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Reptiles are used for various purposes these days, including public exhibits, medicinal applications, and as laboratory animals. As the international exchange of reptiles has gradually increased, more people have had...
This article briefly reviews parasites transmitted by food materials and their diseases in Korea. They are taxonomically classified into 31 species of helminths, which include nematodes(6 species), trematodes(20), cestodes(6), and...
Iran bears a remarkable variety of reptiles. One of the lizard families occurring in Iran is the Family Agamidae which is widely are distributed throughout the old world. The large-scaled...
The high resistance to infections in lizard wounds suggests that these reptiles possess effective antimicrobial peptides in their tissues. The present immunocytochemical study shows the cellular localization of beta-defensin 27...
Lee JM, Bae SH, Lee SN, Park KH, Park CK, Yoon HK, Song JS
KMID: 2263533
Korean J Med.
2012 Jun;82(6):734-738.
Coccidioidomycosis, a fungal infection caused by the fungus known as Coccidioides immitis, can affect many species of mammals and some reptiles. The fungus is endemic in the soil of the...
Nontyphoidal Salmonella are gram negative bacilli organism, which may induce systemic infection such as febrile enteritis, bacteremia, and osteomyelitis. Main route of infection is known as food but also possible...
Prion proteins (PrPs) are infectious pathogens that cause a group of invariably fatal, neurodegenerative diseases, including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, by means of an entirely novel mechanism. They are produced by various...