Taxonomic composition and endemism of the helminth fauna of freshwater fishes of Mexico.

abstract：:The dog's role as a definitive host for a number of zoonotic parasites has been widely studied and recognized as being a significant public health problem worldwide. This study aimed to report, for the first time, our investigation into the role of dogs as a biological transmitter for Ascaris lumbricoides, via necrops...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Shalaby HA,Abdel-Shafy S,Derbala AA

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP, in western China), which is the largest and highest plateau on Earth, is a highly epidemic region for Echinococcus spp. We collected 70 Echinococcus samples from humans, dogs, sheep, yaks, plateau pikas, and voles in eastern and southern Qinghai and genotyped them using the mitochondr...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Ma J,Wang H,Lin G,Craig PS,Ito A,Cai Z,Zhang T,Han X,Ma X,Zhang J,Liu Y,Zhao Y,Wang Y

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, Diplectanum laubieri was redescribed from material obtained from wild and cultured fish. The population dynamics of D. aequans and D. laubieri under culture conditions was studied. The prevalence and mean intensity (average number of worms per parasitized fish) were 80.64% and 112 for D. aequans ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： González-Lanza C,Alvarez-Pellitero P,Sitjá-Bobadilla A

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the accelerated movement of population, human parasitoses become an increasingly serious public health's problem. Currently, detections of parasite eggs through microscopic images are still the golden standard for diagnoses. However, this conventional method relies heavily on the experiences of inspectors, thus g...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Li Z,Gong H,Zhang W,Chen L,Tao J,Song L,Wu Z

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiostrongylus cantonensis invasion primarily cause heavy or negligible eosinophic meningitis and meningoencephalitis in the brain of non-permissive and permissive hosts, respectively. Chemokines are effective leukocyte chemoattractants and may play an essential role in mediating eosinophil recruitment in angiostrong...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Li S,Yang F,Ji P,Zeng X,Wu X,Wei J,Ouyang L,Liang J,Zheng H,Wu Z,Lv Z

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The localisation and distribution of the cholinergic, serotoninergic and peptidergic components of the nervous system of the frog-lung fluke Haplometra cylindracea have been determined by the application of standard enzyme cytochemical and immunocytochemical techniques to cryostat sections and whole-mount preparations...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： McKay DM,Halton DW,Johnston CF,Fairweather I,Shaw C

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vector control is facing a threat due to the emergence of resistance to synthetic insecticides. Insecticides of plant origin my serve as an alternative biocontrol technique in the future. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the larvicidal activity of fractions and compounds from the whole-plant methanol extra...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Elumalai D,Hemavathi M,Hemalatha P,Deepaa CV,Kaleena PK

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosoma acomys (Stercoraria, Trypanosomatidae) was studied in the laboratory-bred spiny mouse Acomys cahirinus. Only trypomastigotes were found in peripheral blood, whereas the thymus of experimentally infected A. cahirinus showed amastigote syncytial reproductive forms whose nuclei of nuclei ranged from 2 to 128....

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Abdallah MA,Abdel-Hafez SK,al-Yaman FM

更新日期：1989-01-01 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 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：:SAG2 locus, the coding gene of the P22 protein, has been widely used for the molecular epidemiology of Toxoplasma gondii and characterization of the parasite isolates with two separate polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) processes. To re-assess the resolution power and suita...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Fazaeli A,Ebrahimzadeh A

更新日期：2007-06-01 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：:Cystic echinococcosis (CE) is a widespread zoonosis. For treating single echinococcal cysts during the last decades, therapeutic puncture of the cyst, aspiration, injection of a scolicide, and re-aspiration (PAIR) has been established as a minimal-invasive alternative method to surgery. A recent review on the complica...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Richter J,Profis E,Holtfreter MC,Orhun A,Müller-Stöver I,Dedelen H,Kubitz R

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the objective of identifying the helminths of Paroaria coronata, 40 birds were necropsied, and their organs and contents were examined. The parasites were preserved in 70 masculineGL alcohol and prepared for identification using standard techniques. The helminth fauna found in P. coronata were Aproctella carinii,...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Mascarenhas CS,Krüger C,Müller G

