background: the prevalence and intensity of endo and ectoparasites in shrews inhabiting in the dasht-e razan of hamedan province, iran, were determined in this study. methods: by live traps, 64 shrews belong to species bicoloured white-toothed shrews ( crocidura leucodon ) were trapped during 2010-2012. captured animals were euthanized and their gender recorded. the blood thick and thin smears ...

In helminthiasis disease, a part of the body is infested with worms such as pinworm, roundworm or tape worm. Typically, the worms reside in the gastrointestinal tract but may also burrow into the liver and other organs[1]. Although the majority of infections due to worms are generally limited to tropical regions, they can occur to travelers who have visited those areas and some of them can deve...

Parasitic helminthes remain important causative agents of human, plant and animal diseases. Helminthes seek out food sources and navigate toward potential hosts using olfaction of simple chemical cues in a process called chemoattraction. While several studies have examined how nematodes, including Caenorhabditis elegans, behave in response to a chemoattractant, how the characteristics of the ch...

A survey was conducted to determine the prevalence of gastrointestinal helminthes in local chickens, broilers and layers slaughtered in Makurdi metropolis between September 2007 and April 2008. A total of 440 samples were collected from male and female chickens. Of the total samples examined, 200(45.5%) were from domestic chicken, 140(31.8%) from broilers and 100(22.7%) from layers. Of the tota...

BACKGROUND Carnivore carcasses on the roads can be regarded as study materials in parasitology and eco-epidemiology. Stray carnivores such as dogs and cats are known to harbor so many different pathogens like zoonotic helminthes. The current investigation, apparent the status of the helminthic parasites found in road killed carnivores from different parts of Guilan Province north of Iran. MET...

Dogs are definite hosts for several zoonotic helminthes and protozoan. Rural areas from the Lobos District in the northeast of Buenos Aires province, Argentina, are mainly used for livestock activity, increasing in this way the number of dogs on farms as well as the human risk of parasitic infections. The aims of this research were to evaluate the endoparasitic infections in dogs from farms in ...

Asthma is common in urban centers in Latin America, but atopic asthma may not be the main phenotype among children. Helminth infections are highly prevalent in poor populations and we hypothesized that they attenuate allergic asthma, while other factors are related to the expression of a non-atopic wheeze/asthma phenotype. A total of 1982 children aged 10.1 (0.76) years (SD) from Southern Brazi...