New aspects of animal and human intestinal parasitary infections circulation

Global climate changes significantly affect the spread of infections of various etiologies to new areas and have social and economic consequences; this relates to the migration of large groups of population. The global warming phenomenon significantly contributes to the spread of parasitary diseases. In the last decades, in Slovakia there were reports of zoonotic parasitary diseases, such as cryptosporidiosis, giardiasis, strongyloidosis and also other helminthiases from the group of so-called soil-transmitted helminthiases which have been circulating in this area for a long period of time and represent a constant risk for the inhabitants living in inappropriate hygiene conditions and endanger mainly immunodeficient individuals. This project will therefore be focused on obtaining the data on species composition and genotypes of protozoa and helminths. Modern methods of pathogen detection based on molecular and biological methods will be used in the project.