In vitro antileishmanial activity of resveratrol and its hydroxylated analogues against Leishmania major promastigotes and amastigotes.

abstract：:The performance of a rapid immunochromatographic test for the detection of Dirofilaria immitis antigens (Speed Diro™; BVT-Virbac, France) was assessed in 49 experimentally infected dogs and in 244 naturally infected animals; 142 dogs and 102 cats. In experimentally infected dogs, Speed Diro™ showed a sensitivity of 90...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Genchi M,Mangia C,Ferrari N,Loukeri S

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is a serious vector-borne health problem, and Wuchereria bancrofti (W.b) is the major cause of LF worldwide and is focally endemic in Egypt. Identification of filarial infection using traditional morphologic and immunological criteria can be difficult and lead to misdiagnosis. The aim of the ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Abdel-Shafi IR,Shoieb EY,Attia SS,Rubio JM,Ta-Tang TH,El-Badry AA

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fundamental aim of parasite ecology is to understand the mechanisms behind spatial variation in diversity and structure of parasite assemblages. To understand the contribution of individual parasite species and their assemblages to spatial variation in parasite communities, we examined species contributions to beta ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Spickett A,van der Mescht L,Junker K,Krasnov BR,Haukisalmi V,Matthee S

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the larvicidal activity of an enriched fraction of the major lipophilic phenolic compounds from Hypericum carinatum Griseb. (Clusiaceae) was investigated against larvae of Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae), the main vector of dengue virus in Brazil. The larval mortality rate ranged 37.33 to 72.00 % at ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： da Silva FC,de Barros FM,Prophiro JS,da Silva OS,Pereira TN,de Loreto Bordignon SA,Eifler-Lima VL,von Poser GL

更新日期：2013-06-01 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：:Supplementary feeding is widely used in game management but may aid the transmission of parasites. Firstly, feeding sites attract animals and may be regarded as high-risk areas for parasite transmission. Secondly, high host population densities resulting from and supported by supplementary feeding, as well as accumula...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Oja R,Velström K,Moks E,Jokelainen P,Lassen B

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we sequenced and analyzed the mitochondrial (mt) genome of Gastrothylax crumenifer and compared it with other selected trematodes. The full mt genome of G. crumenifer was amplified, sequenced, assembled, analyzed and then subjected to phylogenetic analysis. The complete mt genome of G. crumenifer...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Yang X,Wang L,Chen H,Feng H,Shen B,Hu M,Fang R

更新日期：2016-06-01 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：:A seasonal investigation on the occurrence of fishborne zoonotic trematodes (FZT) in economically important mono-cultured hybrid catfish and giant gouramy was conducted in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam. Fish from carp poly-culture and intensive small-scale integrated vegetable-aquaculture-animal husbandry farming (VAC) ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Thien PC,Dalsgaard A,Thanh BN,Olsen A,Murrell KD

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：:The morphology and ecology are described for four sibling species of digenean metacercariae: Meiogymnophallus minutus (Cobbold 1859), M. strigatus (Lebour 1908) from the estuarine cockle Cerastoderma edule L. and M. fossarum (Bartoli, 1965) and M. rebecqui (Bartoli, 1983) comb. nov. from the brackish water lagoon cock...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Bowers EA,Bartoli P,Russell-Pinto F,James BL

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sheared flagella from Giardia lamblia were freed from cytoskeleton fragments and other cell contaminants by centrifuging in a density gradient. The purified organelles contain many polypeptides, including a set of low-molecular-weight antigens [apparent molecular weights (MWs) = 31, 32, 34, 35 and 37 kD] in the same s...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Clark JT,Holberton DV

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

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

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Abe N,Makino I

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haplosporidian spores from Ostrea edulis, previously described as Minchinia armoricana, were reexamined by light and electron microscopy. These spores were either free among host cells or enclosed in sporocysts. They contained two long epispore cytoplasm extensions (ECE), each possessing cytoskeletal structures corres...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Azevedo C,Montes J,Corral L

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, the morphology and morphometric characterization of Thelohanellus niloticus sp. nov., a new myxozoan belonging to genus Thelohanellus Kudo, 1933 (Myxosporea, Bivalvulida) infecting the gills of Labeo niloticus (Osteichthyes, Cyprinidae), were described for the first time from the River Nile at El...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Abdel-Ghaffar F,Morsy K,Bashtar AR,El-Ganainy S,Gamal S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to assess the effect of leaf hexane and chloroform extracts of Aegle marmelos, Andrographis lineata, Andrographis paniculata, Cocculus hirsutus, Eclipta prostrata, and Tagetes erecta on repellent, ovicidal, and oviposition-deterrent activities against Culex tritaeniorhynchus Giles ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Elango G,Rahuman AA,Bagavan A,Kamaraj C,Zahir AA,Rajakumar G,Marimuthu S,Santhoshkumar T

