West Nile virus (WNV) is a zoonotic, emerging mosquito-borne which can cause severe disease in the form of encephalitis and acute flaccid paralysis humans. In Assam, northeast India, arboviruses seem to be re-emerging, however, WNV has been little studied. The present investigation was carried out from April, 2018 March, 2019 study sero-positivity chicken urban peri-urban areas Guwahati, capita...

AIM Clinical forms of Lyme disease in Gorski Kotar have occurred only sporadically, in contrast to the northwestern Croatia and the neighboring areas of Slovenia, which are well-known Lyme borreliosis endemic regions. Our aim was to assess the level of sero-prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in a high-risk population of forestry workers in the mountainous region of Gorski Kotar, Croa...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to conduct a sero-epidemiological survey in Meshkinshahr, Ardabil Province, northwestern Iran to detect the rate of hydatidosis in the city and nearby villages. Literature shows that no such study has been conducted so far. METHODS Overall, 670 serum samples were collected from 194 males and 476 females from patients referred to different health centers of...

OBJECTIVE The study determined the seroprevalence of Toxocara canis infection among children attending four selected health facilities in the Central Region of Ghana. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. METHOD Sera from 566 children aged 1-15 years attending four selected health facilities in the Central Region of Ghana between July and September 2012 was used in a Toxocara excretory-secretory an...

BACKGROUND HIV/AIDS epidemics continue unchecked in African countries at all level of society bearing the heaviest burden of the scourge. Different researches have been done to see the progress of disease from time to time However, information that shows the trend of HIV among the healthy population over a period of time in Ethiopia is very limited. METHODS A descriptive retrospective cross-s...

BACKGROUND Visceral leishmaniasis (kala-azar) is an endemic disease in some areas of Iran. A cross- sectional study was conducted for sero-epidemiological survey of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in Baft district from Kerman Province, southeast of Iran. METHODS Blood samples were collected from children up to 12 years old and 10% of adult population from Baft villages with a multi-stage randomiz...

Hepatitis B virus and plasmodium co-infection is of an increase in developing countries as a result lack proper diagnosis leading to increased morbidity. This study was determine the sero-prevalence Virus Plasmodium profile among patients Wukari environs. Seventy (70) subjects’ with age range between 0 80 years participated standard microbiological techniques were observed this study. The resul...

Serum samples from 51 apparently healthy breeding bulls were screened for bovine herpesvirus-1 (BHV-1) antibodies using an avidin-biotin enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, revealing a sero-positive prevalence rate of 45.09%. Semen samples were then collected from 12 of the sero-positive and 12 of the sero-negative bulls and tested for BHV-1 antigen using both a virus isolation assay and a polym...

BACKGROUND Ethiopian livestock production and productivity is still very low due to widespread of diseases. Among the diseases, foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is an extremely contagious and acute viral disease that causes significant economic problems in the country. A cross sectional study design was conducted from September 2015 to May 2016 to isolate and characterize FMD virus from outbreak ca...