Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a tick-borne zoonotic disease. Over the past decade, CCHF cases in humans have emerged in Turkey and reemerged in the Balkan countries, Ukraine and Tajikistan. Occupational contact with infected livestock has been recognized as a common cause of the disease. A cross-sectional seroprevalence study in livestock was conducted in farming communities of an ...

Brucellosis is a zoonotic disease which can be transmitted by direct or indirect contact with infected animal or their products. It is an important public health problem but little is known on brucellosis in the Malaysian population. The aim of this study was to determine the presence of Brucella antibodies using commercial Brucella IgG and IgM ELISA kits (Vircell, SL, Barcelona Spain). A total...

The other is a humoral hypothesis, which proposes a immune-mediated, inflammatory response, with release of vasoactive substances capable of producing endothelial damage and alterations of permeability.[4] In this case, it is unlikely to have been due to a demyelinating process, as the MRI Brain and the CSF examination was normal. This case had focal neurological deficits of hemiparesis and cer...

1Islah Medical Laboratory, Islah Charitable Social Society, Jericho, Palestine. 2Health Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Quds University, East Jerusalem, Palestine. 3Hadassah Medical School, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. 4Institute of Microbiology and Hygiene, Humboldt University, Charité, Berlin, Germany. ABSTRACT This study of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Jericho city and the ad...

Rural farming communities in northern Vietnam do not routinely practice vaccination for influenza A viruses (IAV) for either humans or poultry, which enables us to study transmission intensity via seroepidemiology. Using samples from a longitudinal cohort of farming households, we determined the number of symptomatic and asymptomatic human infections for seasonal IAV and avian A/H9 over 2 years...