Effects of Schistosoma mansoni infection on lutein and β-carotene concentrations in Biomphalaria glabrata snails as determined by quantitative high performance reversed phase thin-layer chromatography.

abstract：:Ancylostoma ceylanicum belongs to a group of soil-transmitted helminths, which infect almost 576 mln people worldwide and are a major cause of anaemia and malnutrition. Upon contact with a permissive host, third-stage larvae (L3) residing in the environment become activated larvae (ssL3), a process associated with cha...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Siwińska AM,Bąska P,Daniłowicz-Luebert E,Januszkiewicz K,Długosz E,Wędrychowicz H,Cappello M,Wiśniewski M

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The main drug used against Hymenolepis nana is praziquantel (PZQ), which causes side effects and toxicity. In contrast, natural extracts have limited side effects and are safer. Past researches have proved that pumpkin seeds are effective as natural antimicrobial and antiparasitic treatment. The present study...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Alhawiti AO,Toulah FH,Wakid MH

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A high infestation of the monogenean Gussevia tucunarense in a cultivation of bujurqui-tucunare was reported. The prevalence was 100%. The mean intensity and abundance of the parasite was 164.4 of parasites per individual. This is the first report of a high infestation by G. tucunarense in C. semifasciatus cultured fr...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Mathews PD,Mertins O,Mathews JP,Orbe RI

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Parasitism is a complex problem that is often ignored in companion animals, including birds, unless it develops into a severe clinical disorder. The present study was, therefore, aimed to investigate the presence of the gastrointestinal nematode infecting the domestic pigeon and provide a complete morphologi...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Al Quraishy S,Abdel-Gaber R,Dkhil MA,Alzuabi K

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study concerns a new neogregarine parasitic in the great spruce bark beetle Dendroctonus micans (Kugelann) (Curculionidae, Scolytinae). The rate of infection was high, reaching 27.3%. There was no difference in the rate of infection of male and female beetles. The life-cycle stages of the pathogen were described ...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Yaman M,Radek R

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The smokybrown cockroach Periplaneta fuliginosa has spread all over the world, and is now one of the most undesired invasive alien pests in Japan. Because cockroaches are generally infected by thelastomatid nematodes, they are being distributed around the world with their parasitic nematodes. Nothing is known about pa...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Ozawa S,Vicente CS,Sato K,Yoshiga T,Kanzaki N,Hasegawa K

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of zoonotic parasites in feral cats have been widely considered all over the world. In Gran Canaria (Macaronesian archipelago, Canary Islands, Spain) the number of feral cats has grown out of control in urban and rural areas. 48 of Felis catus captured in different Gran Canaria areas were studied. Animals...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Rodríguez-Ponce E,González JF,de Felipe MC,Hernández JN,Raduan Jaber J

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BACKGROUND : Tetraonchidae is a small and relatively monomorphic family of dactylogyroid monogeneans. Since the morphology of sclerites of the attachment organ (haptor) is one of the primary criteria in tetraonchid taxonomy, the confocal study of sclerites and associated musculature may provide valuable taxonomic info...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Petrov AA,Gerasev PI

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PURPOSE : The present study aimed to investigate the amoebicidal and amoebistatic efects of Artemisia argyi leaf methanolic extract by testing the effects on trophozoites and on cysts. We also determined cytotoxic effect, enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidant activities, total phenolic, lavonoid and antioxidative co...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Kolören O,Kolören Z,Şekeroğlu ZA,Çolayvaz M,Karanis P

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs) are important biocontrol agents of insect pests. To increase the availability of locally adapted entomopathogenic nematode isolates for biocontrol programs, a survey of several agricultural soils in Western Uttar Pradesh, India was conducted. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Eight h...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Bhat AH,Chaubey AK,Shokoohi E,Machado RAR

更新日期：2020-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mascarene grass frog Ptychadena cf. mascareniensis is a species of frog with a vast area of distribution in Africa. A total of 300 frog specimens were collected from different localities at El-Giza province, Egypt; then dissected and examined for the presence of parasitic infection. Only eighty six (28.66%) specim...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Abdel-Gaber R,Abdel-Ghaffar F,Kamel R,Maher S,El Deeb N,Al Quraishy S,Mehlhorn H

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nematodes Ashworthius sidemi are typical parasites of Asiatic cervids, mostly sika deer (Cervus nippon). Migrating red deer have probably introduced this parasite to the area of Poland from neighbouring countries. The aim of the study was to determine prevalence and intensity of infection of red deer and roe deer from...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Demiaszkiewicz AW,Merta D,Kobielski J,Filip KJ,Pyziel AM

更新日期：2017-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiogenesis is one of the pillars of neoplasia. Lymphangiogenesis in context of granulomas is not yet understood. This study aimed to evaluate the role of praziquantel (PZQ) and artemether (ART) as anti-angiogenic and anti-lymphangiogenic drugs in Schistosoma mansoni induced experimental hepatic model through immunoh...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Abd El-Aal NF,Hamza RS,Magdy M

更新日期：2017-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of 5, 20, and 40 miracidia dose exposures of Echinostoma caproni on the amino acid contents of Biomphalaria glabrata were studied using high performance thin-layer chromatography-densitometry. Amino acids were identified and quantified in whole bodies of exposed snails and in the uninfected matched control...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Nguyen M,Fried B,Sherma J

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two species of parasitic nematodes, Heliconema ahiri Karve, 1941 (Physalopteridae) and Procamallanus (Spirocamallanus) anguillae Moravec et al., 2006 (Camallanidae), were recorded from the Indonesian shortfin eel Anguilla bicolor bicolor Mc-Clelland in the Chalakkudi River and Veli Lake, respectively, both Kerala, Ind...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Moravec F,Sheeba S,Kumar AB

