Occurrence of trichodinid ciliates (Peritricha : Urceolariidae) in the Kiel Fjord, Baltic Sea, and its possible use as a biological indicator.

abstract：:Gastrointestinal nematode (GIN) infections are a common constraint to small ruminant industry throughout the world, and among those, haemonchosis has its own significance. Control of GIN primarily relies on the use of anthelmintics, but this approach has become less reliable due to the development of resistance in GIN...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Saddiqi HA,Jabbar A,Sarwar M,Iqbal Z,Muhammad G,Nisa M,Shahzad A

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the ultrastructural alterations induced on epimastigotes by nifurtimox and 5-nitro-2-thienyl-malononitrile (5NO2TM), a novel compound with anti-Trypanosoma cruzi activity. Parasites treated with concentrations of nifurtimox lower than usually employed for this kind of study showed vacuolisation, alterations ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Muelas-Serrano S,Pérez-Serrano J,Gómez-Barrio A,Arán VJ,Rodríguez-Caabeiro F

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tungiasis is endemic in many countries in Latin America, the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa, and it is associated with severe morbidity. The pathophysiological and immunological characteristics of the ectoparasitosis are not well understood, and no effective therapy is currently available. The aim of this study was ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Feldmeier H,Witt L,Schwalfenberg S,Linardi PM,Ribeiro RA,Capaz RA,Van Marck E,Meckes O,Mehlhorn H,Mencke N,Heukelbach J

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The time-course of the detection of circulating and urinary filarial antigens was followed with a 2S-IRMA assay, using a mouse monoclonal antibody raised against Brugia malayi larvae, in Mastomys natalensis experimentally infected with Brugia malayi, Brugia pahangi, or Litomosoides carinii. In the prepatent phase of t...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Lutsch C,Cesbron JY,Zahner H,Capron A

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection in dogs and humans with the protozoan parasite Leishmania are widespread in tropical and subtropical countries around the globe. Sand flies of the order Phlebotomus in the Old World and Lutzomyia in the New World function as the vector of this disease. In dogs, skin lesions are the most prominent signs of ca...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Mencke N,Volf P,Volfova V,Stanneck D

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogen-free rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) aged 735 degree days were experimentally exposed to a low dose of infectious Myxobolus cerebralis (20 triactinomyxons fish(-1)). Three time periods were chosen for sampling that included 10 days (d), 67 d, and 5 months (mo) post exposure. Five diagnostic assays were us...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Kelley GO,Adkison MA,Zagmutt-Vergara FJ,Leutenegger CM,Bethel JW,Myklebust KA,McDowell TS,Hedrick RP

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmania has distinct epidemiological and biological characteristics and causes a variety of clinical symptoms. To understand the genetic diversity and the phylogenetic relationships among Leishmania isolates from China, 29 Leishmania isolates from different geographic origins, vectors, and hosts were analyzed using...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Wang Y,Yang Y,Wang J,Bao Y,Guan L,Gao C,Shi F

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little information is available on the occurrence of endoparasites in pet guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of intestinal parasites in cavies kept as pets in southern Italy. Fresh fecal samples were randomly collected from 60 guinea pigs housed in pet shops or priv...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： d'Ovidio D,Noviello E,Ianniello D,Cringoli G,Rinaldi L

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasmosis is a disease with a worldwide distribution that affects a wide variety of animal species, though with rare descriptions in chickens. We describe the clinical, epidemiological, pathological, and molecular aspects of a toxoplasmosis outbreak in domestic chickens and guinea fowl in southern Brazil. The floc...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Vielmo A,Pena HFJ,Panziera W,Bianchi RM,De Lorenzo C,Oliveira S,Alves BF,Gennari SM,Pavarini SP,de Barros CSL,Driemeier D

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In freshwater ecosystems, snails can significantly influence the competition between primary producers through grazing of periphyton. This activity can potentially be modified by trematodes, a large group of parasites which mostly use molluscs as the first intermediate host. Available studies, however, show contradict...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Vivas Muñoz JC,Hilt S,Horák P,Knopf K

