Development of an enzyme linked immunosorbent assay using recombinant cathepsin B5 antigen for sero-surveillance of bovine tropical fasciolosis.

Bovine tropical fasciolosis, caused by Fasciola gigantica, is a major parasitic disease in tropical countries responsible for significant production losses in animal husbandry practices. The disease is transmitted by the Radix sp. snails.

Silent Trypanosoma evansi infection in humans from India revealed by serological and molecular surveys, and characterized by variable surface glycoprotein gene sequences.

Background: The importance of emerging atypical human trypanosomosis is gaining momentum due to increasing detection and its possible impact on human health. A cross sectional study of atypical human trypanosomosis due to Trypanosoma evansi was carried out in Kolkata and Canning area of West Bengal state of India where previously a death was reported.

Methods: In this study blood and serum samples from 173 individuals were collected during August to December 2014.

Existence of genetic lineages within Asian genotype of Taenia solium-Genetic characterization based on mitochondrial and ribosomal DNA markers.

Taenia solium cysticercosis is a potentially eradicable neglected zoonotic disease with public health importance. The genetic lineages of T. solium in Asia and Africa/America are distinct and the genetic composition of the parasite was found to influence the clinical symptoms in patients with cysticercosis.