FOOD PRODUCT CONTAMINATION RISKS AT DIFFERENT STAGES OF PRODUCTION by O. I. Lavrukhina, V. G. Amelin, L. B. Prokhvatilova, O. I. Ruchnova

“…Feed can be a potential source of contamination of raw materials and animal food products as a result of bioaccumulation and transfer of toxic agents and their metabolites to meat, offal, milk and eggs. Total risk for humans will be determined basing not only on consumption of plant products containing toxins, but also on secondary contaminants (toxins and their metabolites) getting in to the body with food products and animal raw materials.…”
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Implications of Prevalence and Intensity of Soil-Transmitted Helminthes (STHs) on Rural Farmers’ Productivity in Selected Districts of Sierra Leone by Mohamed Ngegba, Emmanuel Hinckley, Muctar Koroma, Alfred Ngegba, Oladimeji Oladele

“…The result indicates a prevalence of parasitic infection among farmers shown by 58.4% eggs/ova in stool from the three districts. STH prevalence is higher in Bo (64.0%), Koinadugu (56.9%), and Kailahun (51,7%). …”
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Differential Coding of Fruit, Leaf, and Microbial Odours in the Brains of <i>Drosophila suzukii</i> and <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i> by Claire Dumenil, Gülsüm Yildirim, Albrecht Haase

“…Unlike <i>D. melanogaster</i>, which reproduces on overripe and fermenting fruits on the ground, <i>D. suzukii</i> prefers to lay its eggs in ripening fruits still on the plants. Flies locate fruit hosts by their odorant volatiles, which are detected and encoded by a highly specialised olfactory system before being translated into behaviour. …”
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Effects of Climate Change on Malaria Risk to Human Health: A Review by Dereba Muleta Megersa, Xiao-San Luo

“…Strong storms wash <i>Anopheles</i>’ eggs and reproduction habitat. It limits reproduction and affects disease outbreaks. …”
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Seasonal Prevalence of Helminthic Infections in the Gastrointestinal Tract of Sheep in Mazandaran Province, Northern Iran by Alireza Salehi, Mahsa Razavi, Nasrollah Vahedi Nouri

“…It was also noted that winter had the lowest percentage of helminthic infection significantly. The eggs per gram of feces was also estimated, and it showed that a significant number of sheep are infected with a moderate number of parasites. …”
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Association between Maternal Dietary Diversity and Low Birth Weight in Central India: A Case-Control Study by Shantanu Sharma, Sonali Maheshwari, Sunil Mehra

“…Women’s diets mainly consisted of grains, such as wheat, rice, maize, and roots and tubers. Eggs and meat were consumed by less than 1% of the women. …”
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Factors associated with iron deficiency aneamia among pregnant women at Chuk hospital in Kigali, Rwanda by Mercy Nwankwo, Chinenye, Hashim Abdullahi, Fardosa

“…A balanced diet, rich in proteins, iron and vitamins from good sources like liver, meat, eggs, green peas, figs, beans, whole wheat and green bananas remains very critical in tackling iron deficiency anaemia problem among the pregnant women. …”
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Higher intakes of lysine, threonine and valine are inversely associated with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease risk: A community-based case-control study in the Chinese elderly by Xueqi Li, Wenjun Ma, Ting Yang, Chong Wang, Wei Zhang, Hui Li, Ting Zhao, Xiaofei Guo

“…Conclusion: The present study demonstrated that the dietary increases in milk, eggs and deep-sea fish, which are rich in the amino acids, might contribute to protecting against NAFLD in the elderly.…”
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The limits of restrictions on free competition in the state of emergency—the Hungarian fuel and food retail price maximisation in the light of the Hungarian constitutional court’s,... by Csaba Erdős, Viktória Verebélyi, László Knapp

“…Economic regulation was no exception: in 2021, the Government capped the retail price of fuel, and from February 2022 onwards, the retail price of several basic foodstuffs (including flour, sugar, milk, chicken breast and other meats, and later eggs and potatoes). The aim of this paper is to show the limits of one of the most powerful state interventions in the economy: the price maximisation. …”
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Maternal exposure to tris (2-butoxyethyl) phosphate induces F0 female reproductive toxicity and offspring developmental toxicity in zebrafish by Anqi Dong, Wenqian Lei, Weiqi Zhou, Wenwen Li, Jianghua Wang

