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Hello Altruists!
I have completed my study in major of Veterinary Science and working on Livestock Sector since last 5 years.
I would also like to collaborate with some researchers to develop my further research career. I'm wondering how others have found colleagues to collaborate with there?
Animal Anatomy, Histopathology, Neuroscience, Antimicrobial Resistance and Zoonotic diseases are my main areas of interest.
Thank Everyone.
I have a few questions regarding that topic:
1. What technologies, both existing and in development, can enhance early detection or improve monitoring of disease spread?
2. What are all the possible environmental impacts that could be relevant to the issue?
3. What social, health, and economic impacts are pertinent to the issue?
Thank a lot,
Itay
Hi all, I have sort of a paradoxical scenario that applies to several species groups throughout Southeast Asia and is becoming more and more probable in the very near future. I need to start a discussion with conservation-minded people who realize the implications of conservation policy advocacy and adverse effects those policy changes may have:
One of the common buzz-words of the post-Covid era is "One Health". For those unfamiliar with the One Health approach, it is a holistic framework with the objective of identifying and achieving balance between the health of people, animals, and ecosystems. The One Health approach is a lens that recognizes humans, wildlife, and the environment are intrinsically connected, whereby beneficial or adverse effects on one component will directly affect the others.
When we apply One Health to wildlife trade policy, many groups are advocating that hotspot wildlife trade nations (like Vietnam and China), do not implement all-out bans on wildlife, but instead a select group of high-risk species that are prone to zoonotic disease transfer with humans, as a pandemic prevention measure... and here lay the issue....
I have just recently analyzed data for three government rescue centers in the north and south Vietnam for an IUCN project, and during the pandemic, we have seen an increase in "High-risk species X" (insert primates, viverrids, mustelids, etc.) rescues compared to the years prior. I spoke with some of the rescue team and managers and they said that people are voluntarily handing over captive High-risk species X to authorities more often now because they worry about disease, and more strict wildlife regulation enforcement since the pandemic began.
This has definitely put a strain on Rescue Center facilities in the country, especially those run by government employees who don't have regular access to experienced vets, and who often release animals that have no business being released back into the wild (obviously ill, over habituated to humans, non-native to the area, etc.)
I'm wondering what solutions we can recommend for this problem, because if conservationists continue to advocate for these "Common Sense One Health Policies" that elevate an all-out ban high-risk species, and start realistically enforcing bans on keeping High-risk Species X these voluntary hand-overs will explode and result in Rescue Centers filling over their capacity, and government officials rapidly releasing tons of High-risk Species X (whether native or not) back into the nearest protected area forests. The fallout from this could be devastating -- biological invasions, massive outbreaks of disease into wild populations, inbred depression from farmed animals decreasing fitness of wild populations, who knows what else...
And there is the paradox -- If we ban high-risk zoonotic disease species from wildlife trade, we protect them from that particular threat, and we prevent future pandemics through that particular human-wildlife interface; but in doing so, we risk damning a more significant population-level of wildlife, which could also lead to a pandemic through a different interface caused by the releases and inter-species spikes.
How do we address this problem before it happens -- and it will happen?
CAn anyone tell whether the journal titled "Journal of Zoonotic Diseases" is indexed in SCOPUS database as of 2024.
- Are you an international researcher? I am searching for some researchers who can join our projects.
- Our last project was about COVID-19 and SARS-Cov-2.
- In future projects, we are going to work on other infectious diseases and zoonotic diseases.
- If you think you have high potential in research, don't waste time and send your CV by email to me at sina.salajegheh@gmail.com.
Im trying to find an oligoprimer set for HA gene amplification of H5N1?
I will appreciate if you could point out a primer set for phylohenetic analysis by H5N1 HA gene sequencing.
Legacy of >340,000 dead as of 23 May 2020 & expected another 300,000 deaths in this yr: Should humans still be fond of bush meats? Keep giving a damn to the so-called restoration of the environment & biodiversity; issues of carbon emission & greenhouse effects; health & disease research? Calm to remain busy with war or peace? Going beyond an instinct or abide by judgment, & rationale? Assailing or defend each other?
