Ethiopian wolves, Canis simensis, are an endangered carnivore endemic to the Ethiopian highlands. Although previous studies have focused on aspects of Ethiopian wolf biology, including diet, territoriality, reproduction and infectious diseases such as rabies, little is known of their helminth parasites. In the current study, faecal samples were collected from 94 wild Ethiopian wolves in the Bal...

Abstract Toxocariasis is a zoonotic disease caused mainly by Toxocara canis and cati diagnosis in dogs cats an important tool for its control. For this reason, new coprological loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay was developed the simultaneous detection of these species. The primer set designed on region mitochondrial cox -1 gene. Amplification conditions were evaluated using te...

A reversed-phase h.p.l.c. system, with an ODS-Hypersil column with acetonitrile or methanol in ammonium acetate buffer as mobile phase, is described for the separation of uro-and copro-porphyrinogen isomers. The porphyrinogens are detected amperometrically with sensitivity comparable with that of the fluorescent detection of porphyrins. The effects of pH, buffer concentration and organic modifi...

ABSTRACT Coprophanaeus lancifer is a copro-necrophagous beetle endemic to the Amazon region. Although beetles belonging subfamily Scarabaeinae primarily feed on dung, some have greater diet plasticity that includes carrion, fungi, rotten fruits and invertebrates. The of scavenger C. mainly consists vertebrate carcasses, although it also attracted mammal faeces. Here, we describe first record th...

The study was conducted to compare the specificity of immunological diagnostic methods used for the diagnosis of Cryptosporidium species capable of causing life-threatening infection in both immunosuppressed and immunocompetent patients. For the detection of Cryptosporidium species in 79 animals with diarrhoea, we used three Copro-antigen tests: RIDASCREEN®Cryptosporidium test, Cryptosporidium ...

The porphyrinogens are colorless, reduced porphyrins containing 6 extra atoms of hydrogen. They have been reported to occur in biological materials by Fischer, who isolated COPRO’gen’ from the feces of his porphyria patient Petry (l), and by Watson, Schwartz, and coworkers, who showed that COPRO’gen was present in the urine of some of their patients with various porphyrias (2). Suspicions that ...

Background: Giardia and Cryptosporidium are both enteric pathogens causing diarrhea with no reliable method for their diagnosis. The aim of our study was to evaluate the diagnostic performance of a rapid immunochromatographic (IC) ImmunoCard STAT! Crypt/Giardia assay (Meridian Bioscience, Inc.) in comparison to composite reference standard (CRS) of both wet mount microscopy and ELISA copro-anti...

Echinococcus multilocularis, a cestode parasite responsible for alveolar echinococcosis in humans, is often reported in Europe. It involves red foxes, domestic dogs, and domestic and wild cats as definitive hosts. The parasite infects small mammals and accidentally humans as intermediate hosts and develops in a similar way to a tumor, usually in the liver. Domestic animals are suspected of play...

Two commercial probiotics preparations were analysed regarding the possibility to induce different T cells population. Determining CD4+, CD4+CD8+ and CD8+ expression (Tab.1) one was subjected to further experiments and delivered it together with milk allergen b-LG to Balb/C mice. 14, 21, 28 and 35d from the beginning of experiments specific serum IgG&IgA, sIgA and copro-IgA were checked. We fou...