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Toxoplasmosis is a zoonotic disease caused by Toxoplasma gondii. It is of public health importance because of the economic loss caused in food animals and the severe disease it causes in fetuses through their pregnant mother and immune-compromised individuals. Despite this fact, there are still...

This study described the prevalence of avian influenza viruses in wild waterfowl and domestic birds on the wetlands of Northern Zambia (Luapula and Northern Provinces). The purpose of the research was to establish if there are any influenza viruses circulating in this region in order to determine...

Monthly faecal gastrointestinal nematode egg counts, coprocultures, differential larval counts and packed cell volumes of goats (according to age classes <6 months, 6 months to 1 year, 1 year to 2 years, more than 2 years) from two traditional farming areas (Chipembi and Shibuyunji) in Central...

Cryptosporidium parvum has become increasingly important in ruminants in recent years as an etiological agent of neonatal diarrhoea complex causing significant economic losses. Cryptosporidium parvum "bovine genotype" found in ruminants is also zoonotic causing life threatening diarrhoea in...