Morphometric and molecular characteristics of Labeonema synodontisi n. comb. (Nematoda: Atractidae) from the West African fishes.

abstract：:Fatty acids, especially those from phospholipids (PLFA), are essential membrane components that are present in relatively constant proportions in biological membranes under natural conditions. However, under harmful growth conditions, such as diseases, environmental changes, and chemical exposure, the fatty acid propo...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： de Azevedo AF,Dutra JL,Santos ML,Santos Dde A,Alves PB,de Moura TR,de Almeida RP,Fernandes MF,Scher R,Fernandes RP

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An arbitrary-primed RNA PCR differential display strategy was used to identify midgut genes of the reduviid bug Triatoma infestans that were differentially expressed after a blood meal. From interesting bands, 33 distinct cDNAs were cloned and sequenced. Although many had long open reading frames, most of the transcri...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Kollien AH,Billingsley PF

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An overall 44% transplacental transmission rate was observed in 221 rats fed cysts of 12 Toxoplasma strains at 15 days of pregnancy, with a range of 0-90% transmission. Considerable variability in the transmission rate was seen among different groups of rats that received similar Toxoplasma inocula; this is attributed...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Freyre A,Correa O,Falcón J,Mendez J,González M,Venzal JM

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the adult worms and migrating L1 larvae of Trichinella spiralis on the production of specific IgE antibodies was determined in BCF1 mice. To achieve this, we combined the effect of two anthelminthics: thiabendazole, to produce chemosterilization of adult females, and napthalophos, to expel adult worms fr...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Santamarina MT,Leiro J,Garrido MJ,Sanmartin Durán ML,Ubeira FM

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2001, an international surveillance initiative was established, utilising a validated larval development inhibition assay to track the susceptibility of cat flea isolates to imidacloprid. In 2009, an Australian node was incorporated into the programme, joining laboratories in the United States and Europe. Field iso...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Kopp S,Blagburn B,Coleman G,Davis W,Denholm I,Field C,Hostetler J,Mencke N,Rees R,Rust M,Schroeder I,Tetzner K,Williamson M

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resveratrol, a natural phytoalexin found mainly in grapes, possesses a variety of beneficial activities including anticancer, antimicrobial and antiviral. However, there is no information about its effects on kinetoplastid parasites such as Leishmania. Leishmania is a human pathogen responsible for a spectrum of disea...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Kedzierski L,Curtis JM,Kaminska M,Jodynis-Liebert J,Murias M

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chagas disease, caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, remains a serious public health problem in Latin America. In relation to digestive problems, 4.5% of patients show mega syndromes (megacolon) in the chronic phase. In this article, we evaluated intestinal motility at the acute phase of T. cruzi infection throu...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： de Oliveira GM,de Melo Medeiros M,da Silva Batista W,Santana R,Araújo-Jorge TC,de Souza AP

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 480 snails were collected from 3 habitats on the Mau Escarpment, Kenya, and were identified as Bulinus tropicus. Of the 351 snails examined alive in London, 75 were infected with Calicophoron microbothrium, 39 with C. microbothrium and Schistosoma bovis, 1 with S. bovis, 24 with other species of trematodes ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Southgate VR,Brown DS,Warlow A,Knowles RJ,Jones A

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmania (L.) tropica is a causative agent of cutaneous and occasionally visceral or viscerotropic leishmaniasis in humans. The dose of parasites influences the course and outcome of disease in some Leishmania species. The effect of parasite dose on L. tropica infection in an experimental model was studied in the cu...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Rostamian M,Jafari D,Abolghazi M,Farahani H,Niknam HM

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper follows the study from 2013 focused on the molecular screening of mosquitoes as vectors of Dirofilaria spp. which provided the information on Aedes vexans as a potential vector of Dirofilaria repens in Slovakia. Current entomological and molecular research indicates that Ae. vexans can participate also in t...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Bocková E,Iglódyová A,Kočišová A

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anthelmintic activity of Eucalyptus staigeriana essential oil has previously been inferred through both in vitro and in vivo tests. Thus, the encapsulation process generally improves oil stability, promotes controlled release in target organs, reduces dosage, and increases efficacy. The aims of this study were to ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： de Aquino Mesquita M,E Silva Júnior JB,Panassol AM,de Oliveira EF,Vasconcelos AL,de Paula HC,Bevilaqua CM

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The CSP, EMP2/MESA, MSP2, MSP3, MSP5, RAP1, RAP2, RESA1, SERA1 and SSP2/TRAP genes of Plasmodium falciparum are vaccine candidates. The hepatic phase of the infection is of major interest due to the protection induced by immunization with radiation-attenuated sporozoites. We therefore performed RT-PCR experiments to d...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Bodescot M,Silvie O,Siau A,Refour P,Pino P,Franetich JF,Hannoun L,Sauerwein R,Mazier D

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental infections of Galba truncatula with Fasciola hepatica were carried out under laboratory conditions to determine why the use of Tetraphyll, when provided every 3 days as food for snails, stimulated the intensity of cercarial shedding. In snails raised on cos lettuce and Tetraphyll, the number of metacercar...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Belfaiza M,Abrous M,Rondelaud D,Moncef M,Dreyfuss G

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The source of chemical anthelmintics (levamisole, flubendazole, and thiabendazole) had limited the success of gastrointestinal nematodiasis control in sheep and goats and thus awakened interest in the study of medicinal plant extracts as alternative sources of anthelmintics. The egg hatching and larvicidal effect of i...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Kamaraj C,Rahuman AA,Elango G,Bagavan A,Zahir AA

