Currently there is no influenza vaccination guidance for European general practitioners. Furthermore, although the European Council recommends a target seasonal influenza vaccination rate of 75% in the elderly (65 years and above) and in anyone aged >6 months with a chronic medical condition, there remain wide discrepancies throughout Europe. A harmonised guideline regarding not only vaccinatio...

BACKGROUND Maternal dietary avoidance of egg has been recommended to treat egg allergy in breastfed infants. However, only one of three randomized controlled trials have produced evidence in favour of this recommendation. OBJECTIVE Our objective was to assess human milk ovalbumin (OVA) concentration after daily maternal ingestion of one cooked egg for 3 weeks. METHODS Mothers with egg-sensi...

Background Anaphylaxis after vaccination is rare but significant problem since it may be fatal without prompt treatment. Proper diagnosis and identification of the causative agent is critical for management and prophylaxis of the anaphylaxis. Influenza vaccine-associated anaphylaxis (IVA) has been related to egg allergy since influenza vaccines are produced in embryonated eggs. However, patient...

BACKGROUND Children with allergy to raw egg white might tolerate low amounts of heated egg. Ovomucoid-specific IgE antibodies have been suggested to be predictors of whether children could tolerate heat-treated egg. OBJECTIVE The aim was to evaluate the clinical usefulness and added diagnostic value of measurements of IgE antibodies to egg white, ovalbumin, and ovomucoid in children with egg ...

Microbial food safety of eggs has not been thoroughly investigated in Egypt. Pseudomonas species are among the most ubiquitous bacteria in the environment that may also contaminate eggs. To investigate the microbial burden of Pseudomonas species in eggs, one hundred composite samples (6 eggs in each) of table hen and duck eggs were prepares after they were collected from different shops and sup...

Background and Objectives: Increased environmental concerns about synthetic packaging have promoted developments of novel, environmentally-friendly edible films. In the present study, the quality parameters of chicken egg coated with pectin or pectin incorporated cinnamon hydrosol was assessed. Materials and Methods: Egg chicken were coated with pectin and pectin prepared with cinnamon hydroso...

The ostrich industry experiences a high rate of embryonic mortalities during artificial incubation of eggs. Embryonic deaths were studied from data recorded on 37,740 fertile eggs incubated artificially during the 1998-2005 breeding seasons. Roughly 10,000 eggs that sustained embryonic mortalities were classified according to the stage and nature of death, i.e. before 21 days of incubation, aft...

conclusions based on the results of this study there is a risk of infection with soil transmitted helminthes among children of kermanshah, iran. results out of 192 soil samples, soil of play areas from four regions was contaminated with geohelminth eggs. the rate of soil contamination with trichuris spp. eggs was 3.12% while this was 2.1% for hookworm eggs, yet no ascaris eggs were found in the...

food choice in omnivorous animals is influenced by the balance of nutritional needs, food availability, and quality of a particular food items. here, we study whether omnivorous onion thrips, thrips tabaci lindeman, feed on the eggs of its competitor tetranychus urticae koch (acari: tetranychidae) when an alternative supplemental source is, or is not, available. thrips were either fed a cucumbe...

vampirolepis nana is the most common cestode in humans especially children. domestic mice and rats can serve as definitive hosts for v. nana. confusion exists over the species status and host-specificity of this tapeworm. in a previous study done by the same authors it was found that the egyptian human isolates of v. nana could be used to infect mice for experimental work. eggs in human feces a...