Biological activity of Paecilomyces genus against Toxocara canis eggs.

abstract：:After our promising results from prophylactic and therapeutic study (i.p. route) with the radio-attenuated Leishmania donovani parasites against experimental murine visceral leishmaniasis, we prompted to check their therapeutic efficacy through i.m route. BALB/c mice were infected with highly virulent L. donovani para...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Datta S,Manna M,Khanra S,Ghosh M,Bhar R,Chakraborty A,Roy S

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The unforeseen outbreak of bluetongue in north-western Europe in August 2006 raised the question, which Culicoides spp. were involved in the transmission of bluetongue virus (BTV). Based on the decision 2007/20/EU of December 2006, a large-scale entomological surveillance programme was initiated in the five affected E...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Clausen PH,Stephan A,Bartsch S,Jandowsky A,Hoffmann-Köhler P,Schein E,Mehlitz D,Bauer B

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An endopeptidase specific to the Plasmodium falciparum erythrocytic schizont stage and to free merozoites was detected using the fluorogenic GlcA-Val-Leu-Gly-Lys(or Arg)-AEC substrate. The enzyme was purified by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC); its optimal activity was around pH 7.5 and its isoelectric p...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Grellier P,Picard I,Bernard F,Mayer R,Heidrich HG,Monsigny M,Schrével J

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ticks are blood-feeding arthropods and can harbor several bacteria, including the worldwide zoonotic disease Q-fever agent Coxiella burnetii. Recent studies have reported a distinct group of Coxiella mostly associated with Ixodidae ticks, including the primary endosymbionts of Amblyomma americanum. In the present work...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Machado-Ferreira E,Vizzoni VF,Balsemão-Pires E,Moerbeck L,Gazeta GS,Piesman J,Voloch CM,Soares CA

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drashia megastoma (Spirurida: Habronematidae) occurs in nodules in the stomach wall and rarely free in the stomach of the horse, mule and zebra throughout the world. D. megastoma develops in the housefly Musca domestica and causes gastric haemorrhage or even perforation of the stomach. Larvae of this nematode may be f...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Naem S

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of species and genotypes on Cryptosporidium involved in human transmission is fundamental in studying the epidemiology of cryptosporidiosis. This is the first study in molecular epidemiology of cryptosporidiosis that has been made in Chile. Cryptosporidium parvum species and genotypes involved in human and b...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Neira-Otero P,Muñoz-Saldías N,Sanchez-Moreno M,Rosales-Lombardo MJ

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High levels of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH; EC 1. 1. 1. 27) activity have been detected in the filarial worm Molinema dessetae. The two major LDH isoenzymes (LDH1 and LDH2) from female worms were purified by successive chromatography on diethylaminoethyl (DEAE)-Sepharose, carboxymethyl (CM)-Sepharose, and hydroxyapatit...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Marchat L,Loiseau PM,Petek F

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bats from the families Rhinolophidae (n = 90) and Vespertilionidae (n = 191) in the USA and Czech Republic were screened for the presence of Cryptosporidium by microscopic and molecular analysis of faecal samples collected from rectum of dissected animals and from the ground beneath roosting sites. Cryptosporidium ooc...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Kváč M,Hořická A,Sak B,Prediger J,Salát J,Širmarová J,Bartonička T,Clark M,Chelladurai JR,Gillam E,McEvoy J

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of the immune response in chronic helminth infections suggest that parasites modulate the host's immune response. Taenia solium metacestodes, in particular, produce molecules that down-regulate cell-mediated immunity. We have described a small RNA peptide termed metacestode factor (MF) that depresses the murin...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Arechavaleta F,Molinari JL,Tato P

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of pyrethroids to control the human head louse, Pediculus humanus capitis De Geer (Anoplura: Pediculidae), has suffered considerable loss of efficacy due to the evolution of resistance. Thus, the development of efficiently insecticide delivery systems is imperative for the control of head lice. We studied the ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Ullio-Gamboa G,Palma S,Benoit JP,Allemandi D,Picollo MI,Toloza AC

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild birds are common hosts of ticks and can transport them for long distances, contributing to the spreading of tick-borne pathogens. The information about ticks on birds and tick-borne pathogens in Greece is limited. The present study aimed to evaluate the prevalence and species of ticks infesting wild resident bird...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Diakou A,Norte AC,Lopes de Carvalho I,Núncio S,Nováková M,Kautman M,Alivizatos H,Kazantzidis S,Sychra O,Literák I

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The morphology of the scolex of the tapeworm Silurotaenica siluri (Batsch, 1786) (Proteocephalidae: Gangesiinae), a specific parasite of European wels (Silurus glanis L.), was studied using light, scanning (SEM), and transmission electron (TEM) microscopy. The scolex of S. siluri is rather uniform in shape and size; i...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Scholz T,Zd'árská Z,de Chambrier A,Drábek R

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii is an important zoonotic protozoan of the phylum Apicomplexa that can infect nearly all warm-blooded animals. The parasite can exist as the interconvertible tachyzoite or bradyzoite forms, leading to acute or latent infection, respectively. No drug has been reported to penetrate the cyst wall and red...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Song X,Lin M,Li M,Yang X,Liu J,Liu Q

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxocara canis is an intestinal nematode of canids with a worldwide distribution, causing an important but neglected parasitic zoonosis in humans. Aquaporins (AQP) are a family of water channel proteins, which function as membrane channels to regulate water homeostasis. In this study, the coding sequence of aquaporin-...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Luo YF,Hu L,Ma GX,Luo YL,Yin SS,Xiong Y,Zhu XQ,Zhou RQ