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:It is not clear that Blastocystis remains without damage to the digestive tract or has a pathogenic effect in relation to subtypes in immunocompromised people, such as cancer patients. The present study aimed to investigate the frequency and subtype distribution of Blastocystis in cancer patients who were follo...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Mülayim S,Aykur M,Dağcı H,Dalkılıç S,Aksoy A,Kaplan M

更新日期：2021-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Propolis (bee glue) is a resinous mixture of different plant exudates that possesses a wide range of biological and antimicrobial activities and has been used as a food supplement and in complementary medicine for centuries. Some researchers have proposed that propolis could be a potential curative compound aga...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Asfaram S,Fakhar M,Keighobadi M,Akhtari J

更新日期：2020-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Felids are the only definitive hosts of Toxoplasma gondii. To lay a foundation for screening the T. gondii-felids interaction factors, we have developed a reproducible primary culture method for cat intestinal epithelial cells (IECs). The primary IECs were isolated from a new born cat's small intestine jejunum region ...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Zhao GH,Liu Y,Cheng YT,Zhao QS,Qiu X,Xu C,Xiao T,Zhu S,Liu GZ,Yin K

更新日期：2018-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspiculuris tianjinensis sp. nov. recovered from the intestine of Clethrionomys rufocanus from Tianjin, China is described and illustrated using light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy. The new species differs from congeners in the shape of the cervical alae, and the number and arrangement of caudal papillae...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Liu B,Bu Y,Zhang L

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new isosporoid coccidian species (Protozoa: Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) is reported from the southern house wren Troglodytes musculus, a very well distributed species in South and Central America. Isospora corruirae sp. nov. oocysts are subspherical to ovoidal, 24.1 × 21.4 μm, with smooth, bilayered wall. Micropyle and...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： doBomfim Lopes B,Rodrigues MB,da Silva LM,Berto BP,Luz HR,Ferreira I,Lopes CW

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The black grouper Mycteroperca bonaci is a commercially important fish off the coast of Yucatan, Mexico. To investigate possible differences between parasite communities in two different environments, 60 fish were collected from two areas during 2010 and 2011 and examined for parasites. The fish were classified into t...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Espínola-Novelo JF,González-Salas C,Guillén-Hernández S,MacKenzie K

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal coccidian parasites are intracellular protozoa most frequently transmitted during food-borne and water-borne infections. This group of parasites is responsible for acute diarrhoeal illnesses especially among immunocompromised patients. However, they are more frequently detected in immunocompetent individual...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Kłudkowska M,Pielok Ł,Frąckowiak K,Paul M

更新日期：2017-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Alveolar echinococcosis, caused by the tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis, is one of the world's most dangerous zoonosis and an emerging disease with growing incidence in humans. The disease has been reported in new areas and host species in the last two decades, and the primary hosts of the parasite - red fox, gold...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Sindičić M,Bujanić M,Štimac I,Martinković F,Tuškan N,Špehar M,Konjević D

更新日期：2018-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Haemaphysalis longicornis is an important ectoparasite of domestic and wild animals that can transmit many pathogens including viruses, fungi, bacteria and protozoa. MATERIALS AND METHODS:In this study, we examined genetic variation and population genetics in three mitochondrial (mt) genes [cox1 (cytochro...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Li ZB,Fu YT,Cheng TY,Yao GM,Hou QH,Li F,Zhao Y,Zou FC,Liu GH

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new species of Coronocestus Caira, Marques, Jensen, Kuchta and Ivanov, 2013 is described from Iago omanensis (Norman) from the Gulf of Oman. Coronocestus ehsanentezarii sp. nov. differs from C. musteli (Pintner, 1889) Caira, Marques, Jensen, Kuchta and Ivanov, 2013 in that its ovary is H- rather than U-shape. The ne...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Haseli M,Azad S

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this retrospective, population-based study was to characterize demographically and clinically cystic-echinococcosis (CE) in southern Israel, between 2005 and 2012. Newly-diagnosed (nd-CE) and past-diagnosed (pd-CE, diagnosed before the study) cases were defined. Two populations live in southern-Israel, rece...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Ben-Shimol S,Sagi O,Houri O,Bazarsky E,Berkowitz A,Bulkowstein S,Barrett C,Greenberg D

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An in vitro study has been carried out to monitor changes to the female reproductive system in adult triclabendazole (TCBZ)-resistant Fasciola hepatica following treatment with a commercial preparation of myrrh ("Mirazid"). Flukes were immersed for 6 h and 24 h in myrrh extract at a concentration of 200 µg/ml, then pr...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Abdelaal MMO,Brennan GP,Hanna REB,Abdel-Aziz A,Fairweather I

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Geographic information system (GIS) or Health geography is a geographical identification of the spatial variation of contagion disease and zoonosis risk in certain conditions. OBJECTIVE:Comparing the variation of environmental contamination of Toxocara spp. sands of lawns and public areas through the Geogra...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Marchioro AA,Colli CM,Ferreira ÉC,Tiyo R,Mattia S,de Souza WF,Falavigna-Guilherme AL

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Enterocytozoon bieneusi, the dominant zoonotic species of microsporidia, has been reported in various animals and humans. However, relatively little information is available concerning the worldwide prevalence and genotypes of E. bieneusi in ruminants, such as sheep and goats. The present study was conducted...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Li WC,Wang K,Gu YF

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chimeric DNA vaccines co-expressing Eimeria acervulina macrophage migration inhibitory factor (E.MIF) and chicken IL-2 (IL-2) or interferon-γ (IFN-γ) were constructed and their efficacies against E. acervulina were evaluated. The open reading frame (ORF) of E.MIF was cloned from E. acervulina merozoites and subcloned ...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Song X,Zhang R,Xu L,Yan R,Li X

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00