Parasitic gastro-enteritis leads to a serious health threat with a limitation to the productivity of small ruminants due to the associated morbidity, mortality, cost of treatment and prophylaxis (Nwosu et al., 2007). Parasitic infections are of much economic importance because small ruminants' rearing has become a major source of income particularly to the marginal farmers in the country (Patha...

human infection with the coccidia parastite, isospora belli is relatively uncommon. human isosporiasis in iran was first reported by hadjian in 1961. 5 yearly, about 200 stool samples have been examined by direct and formol-ether concentration techniques in the protozoology unit, school of public health, tehran university of medical sciences. in addition to the common protozoal and helminthic i...

an address at the Royal Sanitary Institute on April 26th, 1922, stated that recent observation by American workers had shown the pig to be a disseminator of hookworm larvae. In the annual report of the work done in the hookworm laboratory of the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine during 1921, issued by the Indian Tea Association on May 10th, 1922, Dr. R. Borland McVail writes: " In view of th...

Common environmental allergens stimulate IgE responses and produce allergic disease, but the allergens that produce the most potent IgE responses in nature originate from helminthic parasites. 1 2 Since parasitic infection is endemic in the majority of the world's population , the relationship between helminthic infection and the IgE response is highly relevant to the understanding of allergic ...

Intestinal helminthic infections in Pemba Island, United Republic of Tanzania, have been perceived as a public health problem for many decades. School surveys in 1988 and 1992 and a community survey in 1991 were carried out to assess the distribution of prevalence and the intensity of these infections and to define the most effective strategy for control. The prevalence of helminthic infections...