A5056522258- Parasitic infections in humans and animals
- Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics
- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
- Congenital Anomalies and Fetal Surgery
- Vector-borne infectious diseases
- Bird parasitology and diseases
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Avian ecology and behavior
University of Zurich
2021-2025
Wellcome Centre for Molecular Parasitology
2024
University of Glasgow
2024
University of Bern
2024
Abstract Cystic and alveolar echinococcosis are severe zoonotic diseases characterized by long asymptomatic periods lasting months or years. Viable Echinococcus eggs released into the environment through feces of canids can infect humans accidental ingestion via hand-to-mouth contact consumption contaminated food water. Both multilocularis granulosus sensu lato considered as foodborne parasites. However, when considering possible pathways human infection, it appears that water-borne related...
The detection of Echinococcus multilocularis in infected canids and the environment is pivotal for a better understanding epidemiology alveolar echinococcosis endemic areas. Necropsy/sedimentation counting technique remain gold standard canid infection. PCR-based methods have shown high sensitivity specificity, but they been hardly used large scale prevalence studies. Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) fast simple method to detect DNA with having potential field-application. A...
Abstract The diagnosis of human taeniosis can be achieved through coproscopy, ELISA or PCR. An important limitation these methods is the high turnaround time for stool sample collection and preparation, indicating need a straightforward sampling strategy. Due to metabolic activity reproductive potential Taenia spp. , we hypothesise that parasite DNA (cells eggs) present in peri-anal region host exploited as target molecular diagnosis. We evaluated feasibility recovering from area foxes...
<title>Abstract</title> Background Avian malaria is caused by diverse parasite species of the genus <italic>Plasmodium</italic>, and it affects various bird species. The occurrence this disease in wild birds understudied due to scarce availability samples. Hence pathogenicity these hosts not completely known. In addition, feral may act as reservoirs bridging transmission cycle from migratory domestic zoo-kept We report here <italic>P. relictum</italic> a pigeon. Case presentation: died...
Abstract There are no scientific data available on the occurrence of Echinococcus granulosus sensu lato ( s.l. ) cluster in definitive hosts (domestic dogs), intermediate livestock) nor humans Cape Verde. In this pilot study, environmental dog fecal samples n = 369) were collected around food markets, official slaughterhouses, as well home and small business slaughter spots 8 9 inhabited islands from Verde archipelago, between June 2021 March 2022. Additionally, during same period, 40 cysts...