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excretory/secretory (ES) products collected from exsheathed L3 or parasitic stages of Haemonchus contortus were tested in vitro for gastrin stimulatory properties using an ovine abomasal antral mucosal preparation. In addition, the motility of exsheathed L3 and parasites recovered on weeks 2, 6 and 8 post-infection wa...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Haag E,Lawton D,Simpson HV

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental concurrent infection with two or more parasite species in mammalian host models may result in heterologous antagonistic and synergistic interactions ranging in magnitude from reduced/enhanced growth and fecundity to blockage/enhancement of establishment/expulsion. With some exceptions only, there is a rea...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Christensen NO,Nansen P,Fagbemi BO,Monrad J

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasmosis represents an important public health issue, with the consumption of raw or undercooked meat being a major way of human infection. The role of beef in the transmission of the parasite to humans is questioned due to lower quantity of tissue cysts compared with other meat-producing species. However, the ha...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Gazzonis AL,Marino AMF,Garippa G,Rossi L,Mignone W,Dini V,Giunta RP,Luini M,Villa L,Zanzani SA,Manfredi MT

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schistosoma is the causative agent of schistosomiasis, a common infectious disease distributed worldwide. Our previous phosphoproteomic analysis suggested that glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK3), a conserved protein kinase in eukaryotes, is likely involved in protein phosphorylation of Schistosoma japonicum. Here, we a...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Liu J,Li H,Xia T,Du P,Giri B,Li X,Li X,Cheng G

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus are key vectors in the spread of arboviruses such as dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever, and Zika. Triatoma rubrofasciata is an "assassin bug" whose populations and association with humans have dramatically increased and may represent a serious health concern. Control of insect vectors ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Satyal P,Hieu HV,Chuong NTH,Hung NH,Sinh LH,Van The P,Tai TA,Hien VT,Setzer WN

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first description of an electron microscopic study of Trypanosoma corvi in the vector Ornithomyia avicularia is reported. There is a close association between vector and parasite in the midgut, ileum and rectum of the vector. The midgut distribution of parasites is determined by the peritrophic membrane, which con...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Mungomba LM,Molyneux DH,Wallbanks KR

更新日期：1989-01-01 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：: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：:Cytokine responses of lymphocytes against Toxoplasma gondii are usually studied by stimulating the cells from infected animals with tachyzoite lysate antigens (TLA) in vitro. We examined whether strains (genotypes) of the parasite used for TLA affect the production of IL-2, IL-4, IL-10 and IFN-gamma in the culture of ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Rodgers L,Wang X,Wen X,Dunford B,Miller R,Suzuki Y

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neodiplostomum seoulense (Digenea: Neodiplostomidae), an intestinal trematode infecting humans and rodents, is known to be highly pathogenic and lethal to experimentally infected mice. Only a small proportion of mice can survive from its infection. This study aimed to assess the reproductive capacity of surviving BALB...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Shin EH,Im TK,Park YK,Cho J,Kim JL,Chai JY

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection in dogs and humans with the protozoan parasite Leishmania are widespread in tropical and subtropical countries around the globe. Sand flies of the order Phlebotomus in the Old World and Lutzomyia in the New World function as the vector of this disease. In dogs, skin lesions are the most prominent signs of ca...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Mencke N,Volf P,Volfova V,Stanneck D

更新日期：2003-07-01 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：:An easy and rapid tool for the individual identification of Haemonchus species in domestic ruminants might be very useful in the study of natural populations, especially when two (or three) species are sympatric. Techniques based on cytology, cuticular-ridge patterns, sublateral hypodermic chords, or molecular biology...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Jacquiet P,Cabaret J,Cheikh D,Thiam E

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the Naegleria genus are free-living amoebae, and the only pathogenic specie described to date for humans is N. fowleri. However, as the complete genome of this specie has not been reported, non-pathogenic N. gruberi is employed to describe molecular pathways in N. fowleri. Regardless, certain mechanisms, su...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Cárdenas-Zúñiga R,Sánchez-Monroy V,Bermúdez-Cruz RM,Rodríguez MA,Serrano-Luna J,Shibayama M

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:The Brazilian savannah-like area, the Cerrado region, covers large areas of the country and provides a habitat for a multitude of different animal species. The giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) is geographically widespread and one of the typical inhabitants of the Cerrado. They are listed as vulnerable by the I...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Frank R,Melaun C,Martins MM,Santos AL,Heukelbach J,Klimpel S

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00