Parasitic infections previously seen only in developing tropical settings can be currently diagnosed worldwide due to travel and population migration. Some parasites may directly or indirectly affect various anatomical structures of the heart, with infections manifested as myocarditis, pericarditis, pancarditis, or pulmonary hypertension. Thus, it has become quite relevant for clinicians in dev...

Introduction: Consumption of fresh herbs plays a major epidemiological role in the transmission of some parasitic food-borne diseases. Some manufacturers are producing different kinds of fresh packaged ready-to-eat packaged herbs in Iran. Therefore, this study was carried out in order to evaluate the parasitic contamination in ready-to-eat fresh packaged herbs produced by one of major manufactu...

results significant differences were observed in the results of co-culture of nematodes larva and fungi after seven days. the most effective fungi against the nematodes larvae were cladosporium sp., trichoderma sp., fusarium equisetti, after seven days of incubation. materials and methods sheep feces were employed to provide the required third stage larvae source for the experiments. the nemato...

AIM The present study has been carried out to detect non-parasitic dermatoses in canines brought at the Nandini Veterinary Hospital, Surat. MATERIALS AND METHODS The current investigation was carried out on skin scrapping, skin biopsy specimens, blood, and serum samples of 210 freshly registered cases of dogs with dermatological afflictions. Dogs found healthy on clinical examination were use...

Plant-parasitic nematodes (PPNs) are one of the major biotic factors that cause significant yield losses in wheat-growing areas worldwide. The PPN groups causing economic wheat quantity and quality cereal cyst (CCNs) root-lesion (RLNs). Based on their wide distribution, pathogenicity, high occurrence cultivated areas, they considered threats to global food supply. loss caused by these destructi...

background: organ transplant recipients can experience serious diseases from infections due to emerging and reemerging parasitic infections. this study was carried out to evaluate the prevalence of intestinal parasites among renal transplant re-cipients of iran. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted from june 2003 to august 2004 on renal transplant recipients in iran. a total of 706...