Plasmodium falciparum infection-induced changes in erythrocyte membrane proteins.

abstract：:Gregarines thrive in the digestive tract of arthropods and may be deleterious to their hosts, especially when present in high densities. The impact of parasites on these invertebrates may affect both the ecosystem equilibrium and human economic activities. However, information available on gregarines in Spain is limit...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Criado-Fornelio A,Verdú-Expósito C,Martin-Pérez T,Heredero-Bermejo I,Pérez-Serrano J,Guàrdia-Valle L,Panisello-Panisello M

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) are a key threat for millions of people worldwide, since they act as vectors for devastating pathogens and parasites. The standard method of utilisation of morphological characters becomes challenging due to various factors such as phenotypical variations. We explored the complementary ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Murugan K,Vadivalagan C,Karthika P,Panneerselvam C,Paulpandi M,Subramaniam J,Wei H,Aziz AT,Alsalhi MS,Devanesan S,Nicoletti M,Paramasivan R,Parajulee MN,Benelli G

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multicomponent DNA vaccine, encoding Toxoplasma gondii GRA1 and SAG1, was constructed and tested for its ability to confer protection. BALB/c mice were challenged with tachyzoites of the virulent T. gondii RH strain at 4 weeks following the last immunization, and immune responses and survival times were observed. Th...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Wu XN,Lin J,Lin X,Chen J,Chen ZL,Lin JY

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic Chagas' disease affects 10-30 % of patients infected with Trypanosoma cruzi, and it mainly manifests as cardiomyopathy. Important pathophysiological mechanisms involved in the cardiac lesions include activation of the endothelium and induced microvascular alterations. These processes involve the production of ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Molina-Berríos A,Campos-Estrada C,Lapier M,Duaso J,Kemmerling U,Galanti N,Ferreira J,Morello A,López-Muñoz R,Maya JD

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In frozen sections of the acanthocephalan Pomphorhynchus laevis, which is a frequent intestinal parasite of cyprinid and salmonid fishes, leucine aminopeptidase (APase) was localized histochemically in outer parts of the presomal bulbus as well as in all layers and most nuclei of the metasomal body wall. Enzyme activi...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Volkmann A,Polzer M

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmaniasis is a geographically widespread disease caused by protozoan parasites belonging to the genus Leishmania and transmitted by certain species of sand fly. This disease still remains endemic in China, especially in the west and northwest frontier regions. A recent ITS1 phylogeny of Chinese Leishmania isolates...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Cao DP,Guo XG,Chen DL,Chen JP

更新日期：2011-07-01 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：: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 larvicidal activities of methanolic fractions from Adhatoda vasica leaf extracts were investigated against the bancroftian filariasis vector Culex quinquefasciatus and dengue vector Aedes aegypti. The results indicated that the mortality rates was high at 100, 150, 200 and 250 ppm of methanol extract of fractions ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Thanigaivel A,Chandrasekaran R,Revathi K,Nisha S,Sathish-Narayanan S,Kirubakaran SA,Senthil-Nathan S

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An open randomized controlled study of artemether-lumefantrine (AL) and amodiaquine-sulfalene-pyrimethamine (ASP) for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria was carried out in 181 children. In 79 children, the hepatomegaly reduction ratios (HRR) and the speed of resolution of hepatomegaly, the he...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Sowunmi A,Gbotosho GO,Adedeji AA,Tambo E,Fateye BA,Happi CT,Amoo AO

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spermatogenesis, testes, and vas deferens in the parthenogenetic monozoic tapeworm Atractolytocestus huronensis Anthony, 1958 (Cestoda: Caryophyllidea) from Slovakia, parasitizing the carp Cyprinus carpio L., have been investigated by means of transmission electron microscopy for the first time. The present results sh...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Bruňanská M,Nebesářová J,Oros M

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fecal specimens from 432 pre-weaned calves younger than 35 days were collected over a 2-year period (2010-2012) from 74 dairy cattle farms in the central area of Colombia. These samples were microscopically examined for the presence of Cryptosporidium oocysts, and positive specimens were selected for molecular examina...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Avendaño C,Ramo A,Vergara-Castiblanco C,Sánchez-Acedo C,Quílez J

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gyrodactylid monogeneans are considered to be the most invasive fish parasites. They are omnipresent on teleost fishes and host change might play a crucial role in their biology. In the present study, related fish species were kept in single- or mixed-species groups to test the ability of Gyrodactylus species to chang...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Blazek RD,Bagge A,Valtonen ET

更新日期：2008-05-01 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：:Cyclospora spp. in nonhuman primates are most closely related to Cyclospora cayetanensis, an emerging human pathogen causing outbreaks of cyclosporiasis in North America. Studies thus far indicate the possible existence of host specificity in Cyclospora spp. In this study, 411 fecal specimens from free-range rhesus mo...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Li N,Ye J,Arrowood MJ,Ma J,Wang L,Xu H,Feng Y,Xiao L

