Background: Some animal infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, hydatidosis, and fascioliasis cause public health concerns and also significant economic losses. The goal of this study was to assess the rate of fascioliasis, hydatidosis, and tuberculosis in domestic animals during post-mortem inspection at Jijel slaughterhouse, North-Eastern Algeria. Methods: The present study was carried out...

linguatula serrata, well known as tongue worm; is an aberrant cosmopolitan parasite, which inhabits the canine respiratory system (final host). the discharged eggs infect many plant feeder animals including human causing visceral and nasopharyngeal linguatulosis which is known as “marrara syndrome”. in current study, the prevalence of infection with l. serrata nymphs in mesenteric lymph nodes (...

background: safety of blood products and plasma derivates is one of main concerns in transfusion sector. screening of donated blood became an emerging item to large extent because of hepatitis c and b virus, (hcv, hbv) and hiv epidemics especially in blood donation campaign following disasters. in this study we aim to evaluate the pattern of variation of viral infection markers donated at three...

background: among the non-communicable diseases, diabetes mellitus has an important ranking and with annually increasing rate where it is expected the number of people suffering from the disease will reach to 300 million up to 2025 in all of world. the prevalence of type 2 diabetes in iran is 4-4.5% and in population aged above 30 years is greater than 14%. the present study is attempting to fi...

Fasciolosis and dicrocoeliosis are endemic parasitic diseases in Middle East especially Iran, which making significant economic problems. This retrospective survey has been done to evaluate contamination rate of slaughtered animals with fasciolosis and dicrocoeliosis at Meisam abattoir, in Tehran, Iran. In this survey, prevalence rate of fasciolosis and dicrocoeliosis in slaughtered animals in ...

background gastroesophageal reflux disease is a common, chronic disease worldwide. the weekly prevalence of reflux in developed countries is 10% to 48%. it has previously been reported as 5% in asian countries, but new reports show a higher level in both asian and arab countries. in iran, reflux has increased over the last two decades. there are few studies concerning the prevalence of reflux i...