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera of ten dogs infected with Angiostrongylus vasorum were analyzed by immunoblotting proteins of first stage larvae (L1) and adult parasites. The molecular weights (m.w.) of the principal L1 proteins identified by IgG, IgM, IgA, and IgE were 18-118 kDa and those of the adult parasite were 28-209 kDa. The L1 proteins...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： De Oliveira Vasconcelos V,De Almeida Vitor RW,Dos Santos Lima W

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the life cycle of the equid stomach parasite Habronema muscae was disclosed more than 100 years ago, little is known about the effect of the developing nematode larvae in its intermediate host, Musca domestica. In a series of experiments, freshly hatched M. domestica larvae were exposed to H. muscae eggs cont...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Schuster RK,Sivakumar S

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was made to investigate efficacy of eprinomectin against to Toxocara canis in dogs. In the study, 20 stray dogs naturally infected with T. canis were divided into two groups as treatment (ten dogs) and control (ten dogs). Eprinomectin (100 microg/kg, Eprinex 250 ml) was given to treatment group dogs orally,...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Kozan E,Sevimli FK,Birdane FM,Adanir R

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hassalstrongylus epsilon is a small nematode, whose adult forms are found among the intestinal microvilli of the water rat Nectomys squamipes, Brants 1827 (Rodentia: Muridae). The external appearance of the cuticle, which presents transversal striations and longitudinal ridges, is described using scanning electron mic...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Oliveira-Menezes A,De Souza W,Lanfredi RM

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to provide a comprehensive description of the ultrastructure of the esophagus of Trichinella spiralis muscle larvae. Although the esophagus exhibited basically the same structure throughout its entire length, being composed of a single cell-layered epithelium, the basal lamina, and the cuticle,...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Takahashi Y,Uno T,Yagi J,Yamada S,Araki T

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies were conducted in Mwea Rice Scheme, Kenya during the period April 2005 and January 2007 to determine the host-feeding pattern of culicine mosquitoes. Mosquitoes were collected indoors and outdoors and tested for human, bovine, goat, and donkey blood meals by an Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay. A total of 1,7...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Muturi EJ,Muriu S,Shililu J,Mwangangi JM,Jacob BG,Mbogo C,Githure J,Novak RJ

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present report demonstrates that the Gymnorhynchus gigas plerocercoid possesses various types of endo- and exoproteases with activity against general (azocoll, azocasein, and azoalbumin) and specific substrates (elastin, keratin, collagen, hemoglobin, fibrinogen, plasma, and immunoglobulin G). The activity against...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Vázquez-López C,de Armas-Serra C,Giménez-Pardo C,Rodríguez-Caabeiro F

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schistosomiasis remains a major public health problem and it is an immune disease. The schistosome egg is the primary parasite factor responsible for the overt disease. The eggs release the soluble antigen, which induces intensive tissue reaction, a granulomatous reaction to the eggs. If granuloma formation could be s...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Huang YX,Xu YL,Yu CX,Li HJ,Yin XR,Wang TS,Wang W,Liang YS

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cystic and alveolar echinococcoses are zoonotic diseases caused by the larval stages of Echinococcus granulosus and Echinococcus multilocularis, respectively. As the diseases are co-endemic in many areas of the world, a simple and rapid test for the differential diagnosis of cystic echinococcosis (CE) and alveol...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Wang JY,Gao CH,Steverding D,Wang X,Shi F,Yang YT

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The localization and distribution of SALMFamide (S1)-like immunoreactivity (IR), was determined at both the cellular and subcellular level in the central nervous system (CNS) of the nematode roundworm Ascaris suum. The techniques of indirect immunofluorescence in conjunction with confocal scanning laser microscopy and...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Brownlee DJ,Fairweather I,Thorndyke MC,Johnston CF

