Hydatidosis/Echinococcosis an important zoonosis caused by metacestode of the dog worm Echinococcus granulosus, is world wide in distribution with both sylvatic and pastoral epidemiology.The parasite has an indirect life cycle utilizing dogs and other canids as definitive hosts and many herbivorous and omnivorous species, including wildlife and domesticated livestock as intermediate hosts. E. granulosus has a number of genetically distinct strains, which are known to differ phenotypically and therefore has implications for its control. To date, ten genotypes (G1 - G10) of E. granulosus have...

Toxoplasma gondii is a well-known obligate intracellular protozoan pathogen of virtually all warm-blooded animals and commonly infects humans worldwide. Toxoplasma gondii infection can cause severe sickness in host species. Acute infection of toxoplasmosis in early pregnancy of women carries the peril of transmitting the infection to the fetus with serious problems. Present study was conducted to find out seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in pregnant women of the Lady Willingdon hospital Lahore. Serological testing was performed on 86 pregnant women. ELISA technique was used to...

Effect of zinc in pre-eclamtic pregnant women were observed in this study. The blood samples were collected from the pregnant women.The subject group comprised of 105 pregnant women of all three trimesters.The control group comprised of 12 samples of non-pregnant women.Atomic absorption spectrophotometer was used to determine the zinc level in the blood serum samples.The overall blood zinc level (mg/L) of subject groups S1, S2 and S3 in different trimesters were 0.78, 0.53, 0.56 respectively, while in control group was 0.61. The blood zinc level of subject group S1 was non-significantly...