Editorial: Neglected and Under-Researched Parasitic Diseases of Veterinary and Zoonotic Interest

The First National Congress of Parasitic Diseases and Zoonotic Parasites

postnatal studies of bats (pipistrellus kuhlii and miniopterus schreibersii) & histomorphology and histochemistry studies of organs and diseases of (neurergus microspilotus and n. kaiseri)

1. to determine whether difference in birth body mass influenced growth performance in pipistrellus kuhlii we studied a total of 12 captive-born neonates. bats were assigned to two body mass groups: light birth body mass (lbw: 0.89 ± 0.05, n=8) and heavy birth body mass (hbw: 1.35 ± 0.08, n=4). heavier body mass at birth was associated with rapid postnatal growth (body mass and forearm length) ...

Zoonotic Larval Cestode Infections: Neglected, Neglected Tropical Diseases?

1 Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, 2 Infectious Disease Division, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, 3 Department of Microbiology, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima,...

Neglected Zoonotic Diseases—The Long and Winding Road to Advocacy

BACKGROUND Years of advocacy for the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) have focused the world's attention on these diseases of the poor, resulting most recently in the 2012 "London Declaration" and the recent World Health Assembly Resolution WHA66.12 on NTDs in May 2013. Control of the endemic neglected zoonotic diseases (NZDs) would benefit from a similar campaign, which needs the support of ...

Progress and challenges in controlling neglected zoonotic diseases.

Suzanne Jarvis reports from the Fourth International Meeting on the Control of Neglected Zoonotic Diseases, hosted by the World Health Organization in Geneva in November. The meeting looked at progress that has been made in controlling these diseases and at what the next steps should be for further control.