The filthy breeding habits, feeding mechanisms, and indiscriminate travel between filth and food make some groups of synanthropic insects such as nonbiting flies and cockroaches efficient vectors of human enteric protozoan parasites. Twenty-one species of filth flies have been listed by regulatory agencies concerned with sanitation and public health as causative agents of gastrointestinal disea...

Nowadays, the fast development of nanobiotechnology, has led to rapid diagnosis important infectious diseases such as arboviruses-borne diseases, vector-borne infections and waterborne parasites others in order reduce avoid further dissemination within general population. Furthermore, new nanomedicines based on application silver gold nanoparticles which are less toxic, more effective, that doe...

Parasite transmission strategies strongly impact host-parasite co-evolution and virulence. However, studies of vector-borne parasites such as avian malaria have neglected the potential effects of host relatedness on the exchange of parasites. To test whether extended parental care in the presence of vectors increases the probability of transmission from parents to offspring, we used high-throug...

BACKGROUND As a result of urbanization, eating and drinking from food service establishments is becoming a common practice in developing countries like Ethiopia, which increases the chances of food borne diseases. The health status and hygiene practices of food handlers are the major determinants of food contamination. In developing countries where there are poor regulatory systems for food hyg...

Some vector borne parasites i n Swedish reindeer. A review presented at the F i f t h E u r o p e a n Regional M e e t i n g of the Society for V e c t o r E c o l o g y , September 2.-6. 1990, Uppsa la , Sweden. T h e c l inical and pathological manifestations as w e l l as sonre meat hygienic aspects of Megatrypanum t rypanosomes, Babesia divergens, Setaria tundrae, Onchocerca tarsicola and L...