Species of Echinococcus (Cestoda: Taeniidae) require 2 mammalian hosts to complete their life-cycle; a carnivorous definitive host, and a herbivorous or omnivorous intermediate host. For most species of Echinococcus, the definitive host range is restricted to 1 or a few species, but the intermediate host range is very broad. Programmes to control hydatid disease attempt to break the life-cycle ...

Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 13, No. 7, July 2007 1131 and vinegar mixture, locally known as kinilaw. Other methods of fi sh preparation were tinola (boiled), ginataan (stewed in coconut milk), and sinugba (charcoal-grilled). All echinostomeinfected patients had a history of having eaten snails, kuhol and kiambu-ay, prepared raw with coconut milk and lime juice (kinilaw...

introduction:cats carry a lot of zoonotic parasites such as toxoplasma gondii which causes toxoplasmosis in warm-blooded animals. toxoplasmosis includes wide range of symptoms in its intermediate and definitive hosts but the worst symptoms have been seen in pregnant women and also on immunocompromised hosts. considering the importance of cats as the only definitive host that spread the t. gondi...

background: mediterranean visceral leishmaniasis (mvl) is an infectious disease that affects both human and ani­mals. domestic dogs ( canis familiaris ) are principal reservoir hosts of mvl caused by leishmania infantum . dogs are definitive hosts for neospora caninum and a risk factor for infecting intermediate hosts. the immunosuppression caused by visceral leishmaniasis (vl) can promote the ...

This study used a partial sequence of the mitochondrial cox1 gene for reconstruction interrelationship adult and larval stages Spirometra obtained from Cerdocyon thous, Leopardus munoai, Canis familiaris, Didelphis albiventris Philodryas patagoniensis in Uruguay. The phylogenetic analysis showed that they were grouped with decipiens Americas high bootstrap support. According to recent studies, ...

Abstract. Sutrisnawati, Ramadhan A, Trianto M. 2022. Molecular identification of Oncomelania hupensis lindoensis, snail intermediate hosts Schistosoma japonicum from Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 23: 5989-5994. Schistosomiasis is a zoonotic parasitic disease with japonicum. The spread O. lindoensis habitat was found in the three areas Napu, Bada, and Lindu Highlands an infection ra...