Real-time PCR for quantifying Haemonchus contortus eggs and potential limiting factors.

abstract：:Praziquantel is still very effective for the treatment of schistosomiasis, but there are rising concerns on the potential risk of developing resistances because of the extensive use of this drug. Triclabendazole, a systemic anthelmintic, is very effective against other trematodes such as Paragonimus spp. and Fasciola ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Barduagni P,Hassanein Y,Mohamed M,Wakeel AE,Sayed ME,Hallaj Z,Curtale F

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections with the metastrongyloid nematode Aelurostrongylus abstrusus in cats have been reported sporadically from Germany. To assess the occurrence and regional geographical distribution of A. abstrusus in Germany, faecal samples from 391 cats with symptoms of respiratory disease were collected from December 2009 t...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Barutzki D,Schaper R

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microneme protein 8 (MIC8) is considered a new essential invasion factor in Toxoplasma gondii. In the present study, a deoxyribonucleic acid vaccine expressing MIC8 of T. gondii was constructed and the immune response it induced in Kunming mice was evaluated. The gene sequence encoding MIC8 was inserted into the eukar...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Liu MM,Yuan ZG,Peng GH,Zhou DH,He XH,Yan C,Yin CC,He Y,Lin RQ,Song HQ,Zhu XQ

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptosporidium is a significant pathogen in humans and animals. Cases of infection by C. meleagridis or C. baileyi with zoonotic potential have also been reported in domestic birds; and recent studies indicate the presence of new host-adapted species or genotype in birds. Therefore, accurately identifying isolates is...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Abe N,Iseki M

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In urban environments, catch basins serve as major developmental and resting sites for anthropophilic and zoophilic mosquitoes. However, the use of this habitat is inconsistent, with abundance of larvae varying significantly across catch basins at a fine spatial scale. During seasonal summer investigations on mosquito...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Rydzanicz K,Jawień P,Lonc E,Modelska M

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physicochemical properties of four N-halomethylated and one non-halomethylated ammonium salts, with proven in vitro antileishmanial activity, were determined according to pharmaceutical standard procedures. The effectiveness and toxicity of these compounds were assessed in hamsters infected with Leishmania (Vianni...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Fernandez M,Murillo J,Ríos-Vásquez LA,Ocampo-Cardona R,Cedeño DL,Jones MA,Velez ID,Robledo SM

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxocariasis is a worldwide zoonotic disease caused by the ascarid nematode Toxocara canis. The most common method available for serodiagnosis of toxocariasis is an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) test using Toxocara excretory-secretory antigen (TES). The present study describes the development of IgG-ELISA ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Wickramasinghe S,Yatawara L,Nagataki M,Takamoto M,Watanabe Y,Rajapakse RP,Uda K,Suzuki T,Agatsuma T

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hundred forty feral domestic cats trapped between 2004 and 2008 in the city centre and the suburb districts of Dubai, as well as in desert biotopes, were subjected to a complete parasitological dissection. The established parasite fauna consisted of Cystoisospora felis (12.9%), Cystoisospora rivolta (9.2%), Toxopl...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Schuster RK,Thomas K,Sivakumar S,O'Donovan D

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To date classification and differentiation of Alaria spp. are based largely on external characteristics and comparative morphology of adult flukes. The accurate differentiation between various Alaria spp. mesocercariae is indeed difficult because there are only few data on morphological and morphometrical features of ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Riehn K,Hamedy A,Alter T,Lücker E

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gonadectomized male laboratory rats were given 0.06 mg/kg estradiol benzoate daily for 14 days before being inoculated with 50 third-stage larvae of Parastrongylus malaysiensis. Hormone treatment was continued until the rats were killed. The numbers of larvae in the brain and of adult worms in the pulmonary area of th...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Kamis AB,Ahmad RA,Badrul-Munir MZ

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasite-mediated selection is currently believed to play an important role in life-history evolution. To assess how simple hematoserological and biochemical condition indices reflect host immunocompetence and infection resistance controlled laboratory experiments are required. We addressed these issues by infecting l...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Hõrak P,Tummeleht L,Talvik H

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria remains a serious health problem in many parts of the world. It causes high morbidity and claims many lives in developing countries each year. Humans are generally infected by four species of malaria parasites. However, malaria infection caused by Plasmodium malariae or P. falciparum is recognized as an import...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Elsheikha HM,Sheashaa HA

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tryptophan-N-formylated gramicidin A, a nonhemolytic derivative of the toxic peptide antibiotic gramicidin A, has previously been shown to induce potassium leakage from Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes in vitro and to inhibit the growth of the parasite. In the present study the antimalarial activities of tw...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Otten-Kuipers MA,Roelofsen B,Op den Kamp JA

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Praziquantel, due to high efficacy, excellent tolerability, few and transient side effects, simple administration, and competitive cost, is virtually the only drug of choice for treatment of human schistosomiasis. Treatment of schistosomiasis has shown great advances with the introduction of the drug into the therapeu...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Wu W,Wang W,Huang YX

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Europe, mosquito-related public health concerns are growing due to the increasing spread of invasive mosquito species and the recent emergence of mosquito-borne arboviruses. A vital backbone in the assessment of these issues is detailed knowledge of the mosquito fauna, i.e. regional mosquito inventories. It was the...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Krüger A,Börstler J,Badusche M,Lühken R,Garms R,Tannich E

