Showing posts with label veterinary medicine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label veterinary medicine. Show all posts

Friday, 1 August 2014

Cryptosporidiosis appears to be an occupational disease in Estonia

A new case study has just been published that challenge the mysterious absence of reported cases in Estonia of the diarrhoea causing disease cryptosporidiosis.

The article provide evidence that the infections from cattle to humans may be a specific subtype of Cryptosporidium parvum - so far reported found mainly in humans and animals in Eastern European countries.

The full article is available for download by following this link:
Lassen, Brian; Ståhl, Marie; Heidi, L. Enemark (2014). Cryptosporidiosis – an occupational risk and a disregarded disease in Estonia. Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica, 56(36), 1 - 3.

Friday, 30 May 2014

Defense of a graduation thesis on Toxoplasma gondii

Upcoming defense in parasitology

Kärt Must
Toxoplasma gondii Seroprevalence in Cats in Estonia
Graduation thesis in veterinary medicine
Link to study summary

Location and time:
Estonian University of Life Sciences
Kreutzwaldi 62, room A201
Tartu
Estonia

Date: June 5th 2014
Time: 9:00

Supervisors: Pikka Jokelainen and Brian Lassen
Opponent: Marika Masso, University of Tartu