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to compare the sensitivity of five diagnostic methods commonly used for the detection of Toxoplasma gondii in tissues of naturally infected pigs. We purchased 20 heads of pigs in butcher shops in the city of Ilhéus, Bahia. Brain and tongue fragments were taken from each animal for the performance of P...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Bezerra RA,Carvalho FS,Guimarães LA,Rocha DS,Silva FL,Wenceslau AA,Albuquerque GR

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hymenolepis diminuta is a zoonotic cestode parasitizing the small intestine of rodents (definitive hosts). Humans can accidentally enter into the life cycle of this tapeworm via the ingestion of infected insects (intermediate hosts) containing cestode cysticercoids in their body cavity. More than two centuries after t...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Panti-May JA,Rodríguez-Vivas RI,García-Prieto L,Servián A,Costa F

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The migration of Schistosoma japonicum and S. mansoni through mouse skin epidermis and dermis was compared by immunofluorescence techniques from 4 to 22 h after infection. At all times, the percentage of parasites detected in the dermis was significantly higher for S. japonicum than for S. mansoni. Thus, S. japonicum ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Wang L,Li YL,Fishelson Z,Kusel JR,Ruppel A

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 15 mixtures involving 9 different stocks attributed to the 19/20, 32 and 39 major clonal genotypes of Trypanosoma cruzi were used to infect third-instar nymphs of Triatoma infestans via an artificial feeding device. Three biological parameters were considered: (1) the percentage of infected insects (%II), (...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Pinto AS,de Lana M,Bastrenta B,Barnabé C,Quesney V,Noël S,Tibayrenc M

更新日期：1998-05-01 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：:The Culicinomyces clavisporus is a fungal pathogen of a wide range of mosquito larvae. The C. clavisporus was isolated from the larvae of Culiseta inornata. We have investigated into potential pathogenicity against the adults of Culex quinquefasciatus, Aedes aegypti and Anopheles stephensi. The culture filtrates relea...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Singh G,Prakash S

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spermiogenesis of the pseudophyllidean tapeworm Eubothrium crassum has been described by the aid of transmission electron microscopy for the first time. Initially, early spermatids form a distal cytoplasmic protrusion, a differentiation zone containing a small electron-dense, apically oriented region. Out of this regi...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Brunanská M,Nebesárová J,Scholz T,Fagerholm HP

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the search of alternatives for the control of mosquitoes of medical importance, we evaluated the larvicidal activity of micronized suspensions of calcium hydroxide [Ca(OH)₂] against Aedes aegypti and Culex quinquefasciatus. Tests conducted under laboratory conditions determined a LC50 = 0.027% (LC90 = 0.096%) for A...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Estrada-Aguilar A,Sánchez-Manzano RM,Martínez-Ibarra JA,Camacho AD,Márquez-Navarro A,Nogueda-Torres B

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sticky traps were mounted on heifers and sheep to assess Culicoides spp. (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) host preference. Initially, four coloured 200-cm(2) sticky traps (white, clear, yellow and blue) were attached to the backs of each of ten Friesian heifers that were released into open pasture for 24 h, repeated on six ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Thompson GM,Jess S,Gordon AW,Murchie AK

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spermiogenesis of the monozoic cestode Caryophyllaeus laticeps (Pallas, 1781) (Caryophyllidea: Caryophyllaeidae), a parasite of Abramis brama (Pisces: Cyprinidae), has been investigated by means of transmission electron microscopy and cytochemical staining with periodic acid-thiosemicarbazide-silver proteinate for gly...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Bruňanská M,Kostič B

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Giardia is a prevalent intestinal parasitic infection. The trophozoite structural protein a1-giardin (a1-g) and the cyst protein cyst wall protein 2 (CWP2) have shown promise as Giardia vaccine antigen candidates in murine models. The present study assesses the genetic diversity of a1-g and CWP2 between and within ass...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Radunovic M,Klotz C,Saghaug CS,Brattbakk HR,Aebischer T,Langeland N,Hanevik K

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present report describes a method for establishment of colonies of Blastocystis hominis from single cells in soft agar. The percentage of colony-forming efficiency (% CFE = number of colonies grown/number of cells inoculated x 100) for the cultures was greatly improved by the addition of sodium thioglycollate. Fiv...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Tan SW,Singh M,Thong KT,Ho LC,Moe KT,Chen XQ,Ng GC,Yap EH

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two species of Babesia were isolated from naturally infected sheep in the eastern part of Gansu province. One of the species was identified as B. ovis, while the another one seems as yet to be an unidentified Babesia species. The latter could be transmitted transovarially by Haemaphysalis longicornis. It was shown tha...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Bai Q,Liu G,Liu D,Ren J,Li X

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chagas disease, caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi), although discovered more than a century ago, is still a not very well-elucidated aspect. Individuals in the chronic phase of the disease may present asymptomatic clinical form or symptomatologies related to the cardiac, digestive systems, or both (m...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Carvalho TB,Padovani CR,de Oliveira Júnior LR,Latini ACP,Kurokawa CS,Pereira PCM,Dos Santos RM

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00