“…Additionally, a notable reduction in protein level in eggs and the gene expression of both the hormone/insulin-like growth factor (GH/IGF) and hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid (HPT) pathways were observed. …”
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Multiple hosts, multiple impacts: the role of vertebrate host diversity in shaping mosquito life history and pathogen transmission by Vantaux, Amélie, Moiroux, Nicolas, Dabiré, Kounbobr Roch, Cohuet, Anna, Lefèvre, Thierry

“…Specifically, mosquitoes that were fed successive chicken blood meals produced fewer eggs and fewer and smaller F1 adults compared to those fed human blood. …”
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Maternal Dietary Patterns and Gestational Diabetes Risk: A Case-Control Study by Fatemeh Sedaghat, Mahdieh Akhoondan, Mehdi Ehteshami, Vahideh Aghamohammadi, Nila Ghanei, Parvin Mirmiran, Bahram Rashidkhani

“…Western dietary pattern was high in sweets, jams, mayonnaise, soft drinks, salty snacks, solid fat, high-fat dairy products, potatoes, organ meat, eggs, red meat, processed foods, tea, and coffee. …”
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Developing a novel TaqMan qPCR assay for optimizing Salmonella Pullorum detection in chickens by Hao Wang, Xiamei Kang, Longhai Yu, Haijian Wang, Anja Müller, Corinna Kehrenberg, Yan Li, Min Yue

“…Salmonella Pullorum, the causative agent of pullorum disease, posing a significant threat to the global production of poultry meat and eggs. However, existing detection methods have substantial limitations in efficiency and accuracy. …”
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Clonorchis sinensis and Echinostoma hortense detected by endoscopy and molecular characterization: two case reports and update on diagnosis by Lijia Wen, Benhe Wang, Hui Zhang

“…Based on the morphology of the worms and their eggs, an initial diagnosis of Echinostoma was made. …”
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Lifestyle and Dietary Factors Associated with the Evolution of Cardiometabolic Risk over Four Years in West-African Adults: The Benin Study by Charles Sossa, Hélène Delisle, Victoire Agueh, Roger Sodjinou, Gervais Ntandou, Michel Makoutodé

“…A food score based on consumption frequency of four “sentinel” food groups (meat and poultry, dairy, eggs, and vegetables) was developed. Lifestyle included physical activity, alcohol and tobacco use. …”
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Detection of Urinary Tract Pathology in Some Schistosoma haematobium Infected Nigerian Adults by O. S. Onile, H. O. Awobode, V. S. Oladele, A. M. Agunloye, C. I. Anumudu

“…The intensity of infections was mostly light (55) (21.8%) compared to heavy (10) (3.9%) with the mean intensity of 16.7 eggs/10 mL urine. Structural bladder pathology prevalence among participants was 33.9%. …”
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Colonial breeding impacts potentially fitness-relevant cognitive processes in barn swallows by Angela Medina-García, Ellen Scherner, Molly T. McDermott, Mark E. Hauber, Rebecca J. Safran

“…Finally, birds that showed higher selective attention hatched more eggs and birds that returned to their nests more quickly after a predator intrusion had more nestlings. …”
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PCR-Based Detection of Babesia ovis in Rhipicephalus bursa and Small Ruminants by Bijan Esmaeilnejad, Mousa Tavassoli, Siamak Asri-Rezaei, Bahram Dalir-Naghadeh, Karim Mardani, Ghader Jalilzadeh-Amin, Mostafa Golabi, Jafar Arjmand

“…Positive amplification from blood of ruminants, ticks, oviposition ticks, eggs, and larvae was subjected to restriction digestion with HphI. …”
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Soil-Transmitted Helminth Reinfection and Associated Risk Factors among School-Age Children in Chencha District, Southern Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study by Zerihun Zerdo, Tsegaye Yohanes, Befikadu Tariku

“…Structured questionnaire and Kato-Katz thick smear technique were used to interview parents or guardians and quantify the number of eggs per gram of stool. Pearson chi-square and logistic regression were used to assess the association between predictor variable and STH reinfection. …”
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Effects of Vertical Transmission and Human Contact on Zika Dynamics by Abdoulaye Sow, Cherif Diallo, Hocine Cherifi

“…It includes the immature phase of mosquitoes (eggs), adult mosquitoes (susceptible, exposed, and infectious), and human hosts (susceptible, exposed, infectious, and recovered). …”
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