An outbreak of zoonotic disease named monkey pox has been at the beginning. What is natural/intermediate host of said disease.
We have isolated several strains of an organism from cultures of canine and human blood and subcutaneous nodules (using sterile techniques of course). These isolates have been subcultured on PDA and/or PD nutrient broth and found to be similar in appearance, both the macroscopic colonies, and the microscopic swabs viewed in wet-mount preparations. The organism stains positive with calcoflur white (contains chitin or cellulose) and seems capable of forming a variety of tertiary structures, depending on environmental conditions (ie, hyphae/pseudohyphae, sporocyst-like structures etc..). One universal property is that the small cells/spores etc... become motile within about 15 minutes after addition of sterile water or sterile saline to the smear. The “swimming” pattern appears eukaryotic rather than prokaryotic. I’ve attached a video showing time-lapse of about 25 minutes, during which a drop of stained liquid containing these possible “zoospores” undergoes several morphological changes. We think this represents the process of “zoospore induction” and eventual zoospore settling (maybe with release of stored mucilage etc... causing the white “fluid” appearance that develops upon the termination of “zoospore” motility?). We are awaiting WGS results on the cultured samples, and hopefully those sequencing studies will clarify the identity of these organisms, but in the meantime, we are trying to better understand the “behavior” we are seeing here, and figure out how it might relate to the apparent ability of this organism to infect and cause illness in, mammalian hosts. As far as we know, pythium and lagendium are the only zoospore-forming pathogens currently recognized as mammalian oomycete pathogens. We do not think this organism to be either of those, but we would appreciate help from anyone familiar with the movement patterns of zoospores from those (or other) pathogens to let us know if the movement seems similar to what would be seen in standardly done zoospore induction protocols and/or if there is an explanation for the “bleaching” effect that occurs after the motility ceases. Thank you!
Hello and regards, our study investigates the relationship between latent toxoplasmosis and psychiatric and psychological mental disorders. It is part of my research (Ashkan Latifi, postgraduate student of psychology at University of Tehran- Iran) in partial fulfilment of the requirements of my master’s degree. By filling in this questionnaire, you have been of great help to me and to those with toxoplasmosis. In addition, by optionally sharing your email with me, you allow me to inform you of any possible toxoplasmosis-associated psychological/psychiatric problems in you under the supervision of two professors of University of Tehran (Dr. Abbas Rahiminezhad, psychologist and Dr. Reza Rostami, psychiatrist) for free. You can participate in this study if you have latent toxoplasmosis (other than congenital toxoplasmosis) and are at least 18 years old. The approximate response time to the questionnaire is ten to fifteen minutes. Thank you in advance for your participation in this research.
Link to the questionnaire: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Qvu3J0MuXz56r1d1dZtpWBYHKUmXDByx_3eQ37LRsg0/viewform?edit_requested=true
Do we need to understand zoonotic diseases better to avoid more pandemics in future? Should we all turn vegetarians? Is eating animals the only issue or there are some other human-animal interactions which need to be understood? Will vising the zoos be safe? Or even keeping pet animals?
Please have a logical discussion around these and ask related questions.
We are examining tissue from a cluster of human and canine patients with a similar pattern of systemic illness of unknown cause. All members of the cluster have evidence of motile zoospore-like objects in their blood and other tissue aspirates. Control wet-mount preps from healthy relatives of these patients do not show the presence of such motile objects.
Despite the tiny size of these motile objects, the “swimming” motion seems more consistent with the “falling leaf” forward motility pattern associated with a eukaryotic flagella than with bacterial motility patterns. Also, the staining patterns and SEM appearance of these objects appears more consistent with a eukaryote.
Preliminary sequencing studies have suggested sequence homology with stramnopile-type organisms. We are attempting to sequence cultured colonies of the organism but are having extremely low DNA yields despite robust growth of the organism in culture.
