Effective vaccines are available for many protozoal diseases of animals, including vaccines for zoonotic pathogens and for several species of vector-transmitted apicomplexan haemoparasites. In comparison with human diseases, vaccine development for animals has practical advantages such as the ability to perform experiments in the natural host, the option to manufacture some vaccines in vivo, an...

Infectious parasites, especially the intestinal protozoan continue to be a major public health problem in Africa, where many of same factors contribute transmission these parasites. This study was conducted investigate parasites causing protozoal infections diagnosed Aristide Le Dantec hospital (Senegal). Direct examination and Ritchie technique were used. Among 3407 stool samples studied, 645 ...

Bacterial predation by protozoa has the most deleterious effect on the efficiency of N use within the rumen, but differences in activity among protozoal groups are not completely understood. Two in vitro experiments were conducted to identify the protozoal groups more closely related with rumen N metabolism. Rumen protozoa were harvested from cattle and 7 protozoal fractions were generated imme...

Knowledge of the fatty acid profile of microbial lipids is of great nutritional importance to the animals and, subsequently, their products. This study was conducted to examine the fatty acid profiles of mixed rumen bacteria and protozoa. Bacterial and protozoal cells were isolated by differential centrifugation of rumen contents. The main fatty acids were palmitic (16:0) and stearic (18:0) in ...

OBJECTIVE This study examined associations between household sanitation and enteric infection - including diarrhoeal-specific outcomes - in children 0-2 years of age in a low-income, dense urban neighbourhood. METHODS As part of the MAL-ED study, 230 children in a low-income, urban, Indian neighbourhood provided stool specimens at 14-17 scheduled time points and during diarrhoeal episodes in ...

In recent years, research into and public interest in probiotics and probiotic foods have risen. Lactobacilli and bifidobacterium are the most commonly used probiotics while yoghurt and kefir are popular foods containing probiotics. Probiotics have been used to manage diarrhoea. Many things cause diarrhoea, including bacterial, viral and protozoal infections, radiation and antibiotic therapy. D...

Tinidazole (1-[2-(ethylsulfonyl)ethyl]-2-methyl-5-nitroimidazole) was first introduced into clinical medicine in 1967 and has been used in Europe, Australia, Asia and in a number of developing countries for decades. It was approved by the FDA for the treatment of protozoal infections like trichomoniasis, giardiasis, intestinal amoebiasis, amoebic liver abscess. It is also very effective for bac...

INDIAN PEDIATRICS 1161 VOLUME 42__NOVEMBER 17, 2005 Nitazoxanide (NTZ) is a novel broadspectrum antiparasitic agent originally discovered in 1980s by J.F. Rossignol. Nitazoxanide is effective in broad range of parasitic and protozoal infections including Giardia lamblia, Entamoeba histolytica, Cryptosporidium spp., Ascaris lumbricoides, Hymenolepis nana and Taenia solium/saginata. In combinatio...