Using some recent parasitology case reports involving zoonoses, I will cover aspects such as sample preparation, DNA extraction, primer choice, types of PCR and sequencing methods. also briefly discuss the use GenBank importance phylogenetic trees for diagnostic purposes. The NGS other technologies be reviewed.

Parasitology: A conceptual approach is a newest textbook focusing on concepts and principles of parasitology for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students as well as instructors and professors in universities. The book covers a wide spectrum of parasitic protozoans, helminths, and arthropods, and even includes parasitic fungi, algae, and plants. It contains a total of 276 highest quality ...

One Health is certainly a topical, one could say trendy area to espouse and exploit as a positive driver for multidisciplinary activities and research funding. One Health is also increasingly incorporated into undergraduate and graduate teaching related to health and disease, broadly defined, and into public policy. As a concept it has great potential if considered in terms of the conceptual fr...

Ten years ago Dr. Belding brought out the first edition of this text and in the present volume follows the original plan of presenting "the protozoan, helminthic, and arthropod parasites of man, and the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of the diseases they produce." Although more material has been compressed into each page and thinner paper permits a convenient reduction in its thickness, t...

Humans are hosts to nearly 300 species of parasitic worms and over 70 species of protozoa, some derived from our primate ancestors and some acquired from the animals we have domesticated or come in contact with during our relatively short history on Earth. Our knowledge of parasitic infections extends into antiquity, and descriptions of parasites and parasitic infections are found in the earlie...

Background: Parasitology is a course filled with many complicated terminologies. In this study, a guide was designed to facilitate the learning of parasitology. More precisely, an annual educational calendar of medical parasitology was designed based on the weeks of education and its effectiveness was assessed in university students of medical sciences. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectio...

The article analyzes two moments that mark the construction of schistosomiasis as a public health problem in Brazil. First, 1910s, controversies surrounding definitions disease involved Bahian physician Pirajá da Silva, character dispute with international circles medical-scientific production. Secondly, mobilizations 1950s, when entered mass diseases agenda Brazilian developmental political pr...

Institute of Parasitology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Berne, Länggass-Strasse 122, CH-3012 Berne, Switzerland Institute of Animal Pathology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Berne, LänggassStrasse 122, CH-3012 Berne, Switzerland Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss Tropical Institute, PO Box, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland Grupo SALUVET, Departamento de Sanidad Anim...

* Corresponding Author 1 Division of Parasitology, National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, India 2 Division of Clinical Medicine, National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, India 3 Academic Medical Centre, Netherland. 4 National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan. Address for correspondence : Dr. Sandipan Ganguly, Division of Parasitology, National Instit...