Lutfiyya Latief is a PhD candidate in the Zoology department at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, specialising in Aquatic Fish Parasitology and toxicology resulting from treatment. Her research focuses on the uses and impacts of ionic silver and nano silver on the African sharptooth catfish (Clarias gariepinus) and its monogenean parasite (Macrogyrodactylus congolensis).