We would appreciate the opinion of those familiar with the morphology and zoospore motility of oomycete and related type organisms about the similarities and differences seen in these movies of motility in unstained, aseptically collected adipose tissue nodules from a patient in this cluster, suspected to be infected with a novel or emerging type of eukaryotic pathogen.





Hello, I am a master student doing my master thesis on bats and zoonotic diseases, whereof we used Nobuto blood filter strips for a blood test.
I have found several articles which have used this method, but none who explain how the blood filter strips actually work. How are these paper strips able to preserve the RNA for up to 2 months in room temperature by drying the blood?
Vets have wide-ranging training in comparative anatomy, pathology and therapeutics. At a time when zoonotic diseases are on everybody's mind and when animal models of human disease remain critical conduits of research discoveries, we want to understand how veterinary knowledge can be leveraged to benefit both humans and animals. Please share your input using the form below. You will be able to see what everybody else has said at the end, unless you're the first respondent!
Thank you!
Zoonotic diseases - which jump from animals to humans - are increasing and will continue to do so without action to protect wildlife and preserve the environment, UN experts have warned.
They blame the rise in diseases such as Covid-19 on high demand for animal protein, unsustainable agricultural practices and climate change.
Neglected zoonotic diseases kill two million people a year, they say.
Covid-19 is set to cost the global economy $9tn (£7.2tn) over two years.
Ebola, West Nile virus and Sars are also all zoonotic diseases: they started in animals, and made the jump to humans.
Report says that the jump is not automatic. It is driven, according to the report by the United Nations Environment Program and the International Livestock Research Institute, by the degradation of our natural environment - for example through land degradation, wildlife exploitation, resource extraction and climate change. This alters the way animals and humans interact.
Source: BBC

I would like to get some information on camels and zoonosis.
what is period of infectivity of NIPAH virus encephalitis and is there any specisic treatment?
Covid-19 and a many of zoonotic diseases, spreading between animals and humans, have been, worldwide, the cause of many historic outbreaks including H1N1 and Ebola. If there is little evidence that eating less meat directly reduces the occurrence of deadly disease outbreaks, Rosie Frost in the “Plant-based diets could prevent a future pandemic” 14/05/2020, reported that “a group of British doctors has backed a call for the end of factory farming to prevent future pandemics like COVID-19”and / or ”There is more information about the meat industry causing diseases than ever before and stronger links between the impacts on our health compared to a meat-free diet.” And “More than 70 per cent of emerging diseases affecting people originated in wildlife and domestic animals”. The UN Environment Programme lists an increased amount of close contact between animals and humans as the most significant risk for zoonotic diseases. Does this “means” that there is a high relationship between meat diet and zoonotic diseases source?
Consumption of wild animals is bound with the rural economy in developing countries. Sometime, demand for Wild Animal Foods (WAF) is very high in developed countries too.
However, experts think the Coronavirus transmitted from live animals to human through the food. If this is a truth, impacts of consumption of wild animals on Global Economy is significant, and enforcement of lows at international level is essential to control this.
I would like to discuss about the feasibility of enforcement of lows at national and international level to control WAT.
I am a member of a group of veterinarians who all became ill within about a years time of each other, and who all were employed in the same physical location. Some of the affected veterinarians also had human and/or canine family members who also went on to develop a very similar illness to that seen in the cluster of veterinarians. The practice facility was inspected by OSHA and traditional medical work-up was done on all of those affected. No unifying etiology could be determined for the "syndrome" of illness described by those affected, but environmental chemicals and psychiatric causes were ruled out. As veterinarians and other types of scientists (affected family members), we recognized that the pattern of illness development appeared most consistent with some type of infectious process (possibly with genetic predispositions to resistance/succeptibility to the agent). The illness appeared to develop in unrelated people who worked at a common site initially, then multiple family members of some affected veterinarians developed a similar illness. Our familiarity with collecting/interpreting FNA/cytology samples allowed us to do some diagnostic tests that are not available in human reference laboratories, and with the encouragement of infectious disease physicians at Mayo and UCD medical centers we began some carefully controlled cytology tests on samples provided by those affected with the "syndrome" of illness, as well as samples from healthy control family members/colleagues.
