Onchocerciasis in imported meat

Onchocerciasis.

An estimated 17.7 million persons, most of them in Africa, are infected with the parasite Onchocerca volvulus. Onchocerciasis has caused blindness in 270,000 and left another 500,000 with severe visual impairment. Onchocerciasis also can cause disfiguring skin changes, musculoskeletal complaints, weight loss, changes in immune function, epilepsy, and growth arrest. The development of ivermec...

Improved DNA Extraction Method for Porcine Contaminants, Detection in Imported Meat to The Saudi Market

A porcine detection methodology based on deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) extraction and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of a specific porcine fragment was used in this paper. With the advent of mass globalization and the fast growing and rapidly changing halal industry of the international market it is of vital need that a practical scientific system be applied and established in the ...

Beta-Lactamase Producing Escherichia coli Isolates in Imported and Locally Produced Chicken Meat from Ghana

The use of antibiotics in food animals is of public health concern, because resistant zoonotic pathogens can be transmitted to humans. Furthermore, global trade with food may rapidly spread multi-resistant pathogens between countries and even continents. The purpose of the study was to investigate whether imported chicken meat and meat from locally reared chicken are potential sources for human...

Onchocerciasis in Tigray.

3) Onchocerciasis

Historical view The parasite, Onchocerca volvulus, was first detected in a Ghanaian by a German missionary in 1890 and was nominated Filaria volvulus by Leuckart (1893). No pathogenicity of the parasite was found yet. In 1915, however, R. Robles reported the new distribution of this filarial parasite in Guatemala, Central America, after enormous parasitological, clinical and epidemiological stu...