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J Travel Med    

Family compliance with counseling for children traveling to the tropics.

Caillet-Gossot S, Laporte R, Noël G, Gautret P, Soula G, Delmont J, Faucher B, Parola P, Osei L, Minodier P

Pediatric Emergency Unit.

The number of people, both adults and children, traveling abroad, is on the rise. Some seek counseling at travel medicine centers before departure.... Read More

Source: PubMed

Infect Ecol Epidemiol    

The diversity of microparasites of rodents: a comparative analysis that helps in identifying rodent-borne rich habitats in Southeast Asia.

Bordes F, Herbreteau V, Dupuy S, Chaval Y, Tran A, Morand S

Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, CNRS-IRD-UM2, Université de Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France.

Predicting habitats prone to favor disease transmission is challenging due to confounding information on habitats, reservoirs, and diseases. Comparati... Read More

Source: PubMed

Glob Health Action    

Climate change threats to population health and well-being: the imperative of protective solutions that will last.

Kjellstrom T, McMichael AJ

Division of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeĺ Centre for Global Health Research, Umeĺ University, Umeĺ, Sweden; kjellstromt@yahoo.com.

Background: The observational evidence of the impacts of climate conditions on human health is accumulating. A variety of direct, indirect, and system... Read More

Source: PubMed

PLoS ONE    

Occurrence of Regulated and Emerging Iodinated DBPs in the Shanghai Drinking Water.

Wei X, Chen X, Wang X, Zheng W, Zhang D, Tian D, Jiang S, Ong CN, He G, Qu W

Key Laboratory of the Public Health Safety, Ministry of Education, Department of Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China ; Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, China.

Drinking water chlorination plays a pivotal role in preventing pathogen contamination against water-borne disease. However, chemical disinfection lead... Read More

Source: PubMed

J. Sci. Food Agric.  2013 Mar 28  

The Challenges For Global Harmonization Of Food Safety Norms And Regulations : Issues For India.

Prakash J

Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Mysore, Mysore, 570 006, INDIA.

Safe and adequate food is a human right issue, safety being a prime quality attribute without which food is unfit for consumption. Food safety regulat... Read More

Source: PubMed

Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol.    

Development of biological soil disinfestations in Japan.

Momma N, Kobara Y, Uematsu S, Kita N, Shinmura A

Institute for Horticultural Plant Breeding, 2-5-1 Kamishiki, Matsudo, Chiba, 270-2221, Japan.

Biological soil disinfestations (BSDs) were developed separately in Japan and in The Netherlands as an alternative to chemical fumigations. In Japan, ... Read More

Source: PubMed

Water Res.  2013 Mar 15  

Contamination of Canadian private drinking water sources with antimicrobial resistant Escherichia coli.

Coleman BL, Louie M, Salvadori MI, McEwen SA, Neumann N, Sibley K, Irwin RJ, Jamieson FB, Daignault D, Majury A, Braithwaite S, Crago B, McGeer AJ

Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address: b.coleman@utoronto.ca.

BACKGROUND: Surface and ground water across the world, including North America, is contaminated with bacteria resistant to antibiotics. The consumptio... Read More

Source: PubMed

Adv. Parasitol.    

Tradition and transition: parasitic zoonoses of people and animals in alaska, northern Canada, and greenland.

Jenkins EJ, Castrodale LJ, de Rosemond SJ, Dixon BR, Elmore SA, Gesy KM, Hoberg EP, Polley L, Schurer JM, Simard M, Thompson RC

Department of Veterinary Microbiology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5B4, Canada.

Zoonotic parasites are important causes of endemic and emerging human disease in northern North America and Greenland (the North), where prevalence of... Read More

Source: PubMed

Diagn. Microbiol. Infect. Dis.  2013 Mar 27  

Genetic diversity and antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coli from environmental surface water in Dhaka City, Bangladesh.

Kamruzzaman M, Shoma S, Bari SM, Ginn AN, Wiklendt AM, Partridge SR, Faruque SM, Iredell JR

Centre for Research Excellence in Critical Infection and Sydney Institute for Emerging Infections and Biosecurity, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Westmead Millennium Institute, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia; Centre for Food and Water Borne Diseases, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Mohakhali, Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh.

The extended-spectrum ß-lactamase gene blaCTX-M-15 was almost ubiquitous in diverse antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli isolated from surface water ... Read More

Source: PubMed

PLoS ONE    

Oral Ingestion of Transgenic RIDL Ae. aegypti Larvae Has No Negative Effect on Two Predator Toxorhynchites Species.

Nordin O, Donald W, Ming WH, Ney TG, Mohamed KA, Halim NA, Winskill P, Hadi AA, Muhammad ZS, Lacroix R, Scaife S, McKemey AR, Beech C, Shahnaz M, Alphey L, Nimmo DD, Nazni WA, Lee HL

Medical Entomology Unit, Institute for Medical Research, Jalan Pahang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Dengue is the most important mosquito-borne viral disease. No specific treatment or vaccine is currently available; traditional vector control methods... Read More

Source: PubMed


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Posted by:  minahil.zia(Guest)  Posted on: 12/17/2012
i get to much imformation for my work and that's really helpful . thanks



Posted by:  Rahul_Rathi(Guest)  Posted on: 07/27/2011
Very helpful information I think we should use water purifiers like Kent for making the water clean. so that we can keep the water borne diseases away. It's also our responsibility to keep the water sources clean.



Posted by:  sanjogundale(Guest)  Posted on: 03/14/2011
This is not possiable sea water will affect our body and cause for any water desease. In weakness we are using salted water for enery and well recovery of body. Sooo 101% possibility is t sunami [ sea water 0 never effect or not cuase for any water diseases



Posted by:  sundar_hi  Posted on: 10/14/2009
Is there Still any serotype of vibrio cholera? If present which states are prone to get outbreak?



Posted by:  guest  Posted on: 01/09/2008
excellent information wonderful piece of information


Posted by:  guest  Posted on: 09/03/2009
ya excellent information but not enough.. because i want some more information.



Posted by:  guest  Posted on: 06/29/2010
fine




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