What we have found is an incredibly consistent pattern of fibers/filaments, copiously present in the urine of those affected individuals, and completely absent in the healthy controls. Initially we suspected the filaments to be a possible nematode, but further tests demonstrated that there were also more fragile yeast-like objects and highly organized fruiting-body-like structures associated with the filaments. We also found the filaments and "spores" in subcutaneous nodules, cyst fluid, sputum, and blood cultures from those affected. These details, along with positive staining for chitin by lactophenol cotton blue and calcofluor-white, and positive staining for a thick mucopolysaccharide coat by Alacian Blue- led us to modify the hypothesis and consider that these objects could indicate a fungal or pseudofungal infection.
Many permutations of cytology tests (always coupled with control studies of the same tissues in healthy counterparts) have led us to suspect that we may be seeing some type of oomycete, somewhat similar to Pythium or Lagenisma. We have attempted sequencing, but not gotten consistent results and/or have gotten reports of sequences that are either truncated or reported as different types of fungi, none of which are obviously close relatives of oomycetes. Since this research is unfunded, we have not been able to pursue as much molecular testing as would be ideal. The UCD infectious disease physician did agree that the images were compelling, but not his primary field of study. He/we filed a report with the CDC about the possiblity of this being an emerging/novel human pathogen, but the CDC has not replied to his follow-up requests for assistance in characterizing the findings.
I realize our involvement in this research is both non-traditional and that those of us doing it have motivations beyond that which drives most research. However, we have had enough independent scientists/physicians corroborate our perception that we are seeing something "not normal" in the tissues/fluids of those affected compared to the healthy controls, and encourage us to continue to try to find answers, that I feel compelled to post our findings thus far and ask for opinions and advice. We are hoping that someone, much more expert in mycology/protistology than us might be willing to review these images and offer their perspective. Also, if there is anyone actively pursuing ( or wanting to pursue) this line of research, we are happy to share all of our data gathered thus far, in hopes that it may lead to faster and more thorough characterization of what we have found, and hopefully application to determine which chronic diseases may have this putative infection as a component of their etiology.
Thanks!





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Hello, there is more background in our overview page, but briefly- we are a group of veterinarians who came across unusual microscopic findings in a group of dogs and their owners (who happened to also be veterinarians) with an otherwise unexplained syndrome involving hematuria, chronic fibrosis of deep connective tissues, chronic cough, fatigue, and neuropathy. Both the dogs and their owners had a thorough medical work-up in which the cause of illness cold not be determined. Several other close human contacts of the original humans/dogs affected also developed similar symptoms over the following year. Some of the humans have had plateau of their symptoms while others have continued to worsen. The structures shown in attached images were found in the urine, blood, needle aspirates of subcutaneous nodules, and sometimes sputum of the affected individuals (canine and human) and not in healthy family members (matched controls)- this finding was confirmed by blinded readings of the affected vs. control cytology samples. CDC has been informed of these findings and may begin an investigation, though they are hobbled by the current COVID crisis and also relayed that they do not have a pathologist on staff trained to read this type of cytology!? So, we are asking your help in determining if the objects shown do seem to match the criteria for some type of protist (or other organism?), or if they are some type of unusual artifact. We have attempted sequencing without success, but this may be hampered by a thick glue-like mucus that seems to be produced by the organisms binding everything in the near vicinity tightly together. As veterinarians, our knowledge of invertebrate zoology is limited- but collectively, we thought that the objects seemed to resemble cysts of amoebae or perhaps ciliates, or even myxozoans. They are protected by a very stain-resistant outer "shell" (test?) that seems made of aggregates of regional debris. However, some layers stain well with Alcian Blue/Aniline Blue and negative staining with Nigrosan helped to clarify the appearance of some of the objects. The white surface is very birefringent, so we were only able to get clear micrographs when stacking software was used to improve focal range. Some features seemed similar to entamoeba histolytic, but the outer cyst wall is too thick in many examples. Some resembled Blastocystis- with a large central vacuole, but again, there were inconsistencies with that identification as well. If anyone can point out specific details/features that suggest real organism vs artifact, and/or label any of the details for us to give us some landmarks to follow (we though we were seeing distinct nuclei, but were not certain...) that would be extremely helpful.

