Cross-reactions between Eimeria falciformis and Eimeria pragensis in mice induced by trickle infections.

abstract：:The relationships between populations of the Deer Mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) and the White-footed Mouse (P. leucopus) and their respective Cuterebra parasites were examined. Population genetic structure of hosts and parasites was inferred using cytochrome oxidase mitochondrial sequences of specimens from 7 populat...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Noel S,Angers B,Lapointe FJ

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Full-length cDNAs encoding cytosolic (SODc) and putative extracellular (SODe) Cu/Zn superoxide dismutases (SODs) from the ovine gastrointestinal parasitic nematode Haemonchus contortus have been isolated and characterized. The predicted sequences of the H. contortus SODs showed strong homology to other helminth SODs, ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Liddell S,Knox DP

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discrete typing units (DTUs) of Trypanosoma cruzi that infect domestic dogs and cats have rarely been studied. With this purpose we conducted a cross-sectional xenodiagnostic survey of dog and cat populations residing in 2 infested rural villages in Pampa del Indio, in the humid Argentine Chaco. Parasites were iso...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Enriquez GF,Cardinal MV,Orozco MM,Lanati L,Schijman AG,Gürtler RE

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complex life-cycles of parasitic animals are a product of exploiting the process of development to generate organisms with different biological potentials within a species. Successive stages of the parasite adapt to functions such as host invasion and transmission, and to the colonization of a variety of niches, o...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Bianco AE,Maizels RM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants containing condensed tannins (CT) may have potential to control gastrointestinal nematodes (GIN) of cattle. The aim was to investigate the anthelmintic activities of four flavan-3-ols, two galloyl derivatives and 14 purified CT fractions, and to define which structural features of CT determine the anti-parasiti...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Desrues O,Fryganas C,Ropiak HM,Mueller-Harvey I,Enemark HL,Thamsborg SM

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reproductive effort of Lepeophtheirus pectoralis (Müller O. F., 1776), a caligid copepod, which is commonly found infecting the European flounder, Platichthys flesus (Linnaeus, 1758), is studied in detail for the first time. Seasonal variation in body dimensions and reproductive effort are analysed. Data for 120 o...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Frade DG,Santos MJ,Cavaleiro FI

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depending on the extent of evolutionary divergence among parent taxa, hybrids may suffer from a breakdown of co-adapted genes or may conversely exhibit vigour due to the heterosis effect, which confers advantages to increased genetic diversity. That last mechanism could explain the success of hybrids when hybridizatio...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Planade B,Lena JP,Li H,Plenet S,Guegan JF,Thomas F,Hurtrez-Bousses S,Renaud F,Joly P

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myxozoans have been successfully used as tags for fish stock identification around the world. However, few studies using myxozoan tags have been carried out in the Southern Atlantic, a region with complex oceanography that constitutes a potentially suitable scenario for testing the utility of myxozoans as indicators. ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Cantatore DM,Irigoitia MM,Holzer AS,Timi JT

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of our knowledge about the process of penetration of skin, by cercariae of Schistosoma mansoni, has been gained from studies carried out in vivo with laboratory animals. Human skin is significantly different from that of other animals but there are obvious practical difficulties in directly studying attachment an...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Khammo N,Bartlett A,Clothier RH,Whitfield PJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of intermediate hosts with eggs of taeniid parasites results in a larval infestation known as cysticercosis. A number of studies have indicated that cysticercosis is associated with immunosuppression, although little is known about the mechanisms involved. In the present study, mice infected with the larvae ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Villa OF,Kuhn RE

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the great interest to quantify the structure of host-parasite interaction networks, the real influence of some factors such as taxonomy, host body size and ecological opportunity remains poorly understood. In this paper, we investigate the general patterns of organization and structure of interactions in two a...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： D'Bastiani E,Campião KM,Boeger WA,Araújo SBL

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SIV rats infected with a high dose (50,000 oocysts) of Eimeria nieschulzi displayed clinical symptoms of coccidiosis such as diarrhoea (days 6 and 7 post-primary infection) and weight loss (days 6-8 post-primary infection) and were completely immune to challenge with a similar dose. The ability of rats to produce tumo...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Smith NC,Ovington KS,Deplazes P,Eckert J

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) produced by cytokine-activated macrophages is reported to be cytotoxic against the helminth Schistosoma mansoni, although this is a controversial issue. Previous work in our laboratory identified a fraction of S. mansoni soluble adult worm antigenic preparation (SWAP), named PIII, able to elicit sign...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Oliveira DM,Silva-Teixeira DN,Gustavson S,Oliveira SM,Goes AM

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New treatment strategies for schistosomiasis should be evaluated, since resistant strains to the only available drug, Praziquantel, have already been described. Thus, we demonstrated antiparasitic effects of ethanolic extracts of Jatropha gossypiifolia and Piper arboreum on cercariae and adult worms of Schistosoma man...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： da Silva Alves RR,Mendes Rodrigues JG,Teles-Reis A,Araújo Nogueira R,Correia Lima Licá I,Sampaio Lira MG,da Silva Alves R,Silva-Souza N,Aguiar Dos Santos Andrade TJ,Silva Miranda G

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemotactic responses of Strongyloides stercoralis infective larvae (L3) to sodium chloride (NaCl) were investigated by recording larval tracks on a saline gradient in agarose. On agarose, larvae migrated randomly, whereas when placed at 0.01 m NaCl larvae moved to approximately 1.1 m NaCl where they turned, headed do...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Forbes WM,Ashton FT,Boston R,Schad GA

