Immune responses to fleas in two rodent species differing in natural prevalence of infestation and diversity of flea assemblages.

abstract：:Changes of serum cytokines including interferon gamma inducible protein-10 (IP-10) chemokine were analyzed in a total of eight vivax malarial patients before and after chemotherapy by immunostaining for human cytokine antibodies attached to membranes. IP-10 was strongly reactive in the period before chloroquine/primaq...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Kim TS,Chung YB,Choi HJ,Yang HJ

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In latest years, the importance of the Melaleuca alternifolia essential oil (EO) has been greatly empathised due to its anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory effects, as well as to its toxic properties towards many arthropods of great medical and veterinary importance. In this research, the EO extracted from aerial par...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Conti B,Flamini G,Cioni PL,Ceccarini L,Macchia M,Benelli G

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrastructure of the trophozoite of Pneumocystis carinii was studied by the freeze-fracture technique. Nuclei and cytoplasmic organelles such as the endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondria, cytoplasmic vacuoles and small round bodies were observed. The mean number of nuclear pores was 8 per micron 2, which is small compa...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Yoshikawa H,Morioka H,Yoshida Y

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new Eimeria species is described from a common bronzewing pigeon (Phaps chalcoptera) (Latham, 1790) in Western Australia. Sporulated oocysts of Eimeria chalcoptereae n. sp. (n = 30) are subspheroidal, 22-25 × 21-24 (23.5 × 22.6) μm; length/width (L/W) ratio 1.0-1.1 (1.04) μm. Wall bi-layered, 1.0-1.4 (1.2) μm thick,...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Yang R,Brice B,Berto BP,Ryan UM

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyriproxyfen, a juvenile hormone analogue, diflubenzuron, a chitin synthesis inhibitor, and azadirachtin, an ecdysone agonist, are three insect growth regulators (IGRs) considered as selective and effective insecticides for mosquitoes. Romanomermis iyengari (Welch) is a mosquito-parasitic mermithid that can provide bi...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Suman DS,Brey CW,Wang Y,Sanad M,Shamseldean MS,Gaugler R

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosomatidae is a family of unicellular parasites belonging to the phylum Euglenozoa, which are causative agents in high impact human diseases such as Leishmaniasis, Chagas disease and African sleeping sickness. The impact on human health and local economies, together with a lack of satisfactory chemotherapeutic t...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Martín-Escolano R,Martín-Escolano J,Ballesteros-Garrido R,Cirauqui N,Abarca B,Rosales MJ,Sánchez-Moreno M,Ballesteros R,Marín C

更新日期：2020-09-01 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：:Adult liver flukes belonging to three isolates of differing sensitivity to triclabendazole were incubated for 24 h in vitro in nitroxynil at a concentration of 100 microg/ml. Fine structural changes to the tegument, sub-tegumental region and gut were assessed by transmission electron microscopy. Similar changes were o...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： McKinstry B,Halferty L,Brennan GP,Fairweather I

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Egypt, reclaiming portions of the desert using water from the Nile has resulted in large-scale invasion of Biomphalaria alexandrina in these regions. Studies exploring the local adaptation of Schistosoma mansoni to its snail host have been carried out to predict the extension of schistosomiasis to newly reclaimed a...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Abou-El-Naga IF

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phalloidin fluorescence technique, enzyme cytochemistry and immunocytochemistry in conjunction with confocal scanning laser microscopy have been used for the first time to describe the nervous and muscle systems of the viviparous monogenean gill parasite, Macrogyrodactylus clarii. The gross spatial arrangement of musc...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： El-Naggar MM,Arafa SZ,El-Abbassy SA,Stewart MT,Halton DW

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphological abnormalities were observed on the cephalic bulb hooklets of advanced third-stage larvae (AdvL(3)) of genus Gnathostoma. The larvae were obtained from the fish "Mexican rivulus" Millerichthys robustus collected from a seasonal pond near Tlacotalpan, Veracruz, Mexico. The abnormalities involved (1) extra ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Mosqueda-Cabrera MA,Ocampo-Jaimes A

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The problems of resistant lines of Plasmodium falciparum are escalating. Twelve seaweeds species belong to five different families (Sargassaceae, Gracilariaceae, Hypneaceae, Corallinaceae and Halimedaceae) were collected from Mandapam coastal area, and the seaweeds extracts were tested for in vitro antiplasmodial acti...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Ravikumar S,Jacob Inbaneson S,Suganthi P

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigates the damages of high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) to transplanted hydatid cysts in abdominal cavities of rabbits with aids of ultrasound contrast agent (UCA) and superabsorbent polymer (SAP) alone or in combination. A rabbit model with transplanted hydatid cyst was established by i...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Liu AB,Cai H,Ye B,Chen LL,Wang MY,Zhang J,Zhao YF

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey of the myxosporean fauna of Australian marine fishes revealed the presence of three previously unreported species of Unicapsula (Multivalvulida: Trilosporidae) from sites off Southeast Queensland, off Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, and from Jurien Bay in Western Australia. Morphometric d...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Miller TL,Adlard RD

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present work was aimed at evaluating the "in vitro" efficacy of different concentrations of thymol on engorged nymphs and females of Rhipicephalus sanguineus. The nymphs were separated in seven groups and immersed in different concentrations of thymol (0.25%, 0.5%, 1.0%, 1.5%, and 2.0%) for 5 min. A control group ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： de Oliveira Monteiro CM,Daemon E,Aparecido Clemente M,Dos Santos Rosa L,Maturano R

