background: parasitic intestinal infections are still among socioeconomic prob­lems in the world, especially in developing countries like iran. food-handlers that directly deal with production and distribution of foods between societies are one of the most important sources to transmit parasitic infections to humans. the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of intestinal parasitic ...

Members of the genus Vibrio are autochthonous bacterial flora in the aquatic ecosystem and quite a few of them are associated with infections in humans and aquatic animals. Human infection follows either direct contact with aquatic environment or indirectly via contaminated food and water. Food-borne Vibrio infections tend to occur more frequently in developed countries while transmission of Vi...

The outbreak of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli in Germany last year and recent reports about the emergence of Salmonella Kentucky as a “new superbug” have re-focused public attention on food-borne diseases. Salmonellosis is an important cause of food-borne disease with significant economic burden to the population and healthcare systems. In the last century, microbiologists have identified...

Mosquito borne infectious diseases are among important group of diseases worldwide. Vaccination is available for some tropical mosquito-borne diseases, especially for Japa-nese encephalitis virus infection and yellow fever. There are also several attempts to develop new vaccines for the other mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue infection and West Nile virus infection. In this articl...

In many countries of the world, bacterial food-borne zoonotic infections are the most common cause of human intestinal disease. Salmonella and Campylobacter account for over 90% of all reported cases of bacteria-related food poisoning world-wide. Poultry and poultry products have been incriminated in the majority of traceable food-borne illnesses caused by these bacteria, although all domestic ...

Zoonotic diseases are a major cause of morbidity, and productivity losses in both human and animal populations. Identifying the source of food-borne zoonoses (e.g. an animal reservoir or food product) is crucial for the identification and prioritisation of food safety interventions. For many zoonotic diseases it is difficult to attribute human cases to sources of infection because there is litt...

Listeria monocytogenes is a remarkably successful food-borne pathogen. It is capable a) of surviving and proliferating under conditions that exist within the food chain, such as at low temperatures, high salt and low pH and b) of colonizing animal host tissues after ingestion of contaminated food, causing opportunistic infections mainly, but not exclusively, in immunocompromised hosts. The ulti...

 Coronavirus disease (COVID) has had a growing outbreak around the world. China reported COVID-19 infection for the first time in December 2019. Symptoms of this disease often include respiratory symptoms, but gastrointestinal symptoms (nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea) were also reported in COVID-19 infection. Coronavirus transmits through direct droplets, contact, or fomites. However, other mod...

There is a wide variety of food products that may be contaminated with one or more parasites and consequently enabling transmission to human beings. The prevalence of specific parasites in food supplies varies between countries and regions. Sources of food-borne products contaminated with parasites are pigs, cattle, fish, crabs, crayfish, snails, frogs, snakes and aquatic plants. One of the maj...