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New Institute Proposed in India, IDDRI (Indian Disease Dissemination Research Institute). Some details are available at
Hello, everyone
Now, I plan to design my experiment about hookworm parasite infection. So, I want to know what i should do in blood test for hookworm infection in golden hamster. I saw in many publications that used a measuring hemoglobin level only. Why do the CBC and HCT blood test is not use?
Thank you for your kind response
Sarit
I see that human doctors do not know interpret a clinical condition of a zoonotic diseases in their patients. Why? Veterinarians study so much about zoonosis. Zoonosis = a transmissible disease that infect humans from animals.
Hello,
We are a group of veterinarians looking into repeatable findings of unusual structures found in a group of animals with similar unusual complaints of unexplained hematuria, tender subcutaneous nodules, and easy fatiguability. We have repeatably found tiny fibers and tube or shell-shaped calcified structures in tissue samples from these animals. So far, we have been unable to definitively characterize the species that may be producing these objects, but light and electron microscopic studies have led us to consider a novel polychaete or mollusk, or even possibly something really unusual such as an organized myxozoan. One of the most obvious and unusual features of these organisms is that they contain fibers (possibly chaetae?) that can evert plume/fan-like structures from their tips, and sometimes from portions along their lengths. These fibers are quite small- generally only 5-10 microns wide, and potentially 200-400 microns long. Despite their small size, they repeatably contain a very intricate and complex system of pulleys, levers, ratchets, etc.. that we presume are present to evert the fan-like structures- which may be used for respiration/feeding? The fibers are highly refractive, and seem to contain tiny crystalline "gears". Portions of the fibers will stain with crystal violet and/or Safranin O, but in general, the fibers stain poorly with the standard H&E type histology stains. In addition to the fibers, there are often structures seen which resemble trophozoite stages of polychaete or mollusk-like organisms. (photos available in data files related to this project).
Is anyone familiar with organisms that have these features? We would be very grateful for any thoughts about what organism these fibers may be coming from, and/or links to any reference papers or atlas etc... that describes these structures and might help us focus our search for an identify of this possible novel parasitic organism. While we began our search in the veterinary patient population, we have evidence suggesting that this putative organism may be a zoonotic agent to immunosuppressed human patients. So, we are very eager to learn more about the candidate organisms that could produce such fibers, and relay those suggestions to the physicians of human patients who may be hosts of this possible novel pathogen.
Thanks you for your time and expertise!


Full history is in the project description, but briefly- a team of other veterinarians/colleagues and myself have stumbled across a case of multiple animals that have similar symptoms and are co-housed. Their presentation suggests an infectious disease, but no known infectious agent could be found despite thorough work-up. However, cytology samples from clean aspirates of subcutaneous nodules and urine filtrate (they have bloody urine) seems to be showing repeated structures that do not appear mammalian in origin. We seek to understand if these structures are some type of very organized artifact, or if they instead suggest that there may be some very unusual/novel type of organism (Annelid or Polychaete esp.) causing/involved-in these animals illnesses. Thank you for your time!



The Govt. of India proposes to declare India free of Tuberculosis probably by 2025. TB being a zoonotic disease and Mycobacterium bovis being known to be resistant to first line anti-tb drugs, poor milk and meat hygiene all make a case for parallel animal TB eradication program if we really intend to eradicate the disease.
What are the possible negative effects of the low-dosage drug on the people who drink the water? Have there any been studies that look at its effectiveness?
If the virus is detected in serological and molecular tests is it interpreted as potentially zoonotic?
Brucellosis are the main zoonotic disease in Iraq i want to know the new article for this subject
I've read several protocols that specify that human blood for cultural isolation of Brucella spp is refrigerated at -4 celsius for not more than a week. My study areas are remote and the research lab is far away and it would take me weeks to pool my samples together and get them to this lab.
