background : cats play a crucial role in the epidemiology of gastrointestinal helminthic parasites and also play a major role in transmitting of these parasites through faecal contamination of soil, food or water. the aim of this study was to determine the species of gastrointestinal helminthes parasites in stray cats from a rural area of bandar-e-anzali, iran. method: gastrointestinal helminth...

Human toxocariasis is a zoonosis caused by infective larvae of Toxocara canis (Beaver, 1956) or Toxocara cati (Nagakura et al., 1990). These ascarids are commonly found in the tissues (larvae) and intestinal tract (adult worms) of dogs and cats, respectively. Infection results from ingestion of embryonated eggs in soil (Glickman and Schantz, 1981) or on contaminated fomites (Vazquez Tsuji et al...

introduction: parasitic diseases could be one of the common problems of human society in any time in every place. the animals can passed this infection to human as zoonotic disease. cats are one of the most important animals that living and eating long with human in society. therefore feline parasitic zoonosis is threatened human health and cause death and serious disease. for the reason, the p...

Zoonotic Toxocara eggs are excreted by dogs and cats. A ubiquitous distribution and resistance may lead to human, mainly children, accidental ingestion of embryonated eggs and infection. In humans the infection remains occult, often resulting in disease caused by the migration larval stages. Human infection by Toxocara canis or Toxocara cati may progress to systemic and ocular toxocariasis. Spe...

To the Editor: Fox et al. used computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI) techniques in an outbreak of cryptosporidiosis (1). Australian health agencies have used CATI for several years. A case-control study during an outbreak of Salmonella Mbandaka in 1996 employed CATI to interview 15 casepatients and 45 controls; contaminated peanut butter was implicated (2). Foodborne disease outbreaks ar...