Osama M. Darwesh

By Osama M. Darwesh and Hoda Samir El-Sayed

Zoonotic infections may be defined as infections of animals that might be obviously transmissible to people. The contamination may transfer from ingestion of infective level of worms with food, infected soil, skin penetration, or direct animal contact. Parasitic helminths are a group of parasites that remains poorly studied in comparison to viruses and bacteria but may pose a considerable future risk to humans. Zoonotic parasites may be separated into four classes—direct-zoonotic, meta-zoonotic, cyclo-zoonotic, and sapro-zoonotic. Helminth parasitic zoonosis is possible to prevent and manage by simple service of hygiene and sanitation or regular deworming with anthelmintic pills. However, because of the lack of effective vaccines and appeared of anthelmintic resistance to medication, suppression of parasitic infestation still lingers a venture, which needs to improve the new possibility techniques. As a result, the hobby of exploiting probiotics as an alternative to pills has accelerated significantly during the last couple of years. Probiotics are exogenous residing microorganisms, which are beneficial to the host’s fitness when administered inside the digestive tract. The most extensively used microorganisms, for this reason, are microorganisms of the genus Lactobacillus and Enterococcus, and a few fungi and yeasts. The current chapter is proposed to summarize some topics related to the use of probiotics toward helminth parasitic zoonosis.

Part of the book: Parasitic Helminths and Zoonoses