Echinococcus multilocularis, a cestode parasite responsible for alveolar echinococcosis in humans, is often reported in Europe. It involves red foxes, domestic dogs, and domestic and wild cats as definitive hosts. The parasite infects small mammals and accidentally humans as intermediate hosts and develops in a similar way to a tumor, usually in the liver. Domestic animals are suspected of play...

A copro-antigen capture ELISA for the detection of Teladorsagia circumcincta infection in sheep was developed and evaluated. Experiments with faeces from worm-free sheep, that had been spiked with known concentrations of excretory-secretory (E-S) antigen indicated that a positive signal was generated with 180 ng of E-S/ml. A nested design, based on 8 infected and 8 worm-free sheep, was employed...

BACKGROUND Human cystic echinococcosis (CE) and alveolar echinococcosis (AE) are highly endemic in Tibetan communities of Sichuan Province. Previous research in the region indicated that domestic dog was the major source of human infection, and observations indicated that domestic dog could have more access to intermediate hosts of Echinococcus spp.: both domestic livestock (CE) viscera and sma...

Two commercial probiotics preparations were analysed regarding the possibility to induce different T cells population. Determining CD4+, CD4+CD8+ and CD8+ expression (Tab.1) one was subjected to further experiments and delivered it together with milk allergen b-LG to Balb/C mice. 14, 21, 28 and 35d from the beginning of experiments specific serum IgG&IgA, sIgA and copro-IgA were checked. We fou...

C. philippinensis is a parasite of the small intestine that causes a severe enteropathy and at times death in cases of delayed diagnosis or inappropriate treatment. This study aims to detect the molecular prevalence of C. philippinensis among diarrheic patients at Beni-Suef, Egypt. Stool samples were collected from 121 diarrheic patients and subjected to copro-parasitological examination and co...

Fascioliasis is a common disease of cattle and other ruminants caused by F. hepatica and F. gigantica. The disease is world wide in distribution and is liable for causing extensive economic losses to the livestock industry encompassing reductions in weight gain, milk yield and fertility. In this study knowledge about prevalence, diagnosis, treatment and control of Fascioliasis has been reviewed...

The prevalence of liver and intestinal fluke infections was determined by surveying inhabitants of Hengxuan, Fusui, and Shanglin villages which were known to be endemic for liver flukes in Guangxi, China in May 2010. A total of 718 people were examined for helminth eggs by the Kato-Katz thick smear technique, ultrasonography, immunoaffinity chromatography, and DNA sequencing. The overall egg po...

We present a single-molecule tool called the CoPro (concentration of proteins) method that uses millisecond imaging with convolution analysis, automated image segmentation and super-resolution localization microscopy to generate robust estimates for protein concentration in different compartments of single living cells, validated using realistic simulations of complex multiple compartment cell ...