestic animals. The extensiveness powerful mixed some main helminth infectors have been specified. Upon studying creation improvement firstly Azerbaijan. For first time, it was found out that are new host 14 types infected with wil...