Fur animal farming was initiated during the 1890s on Prince Edward Island in Canada. Farmed silver foxes descend from animals caught from the wild on the island. Finnish fur farming increased during the post war period and in mid-1980s, there were about 6000 fur animal farms, mostly located in Southern Ostrobothnia (Fig.), producing about 8 million fur animals yearly. Currently, there are appro...

Human-associated Cyclospora is a coccidian parasite that causes diarrheal disease. A reevaluation of the parasite's molecular taxonomy that takes into account newly published data for seven Eimeria species shows that Cyclospora belongs to the Eimeria clade (Eimeriidae family). The Cyclospora branch on the phylogenetic tree is between the branches of the eight avian and two mammalian Eimeria spe...

In 1962, the first case of human coccidiosis caused by Isospora belli was reported from Belgium 1. It occurred in a patient of Armenian origin who had lived in Belgium from childhood and in whom 1sospora belli oocysts were discovered in the stools while the patient was suffering from persistent diarrhoea which had started when he was travelling in Iran. Unfortunately, the patient was lost sight...