I need the Literature related to Studies on Environmental Drivers of Zoonoses. It is actually survey study, so need methodologies to adopted to achieve below goals;
The objectives of the study are
. To identify and evaluate pathogenic and zoonotic diseases
. To establish the prevalence of diseases in wild, live stock and domestic animals
. To access the gravity of animal-human diseases transmission.
So anyone having papers related to the study could please send the same.
I want to find out about the relation of zoonotic infectious diseases (like Toxoplasmosis, Ehrlichia, Rickettsia, Anaplasmosis, Yersinia and Borrelia of cattle, ruminants and marmals) which spread between animals and humans and lead to infections of farmers and other workers in rural areas.
In the veterinary literature the infections of animals with zoonotic diseases are very well documented. The vectors of the transfer from animal to animal and to humans are known, too. Also the occurrence of pathogens in ticks, sandflies and other bloodsucking insects is examined very well.
What I wish to know is
a) whether there is any insight into the numbers of infected persons who have worked with or nearby infected animals or their excrements like slurry, manure or the like and
b) how many of the infected persons are co-infected or multi-infected by multiple zoonotic pathogens at the same time?
I do intend to carry out a pilot test on the efficiency of barn owl Tyto alba to reduce rodent infestation in urban affected tropical zones. I would like to know the most challenging factors faced by anyone who ever had done such project. Give advice and share the results, please. Many thanks.
I want any suggestions for online websites which contain updated information concerning emerging infectious diseases.
Thanks in advance
I am looking for types of iatrogenic infections caused by insuitable human handling into veretinary area. The iatrogenic infections could occur due an inadequated use of contaminated syringes or needles use, through of drugs applied on animals or some another type of syringes utilization.
Thanks in advances.
Intestinal fluke infection (Fasciolpsis busk) is considered endemic in Bangladesh. But I did not find any report for liver fluke infection in Bangladesh.
As we all know fishes also transmitting some of the zoonotic disease, in India even though many road side meat stalls exists, somehow our government maintaining slaughter houses and doing meat inspection before selling the meat and road side meat stalls will be frequently visited by meat inspectors or authority vets. But i don't know whether is there any same kind of inspection practices has been done for fishes also?
Newcastle disease virus is one of the important viruses in poultry it causes outbreaks with high mortality and morbidity moreover,it has zoonotic importance it can affect human result in conjunctivitis with flu-like signs my question is how does it affect human cell ? .Is there are specific receptors for which ? and if so how does it replicate inside human cells .
I know that regarding the concentration of primers I've have to used 4 to 5x more and I've done that. However only one species amplifies. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance! :)
Now a days most of the people having pet dogs in their home, Brucella canis is considered as a one of the potential zoonotic pathogen and it has greater public health significance.
As per my knowledge most of the serological assay kits utilizes the smooth phase Brucella species as their antigen substrates, but it won't detect rough phase B. canis antibodies. Even though culturing is considered as a gold standard test for Brucella canis detection, it is very laborious process we need wait upto 4 weeks for the results. There are some primers available to detect the B. canis but it is very expensive, for screening purpose we can't afford that much amount.
Is there any simple and economically feasible method to detect Brucella canis from clinical samples for screening purpose in dogs?
Natural competitors redcude vector populations by displacing the vectors and replacing infective with non-infective bites.
this is the sort of chemical some researchers were suggesting as a possible way to interfere with the mosquito's life cycle. What sort of effects would that have! http://www.gmwatch.org/news/latest-news/16706-argentine-and-brazilian-doctors-name-larvicide-as-potential-cause-of-microcephaly
Zika virus is considered to be more or less restricted to tropical countries. However, transmission might be possible when a competent vector (Aedes species) is present. But, the presence of a vector is not sufficient. Warm summer periods might bring favourable conditions for transmission via ektothermal insects also outside of the tropics. With climate warming, these regions are likely to increase in extent. As far as I know, there is no knowledge on the EIP (extrinsic incubation period), which would be needed to assess whether regions and periods with the risk for transmission will evolve. Are there any hard facts, data, exeriments that can be used or applied to this virus.