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine immunological responses to experimental infection with Trichuris muris and the effects of the resident microbiota on these responses are of increasing interest. For these studies, accurate dose delivery and improved sterilization of inocula are essential to prevent co-infection with unknown contaminants. We fou...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Kopper JJ,Mansfield LS

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thelaziasis is an ocular infection of several mammals caused by nematodes of the genus Thelazia (Spirurida, Thelaziidae). The adults live in the lachrymal ducts and conjunctival sacs of infected animals, and transmission occurs by means of different species of muscids. T. rhodesi, T. skrjabini, and T. gulosa affect ma...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Naem S

更新日期：2007-06-01 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：:The nematode Anisakis simplex is a marine parasite that causes allergy as well as anisakiasis. Although five Anisakis allergens have already been identified, immunoblotting studies suggested that unidentified allergens still exist. In this study, an expression cDNA library constructed from A. simplex was subjected to ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Kobayashi Y,Ishizaki S,Shimakura K,Nagashima Y,Shiomi K

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present paper was to analyse the association between sequences of Entamoeba histolytica and their relationship with the development of hepatic abscesses in hamsters, using a complementary DNA library for E. histolytica. From the sequences obtained, we designed oligonucleotides for amplification by P...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Crisóstomo-Vázquez Mdel P,Jiménez-Cardoso E,Arroyave-Hernández C

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence and abundance of infections with haemoparasites were studied over a 4-year period in Microtus arvalis (common vole, n =321) sampled from fallow grassland sites in north-eastern Poland. Total species richness was five (prevalence= Haemobartonella sp. 63.9%, Bartonella spp. 27.7%, Babesia microti 9.0%, Tr...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Pawelczyk A,Bajer A,Behnke JM,Gilbert FS,Sinski E

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acanthocephalan parasite Acanthocephalus dirus infects the freshwater isopod Caecidotea intermedius as an intermediate host before completing its life cycle in a fish. Transmission to the definitive host occurs after the parasite has reached the cystacanth stage, and development into this stage is associated with ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Korkofigas E,Park T,Sparkes TC

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The var-gene encoding Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 (PfEMP1) is known to play a major role in the pathogenicity of the P. falciparum parasite. The protein enables the parasite to adhere to the endothelial linings of small blood vessels (cytoadherence) as well as to non-infected erythrocytes (ros...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Barfod A,Persson T,Lindh J

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA content of the developmental stages within the life cycle of Babesia divergens was measured by means of fluorescence microscopy using the DNA-specific bisbenzimide Hoechst 33258. By comparing the mean relative fluorescence intensities, the assumption of sexual reproduction in the gut of the tick vector (Ixodes...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Mackenstedt U,Gauer M,Mehlhorn H,Schein E,Hauschild S

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study evaluated the distribution and viability of Toxoplasma gondii tissue cysts in the organs and Brazilian commercial cuts of experimentally infected pigs. The pigs were infected with 3 × 103 oocysts of the T. gondii isolate TgCkBr57 (Type BrII). Mouse bioassays were performed on the brain, retina, tongu...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Alves BF,Oliveira S,Soares HS,Pena HFJ,Conte-Junior CA,Gennari SM

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The electron microscopic investigation of the anterior part of the infective third-stage juvenile of Onchocerca volvulus provides first insights into the structure of the excretory system of this developmental stage of the parasite. The most anterior part of this system consists of a cell process of the syncytial excr...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Strote G,Bonow I

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple schistosome and soil-transmitted nematode infections are frequently reported in human populations living in tropical areas of developing countries. In addition to exposure factors, the host immune response plays an important role in helminth control and morbidity in hosts with multiple infections; however, th...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： de Rezende MC,Araújo ES,Moreira JM,Rodrigues VF,Rodrigues JL,Pereira CA,Negrão-Corrêa D

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An experiment was conducted to study the adjuvant effect of ginsomes on the recombinant profilin in coccidian-infected breeding birds. Three-day-old chickens were vaccinated with Eimeria tenella recombinant profilin antigen (10, 50, and 100 μg per chicken) with or without 50 μg ginsomes per chicken. The boost vaccinat...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Zhang DF,Xu H,Sun BB,Li JQ,Zhou QJ,Zhang HL,Du AF

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sarcocystis sarcocysts are common in many species of domestic and wild animals. Here, we report sarcocystosis in muscles from 91 free range elk (Cervus elaphus) from Pennsylvania, USA, tested by histopathology, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and DNA sequencing. Sarcocysts were detected in hematoxylin and eosi...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Cerqueira-Cézar CK,Thompson PC,Murata FHA,Mowery J,Brown JD,Banfield J,Rosenthal BM,Dubey JP

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diagnostic parameters for visceral leishmaniasis (VL), a potentially fatal parasitic disease caused by Leishmania donovani, have been redefined in the last decade with the development of serological and molecular tests, though a definitive diagnosis still banks on the century-old parasitological methods in many areas....

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Srividya G,Kulshrestha A,Singh R,Salotra P

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During our investigations on helminthofauna in roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) and red deer (Cervus elaphus) in France (1985-1998) we isolated nematodes not only of the genus Haemonchus Cobb, 1898 but also of the genus Ashworthius Le Roux 1930, both of which belong to the same subfamily of Haemonchinae. The prevalence ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Ferté H,Cléva D,Depaquit J,Gobert S,Léger N

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00