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmaniasis is a public health problem that has been increasing year by year, with the further difficulty that an efficient control system is not available. Therefore, it is necessary to search for less contaminating and dangerous alternatives for controlling Leishmania transmitting sandflies. The purpose of this st...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Cárdenas J,Rojas J,Rondón M,Nieves E

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA plasmid immunization is a novel approach of preventive and therapeutic vaccine. More than 100 DNA vaccines have been on preclinical or clinical phase trials, and four kinds of DNA vaccines for livestock have been approved by USDA, CFIA, and APVMA. Schistosomiasis is a worldwide parasitic disease, and vaccine immun...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Liu HF,Li W,Lu MB,Yu LJ

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The progressive visceral infection caused in golden hamsters by Leishmania donovani amastigotes led to gradual impairment of the proliferative response of their splenic (SPMC) or peripheral blood (PBMC) mononuclear cells to in vitro stimulation with leishmanial antigen, with mitogen (concanavalin A), and even with a c...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Dasgupta S,Mookerjee A,Chowdhury SK,Ghose AC

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracts were prepared from leaf, bark, and seed of Azadirachta indica, leaf and seed of Prunus persica, bark of Mangifera indica, and leaf of Psidium guajava and were evaluated against Boophilus microplus. Of the eight extracts screened, the extracts prepared from the A. indica seed showed very high level of efficacy...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Srivastava R,Ghosh S,Mandal DB,Azhahianambi P,Singhal PS,Pandey NN,Swarup D

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When given orally, quinine or salinomycin cause irreversible damage to the plasmodial developmental stages of Henneguya sp., a gill parasite in the tapir fish Gnathonemus petersii. Naturally infected tapir fish measured 75-169 mm in total length and their total weight ranged over 4.3-11.7 g. The fish bore 7-77 plasmod...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Dohle A,Schmahl G,Raether W,Schmidt H,Ritter G

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Necrophagous Sarcophagidae are among the insects most frequently reported from human corpses. The broad forensic application of flesh flies is restricted by the lack of reliable tools for species identification of larval stages and mass breeding of collected flesh fly larvae to the adult stage, and more recently DNA-b...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Szpila K,Richet R,Pape T

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During infections, Giardia lamblia undergoes a continuous change of its major surface antigens, the variant-specific surface proteins (VSPs). Many studies on antigenic variation have been performed using G. lamblia clone GS/M-83-H7, which expresses surface antigen VSP H7. The present study was focused on the identific...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Bienz M,Siles-Lucas M,Müller N

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A monoclonal antibody TGCM5 (isotype G, subclass 1, kappa light chain) against SAG2, a major surface antigen of Toxoplasma gondii tachyzoites, was produced in quantity and its Fab-containing idiotype (Id) was injected into rabbits for production of rabbit anti-Id sera. The rabbit anti-Id IgG (aId-IgG) with a SAG2 inte...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Yang CD,Chang GN,Chao D

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The viability of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts ingested by Artemia franciscana metanauplii was evaluated using two fluorogenic vital dyes. There was no significant difference (p = 0.09) between the viability of oocysts maintained in saline (control) and those recovered from the digestive tract of the microcrustacean ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Méndez-Hermida F,Gómez-Couso H,Ares-Mazás E

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gas-liquid chromatographic studies were done to determine the fatty acid composition of the digestive gland-gonad (DGG) complex of Helisoma trivolvis snails infected with the intramolluscan stages of Echinostoma trivolvis, of rediae freed from the DGG, of uninfected DGG, and of 41-day-old adult worms grown in golden h...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Fried B,Rao KS,Sherma J,Huffman JE

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：:Sarcophagids are a large family of Diptera, with a worldwide distribution. They are related to decomposing organic matter and are very interesting for health science and in forensic cases since many species produce myiasis and occur in human corpses. This family is considered difficult to study, particularly with rega...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Paños-Nicolás Á,Arnaldos MI,García MD,Ubero-Pascal N

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blastocystis is an enteric protozoan parasite commonly found in humans and animals. Phylogenetic and genotypic analyses have shown that Blastocystis exhibits extreme genetic diversity, and humans are host to a number of zoonotic isolates. In the present study, the prevalence of Blastocystis in 276 stool samples from a...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Wong KH,Ng GC,Lin RT,Yoshikawa H,Taylor MB,Tan KS

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to assess the effect of crude extracts of marine actinobacteria on larvicidal, repellent, and ovicidal activities against Culex tritaeniorhynchus and Culex gelidus (Diptera: Culicidae). The early fourth instar larvae of C. tritaeniorhynchus and C. gelidus, reared in the laboratory,...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Karthik L,Gaurav K,Rao KV,Rajakumar G,Rahuman AA

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The G-Protein-coupled receptor Hc110-R of Haemonchus contortus and its orthologue in Caenorhabditis elegans, the latrophilin-like protein 1 (LAT-1), were shown to play a role in the mode of action of the new anthelmintic compound emodepside. C. elegans LAT-1 knockout mutants showed a decreased paralysing effect of emo...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Krüger N,Harder A,von Samson-Himmelstjerna G

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00