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：:This study examines the seasonal changes in a population of cosmocercid nematode parasites in a natural environment in an amphibian host of the Neotropical realm. A total of 232 individuals (83 females, 105 males, and 44 larvae) of Cosmocerca podicipinus were collected from 105 Pseudopaludicola boliviana from Corrient...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： González CE,Hamann MI

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amphibian populations are declining around the world, and the main reasons are the environmental changes and pathogens. However, there are few studies addressing the interaction and impact of the different pathogens that affect amphibians, such as hemoparasites. These parasites had been described as common in some amp...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Isaak-Delgado AB,López-Díaz O,Romero-Callejas E,Martínez-Hernández F,Muñoz-García CI,Villalobos G,Rendón-Franco E

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three monoclonal antibodies generated by immunization of mice with Plasmodium berghei-infected red blood cells were found to react with the 75-kDa heat-shock protein (HSP70) present in liver stages and erythrocytic forms of the parasites. These antibodies were shown to react with a recombinant protein encoding the car...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Tsuji M,Mattei D,Nussenzweig RS,Eichinger D,Zavala F

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study deals with investigation of larvicidal activity and their chemical constituents of the essential oil from the seeds of Nigella sativa L. (Ranunculaceae). Totally, 18 chemical compounds were identified by GC and GC-MS analysis. Thymol (19.13 %) and α-phellandrene (14.9 %) were identified as major chem...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Raj GA,Chandrasekaran M,Krishnamoorthy S,Jayaraman M,Venkatesalu V

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cross-sectional study was conducted to evaluate the seroprevalence of and risk factors for Toxoplasma gondii antibodies in 260 blood donors seen at blood banks in Mansoura University Hospital, Egypt. Blood donors were interviewed about sociodemographic characteristics and risk factors for T. gondii infection. A bloo...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Elsheikha HM,Azab MS,Abousamra NK,Rahbar MH,Elghannam DM,Raafat D

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Giardia lamblia and Cryptosporidium parvum are recognized as the most common protozoan infections in Saudi Arabia. Microscopic examination of stool samples, either direct or concentrated, for the recovery of G. lamblia cysts and trophozoites and C. parvum oocysts is still the most commonly used for the diagnosis of bo...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Elsafi SH,Al-Maqati TN,Hussein MI,Adam AA,Hassan MM,Al Zahrani EM

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A clinical field trial was performed to evaluate the efficacy of imidacloprid, the active ingredient of Advantage 10% Spot-On, against natural lice infestations on dogs. Imidacloprid was highly effective against both sucking (Linognathus setosus) and biting (Trichodectes canis) lice over the 6-week period of the trial...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Hanssen I,Mencke N,Asskildt H,Ewald-Hamm D,Dorn H

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suckling rabbits from six litters were orally inoculated at various ages with oocysts of Eimeria flavescens or Eimeria intestinalis. The total number of oocysts in the ceca served to estimate parasite reproduction. The rabbits at 14 and 16 days old remained uninfected, and in 19-day-old animals, low or no oocyst shedd...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Pakandl M,Hlásková L

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monosaccharides, lectins, periodate, trypsin and neuraminidase were used to analyse the process of adhesion of Giardia duodenalis trophozoites to IEC cells, an intestinal epithelial cell line. Addition of N-acetyl-glucosamine, N-acetyl-galactosamine, galactose and fucose to the interaction medium inhibited attachment ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Pegado MG,de Souza W

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes the ultrastructural organisation of the spermatozoon of a digenean Enodiotrema reductum (Pligiorchiida: Plagiorchiidae) from the green turtle Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758). This is the first report of E. reductum from Senegal. The mature spermatozoon of E. reductum is filiform and exhibits two a...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Ndiaye PI,Quilichini Y,Sène A,Tkach VV,Bâ CT,Marchand B

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With this case report, we describe Trombiculidae larvae (Neotrombicula autumnalis) infestation in a Little Bittern (Ixobrychus minutus) which was brought to our clinics by the Directorship of Environmental and Forestry authorities of Samsun, Turkey in April, 2007. The male Little Bittern (I. minutus), with a black bac...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Cakiroglu D,Pekmezci D,Meral Y,Gokalp G,Acici M

更新日期：2008-04-01 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：:A post-embedding immunogold technique was used to examine the subcellular distribution of immunoreactivities to the invertebrate peptide, FMR-Famide, and to vertebrate pancreatic polypeptide (PP) within the central nervous system of the trematode, Fasciola hepatica. Gold labeling of peptide was localised exclusively o...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Brownlee DJ,Brennan GP,Halton DW,Fairweather I,Shaw C

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00