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological data and a unique phylogenetic position had suggested that Sarcocystis ovalis in moose and red deer might use a definitive host other than canids, felids, or humans. Corvid birds and rats were therefore evaluated as potential definitive hosts for this species in a small pilot study. Four laboratory rat...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Gjerde B,Dahlgren SS

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial peptides are increasingly being explored as alternative agents for therapy against the parasitic protozoan Leishmania. Previously, we reported that the synthetic magainin analog, pexiganan, induced apoptosis of surface protease-deficient Leishmania. Here, we report the development of an arginine-rich var...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Kulkarni MM,Karafova A,Kamysz W,McGwire BS

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrastructural changes of gastritis due to infection with Physaloptera clausa in 12 fresh carcasses of euthanized European hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus) collected from different part of Urmia, Iran, in which they were highly populated with this animal, six females and six males were subjected to detail necropsy wit...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Gorgani-Firouzjaee T,Farshid AA,Naem S

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 37 juvenile Etmopterus spinax from the Norwegian Deep were examined for stomach contents and metazoan ecto- and endoparasites. These squaliform elasmobranchs were caught by benthopelagic net in May 2001 at a depth of 194-214 m. The euphausiid Meganyctiphanes norvegica and the teleost Maurolicus muelleri wer...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Klimpel S,Palm HW,Seehagen A

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Domestic cats and other felids are definitive hosts for the zoonotic protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii. Serology is widely used in epidemiological studies conducted to estimate the proportion of domestic cats that have encountered the parasite. However, a limited number of such studies are available from some regio...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Galat M,Must K,Rissanen K,Jokelainen P

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that hormones could induce anti-parasitic functions of the host immune system; thus, the aim of the present study was to estimate the seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii antibodies by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in a Polish population of women and men with hyperprolactinaemia (n = 23...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Dzitko K,Malicki S,Komorowski J

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to investigate the links between parasites and behavioural traits of juvenile Murray cod (Maccullochella peelii). The Murray cod is an endangered Australian freshwater fish for which restocking programs are in place and there is a growing human consumption market. However, little is known about the pa...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Shamsi S,Rogers L,Sales E,Kopf RK,Freire R

更新日期：2021-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Presently, there is a need for increased efforts to develop newer and effective methods to control mosquito vectors as the existing chemical and biological methods are not as effective as in earlier period owing to different technical and operational reasons. The use of nanomaterial products in various sectors of scie...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Barik TK,Kamaraju R,Gowswami A

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A void volume fraction and fractions of mean sizes 800 kdalton and 300 kdalton were isolated by gel filtration from lysate of bovine erythrocytes infected with Babesia bovis. All fractions had good serological activity, as assayed by ELISA and IFA. Groups of four splenectomized calves were vaccinated with each fractio...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Waltisbuhl DJ,Goodger BV,Wright IG,Mirre GB,Commins MA

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraspecific variation in Schistosoma mansoni infection and modulation of its expression by vertebrate host genetics was studied by evaluation of some biological parameters of the infection in BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice infected with one Brazilian (BH) and two Venezuelan (YT and SM) laboratory strains of the parasite. M...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Nino Incani R,Morales G,Cesari IM

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanotechnology is a broad interdisciplinary area of research, development, and industrial activity that has been growing rapidly worldwide for the past decade. More ambitious uses of nanoparticles are bioremediation of contaminated environments, controlled release of fragrances, biocides, and antifungals on textiles. ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Barik TK,Sahu B,Swain V

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigation with light and electron microscopy has been made of the cement apparatus of the mature male Neoechinorhynchus rutili, a parasite of Gasterosteus aculeatus. N. rutili possesses a single compact mass of glandular tissue (cement gland) with eight giant nuclei. The nucleus is lobe-shaped and has a conspicuou...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Dezfuli BS

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors previously reported that an extract from Zingiber officinale, traditionally eaten along with raw fish and used in traditional Chinese medicine, effectively destroyed Anisakis larvae in vitro. In this study, we analyzed the effective components of ginger rhizomes. Methanol extracts were fractionated after f...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Goto C,Kasuya S,Koga K,Ohtomo H,Kagei N

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-four Holando Argentino male calves were treated orally with 50 mg/kg body weight trichlorphon (TCF); 0.2 mg/kg body weight subcutaneous ivermectin (IVM); a combination of TCF+IVM at the same doses and administration routes; or remained untreated (control group). All calves were necropsied at day 14 post treatme...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Fiel C,Guzmán M,Steffan P,Prieto O,Bhushan C

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present work aimed at studying the possible association of HLA antigens with Entamoeba histolytica/E. dispar asymptomatic infection in a Mexican mestizo population. A case-control design was selected for evaluation of the role of genetic markers in parasite infection. For this purpose the HLA-A, HLA-B, and HLA-DR ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Valdez E,del Carmen Martínez M,Gómez A,Cedillo R,Arellano J,Pérez ME,Ramos F,Morán P,González E,Valenzuela O,Melendro EI,Ramiro M,Kretschmer R,Muñoz O,Ximénez C

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A small type of Cryptosporidium oocysts was isolated from a naturally infected cat and its biological nature was investigated. In cats experimentally inoculated with Cryptosporidium oocysts, long-lasting shedding of the oocysts occurred after a prepatent period of 8-10 days, and a number of peaks of oocyst count appea...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Asahi H,Koyama T,Arai H,Funakoshi Y,Yamaura H,Shirasaka R,Okutomi K

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00