I would like to conduct DNA barcoding of parasites from a stool sample of a monkey. I don't know if there are protocols for extract parasitic DNA from stool sample.
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looking for information on on several zoonotic dz for an assignment. Ornithosis is one of them if anyone knows of an article relating to this infection in New Zealand I would be grateful.
I am interested in what programs and policies have proved effective in controlling Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) in South American countries, and also in the analysis of resulting benefits, as for example export expansion.
I am writing a paper and cannot find any information on whether or not there is a difference in size or shape of PCV1 and PCV2?
All researchers are welcome to send camel sera from suspected areas together with retropharngeal and/ or supramammary lymph nodes. Sera will be screened with the buffered acidified plate antigen test and confirmed with the complement fixation test. Lymph nodes will be bacteriological examined for Brucella and isolates identified to the biovar level. The sender will be responsible for sending the samples by a suitable means according to the international regulations. Lab testing will be performed at no charge to the sender. Any additional lab work can be arranged for by the cooperating parties. Results will be included in a collaborative publication. I’m looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Non-host mechanical vectors are frequently overlooked as transmitters and/or disseminators of pathogens in agricultural, sylvatic, and urban systems. This may be particularly important for zoonotic pathogens in agricultural ecosystems, but depending on the geographical location and the particular pathogens involved, there may be a range of possibilities. For example, trachoma is transmitted among humans by synanthropic flies even in some urban settings. We have been studying this at various locations, focusing on zoonotic enteric protists such as Cryptosporidium and Giardia, as well as microsporidia. To gain a more comprehensive understanding of non-host vectors of pathogens around the world, I seek input on diverse specific experiences.
I wish to know if anyone has experience with the use of FTA cards for the collection, safe transport, and preservation of rabies samples.
Gastropods and other molluscs are often obligate hosts for trematode parasites, many of which are important pathogens. I am interested in developing a list of such molluscs that show the potential for invasion of new habitats around the world, and argue that there is a need for more biomonitoring for such situations as potential emerging disease threats of humans and/or animals.
Frontier research has been recently impulsed and defined for multiple sciences, included some health sciences, however what about specificly for veterinary medicine?
Giardia intestinalis is divided into different groups based on rRNA sequences, although grouping and taxonomy is changing rapidly from year to year.
Ticks and fleas can transmit some bacteria affecting humans, in ours work, we detect bartonella, ehrlichia, rickettsia, Yersinia Pesti, Borrelia and francisella tularensis in hare’s ectoparasites. If you can help me to obtain some items or documentation in this topic?
I was wondering if anyone was aware of any examples of evidence for zoonotic transmission of pathogens from lemurs to humans or vice versa?
Rodents are reservoirs of many zoonotic diseases to human and their infested fleas,mites,ticks and lice act as vehicles transmitters of infections to man.What is best apply ant-ratting or insecticide first?
Two patients infected with Ebola virus have now entered the U.S. for treatment, but they are in a highly controlled environment. However, while the press and the public have been very aware of this, we still have black market transfer of "bush meat", fresh animal flesh from Africa to other parts of the world, outside any regulation for potential disease transmission. Could it be that while the media and public focus on a contained and controlled situation that is unlikely to result in an Ebola outbreak outside Africa, we are largely ignoring a more significant Ebola threat via other means of introduction?
I have lots of sequences to align and I used to use MEGA6 but it takes forever to finish one multiple alignment session. I need a faster and a more accurate way of obtaining my multiple alignments.
As we know in most parts of the world at present rabies is prevalent as a deadly zoonotic disease. It is challenging for both the medics as well as for the vets to get rid of the virus from a locality or a region. What basic disease eradication and control strategies must be followed under such circumstances?
I am getting ready to start a small project where I will be looking at the internal parasite of various rodents. I would like to look at both helminths and protozoa. I plan to collect cecal contents and intestinal mucosal scrapings, fix them and use them later to stain for protozoa. Does anyone have suggestions as to a good fixative to use, 10% formalin, SAF, etc.?