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study shows that head lice (Pediculus humanus capitis) are killed by suffocation when submersed into the anti-louse shampoo Licener®, which contains a mild shampoo component and an extract of neem seeds after their oil components had been pressed off. It is shown that the inner tracheal system becomes comp...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Al-Quraishy S,Abdel-Ghaffar F,Mehlhorn H

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the global health problems associated with mosquito-borne diseases, over two million people primarily in the tropical countries are at risk. The widely and commonly used chemical method though effective, has some major disadvantages making insect control practically difficult. In view of the above, it is unavoi...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Khandagle AJ,Tare VS,Raut KD,Morey RA

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gyrodactylus bubyri Osmanov, 1965, a monogenean parasite of Caucasian dwarf goby Knipowitschia caucasica (Berg) described from Aral Sea and subsequently reported from the same host from Strymon River, Greece, is recorded from Atanasovsko Lake, Bulgarian Black Sea coast (the first record of G. bubyri from the Black Sea...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Stoyanov B,Huyse T,Pankov P,Georgiev BB

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A monoclonal antibody raised by immunization of BALB/c mice with erythrocytic stages of Plasmodium vivax was shown to react with asexual erythrocytic stages of P. chabaudi. The cross-reactivity molecules are antigens of 200 and 148 kDa in P. vivax and of 190 and 70 kDa in P. chabaudi. Immunofluorescence studies of the...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Perez HA,Bracho C,Romano M,De la Rosa M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spermiogenesis and the spermatozoon ultrastructure of the cestode Nippotaenia mogurndae Yamaguti et Myiata, 1940 (Nippotaeniidea), a parasite of Perccottus glenii Dubowski, 1877 (Perciformes: Odontobutidae), have been investigated by means of transmission electron microscopy, cytochemical staining with periodic acid-t...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Bruňanská M,Bílý T,Nebesářová J

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the study, we screened a total of 399 adult sheep keds (Melophagus ovinus) for the presence of RNA and DNA specific for arboviral, bacterial, and protozoan vector-borne pathogens. All investigated keds were negative for flaviviruses, phleboviruses, bunyaviruses, Borrelia burgdorferi, Rickettsia spp., Anaplasma phag...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Rudolf I,Betášová L,Bischof V,Venclíková K,Blažejová H,Mendel J,Hubálek Z,Kosoy M

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ligictaluridus michaelalicea n. sp. (Monogenea: Dactylogyridae, Ancyrocephalinae) is described from the gills of Pylodictis olivaris (Siluriformes: Ictaluridae) from Wisconsin and Iowa portions of the upper Mississippi River. Diagnostic features include a relatively large, strongly curved tubular cirrus with minor ter...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Leis E,Easy R,MacLean L,Cone D

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichomonas vaginalis, a flagellated protozoan parasite causes a variety of adverse health consequences in both men and women. The parasite exists in the trophozoite and the pseudocystic stage. The study reports for the first time that pseudocyst forms of T. vaginalis isolated from cervical neoplasia (CN) patients dem...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Afzan MY,Suresh K

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Entamoeba histolytica forms chitin-walled cysts during encystation process, where formation of the cyst wall needs not only chitin synthase but also chitinase. During excystation, quadruplet amoebae emerge from the chitin-walled cysts by dissolving the wall, so that chitinase may be necessary for excystation process a...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Makioka A,Kumagai M,Hiranuka K,Kobayashi S,Takeuchi T

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coccidia (Chromista: Miozoa: Eimeriidae) of columbiform birds (Aves: Columbiformes) have been described since the end of the nineteenth century; however, some of these descriptions were poorly detailed or inconclusive. In this sense, the current work makes a detailed taxonomic revision reconsidering and organizing 18 ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Ortúzar-Ferreira CN,Oliveira MS,Genovez-Oliveira JL,Franco HA,Thode-Filho S,Cardozo SV,Oliveira ÁA,Lima VM,Ferreira I,Berto BP

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00