Toxoplasmosis (synonym: litter box disease) was formerly originated in wildlife species, since the discovery of Toxoplasma oocyst in 1970, Toxoplasma was known as one of the most worldwide distributed zoonotic diseases. Approximately one-third of the world's human population are Toxoplasma affected with more than 60 million of individuals only in USA are infected with toxoplasmosis. According to the public health importance of toxoplasmosis, some European countries implemented up-to-date surveillance systems for the legislation, notification and surveillance of toxoplasmosis.In Egypt, high...

Query fever (Q fever) is a serious old recognized poorly understood major anthropozoonosis distributed all over the world except in the Antarctic and New Zealand. Coxiella burnetii (the cause of Q fever) is a highly contagious Gram negative bacterium that was categorized under the class Gammaproteobacteria and showed ability to survive in the environment for long periods, infecting humans, many species of domestic and wild animals, domestic and wild birds, reptiles, ticks and even marine mammals. In Egypt, Q fever was not considered a potential problem till 1952 as demonstrated by the absence...