Entomology in Human and Animal Health

Animal Disease and Human Health

The erythematous psoriatic lesions, covered by mica-like scales, may be solitary or generalized. Although spontaneous remissions sometimes occur, for the most part the disease is recurrent and deforming. In 6 per cent of the patients psoriasis is complicated by rheumatoidlike arthritis involving primarily the terminal interphalangeal joints of the hands and feet which may be incapacitating. Dr....

Aflatoxins in animal and human health.

Aflatoxins remain as a threat to the health of livestock as well as humans by their continuing intermittent occurrence in both feeds and foods. The finding that aflatoxin-contaminated feeds, and eventually purified aflatoxins, were carcinogenic in rats and trout initiated a multitude of studies in search of the role of these toxins in human liver disease, especially cancer. Although aflatoxins ...

Mycotoxins in Human and Animal Health

Use of human lice in forensic entomology.

Hematophagus arthropod bloodmeals may be useful in identifying individual hosts. To examine the application of human lice as a forensic tool, that is, as evidence of physical contact between individuals, body lice from a laboratory colony and head lice, collected from the head of infested children, were studied. The DNA profile of an individual was detectable in the pooled bloodmeals of two bod...

Ancient DNA from Human and Animal

Research on ancient DNA (aDNA) has the potential to enable molecular biologists and archeologists to decipher certain aspects of history by direct looking into the past. However, several major problems in this field limit the applicability of aDNA studies, most importantly contamination with modern DNA and postmortem DNA degradation. In this study we extracted and analyzed aDNA obtained from ~3...