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review of protozoan and helminth infections in pregnancy focuses on the impact on the immune response in the newborn infant to maternal infection. Studies of protozoan and helminth infections in pregnant women and in their offspring have shown that children exposed to antigens or microorganisms during pregnancy o...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Petersen E

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To recognize the stage conversion of Toxoplasma gondii between tachyzoite and bradyzoite in live host cells, a transgenic T. gondii line, which expressed stage-specific red and green fluorescence, was constructed. T. gondii PLK strain tachyzoites were stably transformed with genes encoding red fluorescent protein (DsR...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Unno A,Suzuki K,Batanova T,Cha SY,Jang HK,Kitoh K,Takashima Y

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An apparatus for artificial feeding of Rhipicephalus appendiculatus nymphae was modified to improve feeding performance. Heparinized blood was supplied above a treated artificial membrane while the ticks attached below on its undersurface. The feeding apparatus was incubated at 37 degrees C in an atmosphere of 3% CO2 ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Waladde SM,Young AS,Mwaura SN,Njihia GN,Mwakima FN

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taenia cestodes were obtained from 5 different definitive host species in Kenya and 175 different samples were examined by classical morphological methods and by isoenzyme analysis using isoelectric focusing in agarose. Gels were stained for 17 different enzymes and 3 of these were used in the construction of isoenzym...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Allsopp BA,Jones A,Allsopp MT,Newton SD,Macpherson CN

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freshwater snails of the Bulinus forskalii group are one of four Bulinus species complexes responsible for the transmission of schistosomes in Africa and adjacent regions. The species status of these conchologically variable and widely distributed planorbids remains unclear, and parasite compatibility varies considera...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Jones CS,Rollinson D,Mimpfoundi R,Ouma J,Kariuki HC,Noble LR

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virulence factors from the ROP2-family have been extensively studied in Toxoplasma gondii, but in the closely related Neospora caninum only NcROP2Fam-1 has been partially characterized to date. NcROP40 is a member of this family and was found to be more abundantly expressed in virulent isolates. Both NcROP2Fam-1 and N...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Pastor-Fernández I,Regidor-Cerrillo J,Jiménez-Ruiz E,Álvarez-García G,Marugán-Hernández V,Hemphill A,Ortega-Mora LM

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surface coat of the 2nd-stage juveniles (J2) of plant-parasitic nematodes is considered to be involved in interactions with microorganisms in the soil and rhizosphere, as well as with the host plant. Characterization of surface antigens might be important in the development of new nematode control strategies. In t...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Sharon E,Spiegel Y,Salomon R,Curtis RH

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cumulative effect of co-infections between pathogen pairs on the haematological response of East African Short-horn Zebu calves is described. Using a longitudinal study design a stratified clustered random sample of newborn calves were recruited into the Infectious Diseases of East African Livestock (IDEAL) study ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Van Wyk IC,Goddard A,de C Bronsvoort BM,Coetzer JA,Handel IG,Hanotte O,Jennings A,Lesosky M,Kiara H,Thumbi SM,Toye P,Woolhouse MW,Penzhorn BL

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article I begin with a few current ideas on some physiological factors that influence mating choice in insects. Emphasis is placed on those proteins produced by the male reproductive accessory glands which increase female fecundity and reduce her receptivity to subsequent males. Strategies used by late-arrivin...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kaufman WR

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an experiment to study the infectivity, growth and virulence of Schistocephalus solidus in their first intermediate host, copepods of the species Macrocyclops albidus were kept singly and exposed to up to 9 coracidia. Eleven or 14 days post-infection (p.i.) the presence and growth of the cestode larvae relative to ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Wedekind C

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Longitudinal muscles in adult male Schistosoma mansoni appear to remain in almost all respects functional after tegumental disruption by Triton X-100. Responses to high K+, ouabain, low temperature, praziquantel and neurotransmitters are still present. Muscle membrane potentials remain near those of control animals an...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Depenbusch JW,Thompson DP,Pax RA,Bennett JL

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein composition of Schistosoma mansoni was analysed by electrophoresis in polyacrylamide slab gel in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulphate. A high degree of identity existed between protein patterns obtain from immature and adult parasites of the two sexes. Some stage-and sex-specific components were indenti...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Ruppel A,Cioli D

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fine structure of the oncosphere of Hymenolepis nana has been investigated by transmission and scanning electron microscopy, together with light microscope observations of JB-4 embedded material. The outer surface of the oncosphere is covered by an epithelial layer, termed the embryonic epithelium. Cell types pres...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Fairweather I,Threadgold LT

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Calliphoridae include some of the most economically significant myiasis-causing flies in the world - blowflies and screwworm flies - with many being notorious for their parasitism of livestock. However, despite more than 50 years of research, key taxonomic relationships within the family remain unresolved. This st...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： McDonagh LM,Stevens JR

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Promastigotes of Leishmania braziliensis panamensis absorbed the purines adenine, hypoxanthine, adenosine and inosine by a combination of diffusion and mediated components. When the uptake rates for these substrates were corrected for diffusion and compared, the purine bases adenine and hypoxanthine were transported a...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Hansen BD,Perez-Arbelo J,Walkony JF,Hendricks LD

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00