Lyme disease is a leading vector-borne disease in the United States. Although the majority of Lyme patients can be cured with standard 2-4 week antibiotic treatment, 10%-20% of patients continue to suffer from prolonged post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS). While the cause for this is unclear, persisting organisms not killed by current Lyme antibiotics may be involved. In our previous s...

Lymphatic Filariasis, a Neglected Tropical Disease, is caused by thread-like parasitic worms, including B. malayi, which migrate to the human lymphatic system following transmission. The parasites reside in collecting lymphatic vessels and lymph nodes for years, often resulting in lymphedema, elephantiasis or hydrocele. The mechanisms driving worm migration and retention within the lymphatics a...

Most of the illicit drugs and some adulterants occur as optical isomers with different psychotropic activities. Especially for illicit methamphetamine and Ephedra alkaloid samples not only the enantioselective determination of the active substance but also the enantioselective determination of the chiral impurities is important for intelligence purposes with respect to the discrimination of dif...

Sissay M.M., 2007. Helminth parasites of sheep and goats in eastern Ethiopia: Epidemiology, and anthelmintic resistance and its management. Doctoral thesis, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden. ISSN 1652-6880, ISBN 978-91-576-7351-0 A two-year epidemiology study of helminths of small ruminants involved the collection of viscera from 655 sheep and 632 goats from 4 abatto...

The effect of Levamisole was studied in an animal model of Wilms’ tumor. No tumoridical effect of Levamisole could be documented in this tumor model, and no effect was shown on prevention of tumor, when Levamisole was given before tumor implantation. In previous experience with Wilms’ tumor model, a good correlation between the human and animal tumor was found in regard to treatment with differ...

Sodium diethyl dithiocarbamate (DTC) is a low molecular weight sulfur compound which has been previously shown to have immunomodulatory properties. In the present report, the effects of DTC on the mononuclear phagocytic system were studied in guinea pigs. The colloidal gold clearance was enhanced in animals which received an i.v. injection of 10 mg DTC on day – 13, but not in animals treated on...