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of parasite-specific antibodies is an important component of immunity to blood stage malaria infection, as shown by several previous studies in rodent models. However, no study has addressed the induction of humoral immunity by different parasites in a genetically homogeneous host population. Here, levels o...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Smith EC,Taylor-Robinson AW

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 585 persons from several occupational groups (farmers, slaughterhouse staff, hunters, veterinarians) exposed to Toxocara infestations and 50 persons of a control group were tested for the presence of specific antibodies to the Toxocara canis antigen using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and a western b...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Deutz A,Fuchs K,Auer H,Kerbl U,Aspöck H,Köfer J

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was determined that there is a relationship between prevalence and mean densities of Trichodina spp. on Merlangius merlangus and organic pollution, measured as levels of nitrite, nitrate and phosphate in the surrounding environment. Monthly, two left anterior gill arcs of 60 M. merlangus (unless otherwise stated) c...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Ogut H,Palm HW

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacies of 20 mg/kg body weight (BW) of toltrazuril (Toltra) 2 days post-infection (dpi), 2 mg/kg BW of diclazuril 2 and 3 dpi and 200 mg/kg BW of sulphadimidine 2, 3 and 4 dpi were compared in a model for piglet isosporosis. Weight gain (first 4 weeks of life) and diarrhoea and oocyst excretion from 4 to 11 dp...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Mundt HC,Mundt-Wüstenberg S,Daugschies A,Joachim A

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ticks are hematophagous ectoparasites which can transmit several diseases to the host during their feeding process. When ticks mechanically damage the tissue, they eventually induce inflammatory responses on the skin spot where they are fixed. One of the alternatives to control these ectoparasites is the use of chemic...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Bozzatto V,de Oliveira PR,Camargo-Mathias MI

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tick proteins have been shown to be useful for the development of vaccines which reduce tick infestations. Potential tick protective antigens have been identified and characterized, in part, by use of RNA interference (RNAi). RNAi allows for analysis of gene function by characterizing the impact of loss of gene expres...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： de la Fuente J,Almazán C,Naranjo V,Blouin EF,Kocan KM

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiostrongylus cantonensis is an important zoonotic parasite causing eosinophilic meningitis and eosinophilic meningoencephalitis in humans. In this study, the protein expression profiles of the infective third- and pathogenic fifth-stage larvae (L3 and L5) of this parasite were compared by proteomic techniques. Isol...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Chen KY,Cheng CJ,Yen CM,Tang P,Wang LC

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The value profiles of 5 intracellular enzymes, 15 metabolites (with 2 associated ratios), and 3 electrolytes were monitored over time in 9 captive-reared African black-footed penguins (Spheniscus demersus) with different avian malaria clinical status: uninfected, subclinically infected, and clinically infected with fa...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Graczyk TK,Cranfield MR,Bicknese EJ

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypersaline lagoons located in evaporation basins or salars (salt flats) in the Atacama Desert are extreme environments harbouring a specialised biota able to survive harsh conditions for life. The knowledge of the parasitic biodiversity of these extreme habitats is still scarce despite their functional importance...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Redón S,Vasileva GP,Georgiev BB,Gajardo G

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vector-borne diseases caused by mosquitoes are one of the major economic and health problems in many countries. The Aedes aegypti mosquito is a vector of several diseases in humans like yellow fever and dengue. Vector control methods involving the use of chemical insecticides are becoming less effective due to develop...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Suganya G,Karthi S,Shivakumar MS

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under natural conditions, eukaryote cells may contain bacteria. Arthropods such as ticks, insects or mites are a group particularly favoured by the obligate intracellular bacteria. While arthropods are vectors for some of them, other bacteria inhabit invertebrate host cells having entered mutualistic interactions. Suc...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Rymaszewska A

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to explore Toxoplasma gondii nucleus coding apicoplast protein acyl carrier protein (ACP) synthesis and trafficking in delayed death. The recombinant T. gondii ACP was expressed by prokaryotic expression method, and anti-ACP polyclonal antibody was obtained from rabbit immune. T. gondii "delayed death...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Wu L,Shen J,Zhou Y,Wang X,Wu L,Jiang X,Chen S

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to genetically characterize and phylogenetically analyze the Cryptosporidium spp. isolated from exotic birds commercialized in popular markets, commercial aviaries, and pet shops located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Fecal samples from individually housed birds were collected and subjected t...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Gomes RS,Huber F,da Silva S,do Bomfim TC

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sheep infected with the triclabendazole-susceptible Cullompton isolate of Fasciola hepatica were dosed with 15 mg/kg of compound alpha at 12 weeks post-infection. Adult flukes were recovered from the bile ducts at 24, 48, and 72 h post-treatment (p.t.). Changes to the spermatogenic cells in the testis were examined by...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： McConville M,Hanna RE,Brennan GP,McCoy M,Edgar HW,McConnell S,Castillo R,Hernández-Campos A,Fairweather I

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidemiological importance of increasing reports worldwide on Cryptosporidium contamination of oysters remains unknown in relation to foodborne cryptosporidiosis. Thirty market-size oysters (Crassostrea virginica), collected from each of 53 commercial harvesting sites in Chesapeake Bay, MD, were quantitatively tes...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Graczyk TK,Lewis EJ,Glass G,Dasilva AJ,Tamang L,Girouard AS,Curriero FC

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00