Mice infected with the larvae of Taenia crassiceps exhibit a Th2-like immune response with concomitant anergy and downregulation of Th1-associated phenomena.

abstract：:Kudoid parasites are significant pathogens of marine fish. In the past, specific identification has been difficult due to a paucity of detailed morphological and biological information provided in the original description of some species. However, the introduction of DNA analysis has dramatically improved diagnosis. F...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Burger MA,Adlard RD

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study characterized antigens of Trichinella spiralis and T. pseudospiralis muscle larvae recognized by mice infected with the worms. Two-dimensional (2-D) Western blot analysis revealed some profile of antigenic peptides including: (1) molecular weight (MW); (2) isoelectric points (pI), (3) reactivity to well-def...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Wu Z,Nagano I,Takahashi Y

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of the free-living stages of Ostertagia ostertagi incubated at constant temperatures from 5 to 27 degrees C and in dung pats in the field was observed. The death rates were adequately described by a single exponential functional and the distribution of times for development by a delayed gamma density f...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Young RR,Nicholson RM,Tweedie RL,Schuh HJ

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently available methods for the diagnosis of human schistosomiasis often lack enough sensitivity and specificity. Recently, several authors have developed more specific and sensitive diagnostic methods, mainly based on the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique. Nevertheless, these have been only applied for th...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Sandoval N,Siles-Lucas M,Pérez-Arellano JL,Carranza C,Puente S,López-Abán J,Muro A

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High levels of molecular diversity were identified in mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase (cox1) gene sequences of Schistosoma turkestanicum from Hungary. These cox1 sequences were all specific to Hungary which contrasted with the low levels of diversity seen in the nuclear internal transcribed spacer region (ITS) sequ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Lawton SP,Bowen LI,Emery AM,Majoros G

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism by which Giardia lamblia exerts its pathogenicity is likely to be multifactorial. A 58 kDa enterotoxin was purified and characterized from the excretory-secretory product (ESP) of the parasite (Kaur et al. 2001). In the present study an attempt has been made to elucidate the mechanism of action of the ES...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Shant J,Ghosh S,Bhattacharyya S,Ganguly NK,Majumdar S

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigations were carried out into the properties and localization of chitin synthase (EC 2.4.1.16) in connection with the formation of Ascaris suum egg-shells. The chitin synthase of eggs exhibited properties very similar to those found in other chitin-synthesizing organisms. It was stimulated by the presence of AT...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Dubinský P,Rybos M,Turceková L

更新日期：1986-02-01 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：:This paper reviews naturally occurring and synthetic compounds that either enhance immune defences or lower both natural and acquired immunity. Immunomodulatory agents used both for laboratory study and clinically for the management of immunologically based diseases are considered. ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Nüssler AK,Thomson AW

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:West-central China is an important endemic focus of both alveolar and cystic echinococcosis where several species of intermediate host are commonly infected with Echinococcus granulosus and E. multilocularis . Isolates of E. granulosus were collected from humans and other animals from different geographical areas of Q...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Yang YR,Rosenzvit MC,Zhang LH,Zhang JZ,McManus DP

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quinine (QN) and quinidine (QND) have been commonly used as effective and affordable antimalarials for over many years. Quinine primarily is used for severe malaria treatment. However, plasmodia resistance to these drugs and poor patient compliance limits their administration to the patients. The declining sensitivity...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Pandey SK,Dwivedi H,Singh S,Siddiqui WA,Tripathi R

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence comparisons have recently shown that the Schistosoma mansoni protein Sm32 is similar to asparaginyl endoproteinases, a novel family of cysteine proteinases, of which the legumains from legumes are the best characterized. By synthesizing and employing fluorogenic peptide substrates for the specific detection o...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Dalton JP,Hola-Jamriska L,Brindley PJ

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A metabolic pathway known as the mannitol cycle has been identified in Eimerian parasites. The pathway is a shunt off of the glycolytic pathway at fructose-6-phosphate (F6P). Two enzymes convert F6P to mannitol and two other enzymes are responsible for converting mannitol back to F6P when it is utilized. Although the ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Schmatz DM

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endotoxaemia has been described in cases of Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), but it is unclear if this phenomenon influences inflammatory pathology either in the periphery or central nervous system (CNS). We studied endotoxin concentrations in the plasma and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of Trypanosoma brucei rhodesie...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Maclean L,Aboubaker EA,Kennedy PG,Sternberg JM

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes during development in the elemental contents (Ca, P, K, Mg and S) of male and female Schistosoma mansoni from both mixed and single sex infections have been measured for the first time. In mixed infections, there is a significant difference between the calcium content of male and female worms; female worms hav...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Shaw MK,Erasmus DA

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endosymbiotic bacteria of the genus Wolbachia infect a number of invertebrate species in which they induce various alterations in host reproduction, mainly cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI). In contrast to most other maternally transmitted parasites, manipulation of host reproduction makes the spread of Wolbachia possi...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Fleury F,Vavre F,Ris N,Fouillet P,Boulétreau M

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated intestinal trichomonads in western lowland gorillas, central chimpanzees and humans cohabiting the forest ecosystem of Dzanga-Sangha Protected Area in Central African Republic, using the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region and SSU rRNA gene sequences. Trichomonads belonging to the genus Tetratrich...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Petrželková KJ,Smejkalová P,Céza V,Pafčo B,Shutt-Phillips KA,Todd A,Jirků-Pomajbíková K,Benavides J,Modrý D,Čepička I

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptors interacting with terminal sugars as ligands are involved in the binding of Leishmania donovani promastigotes to the macrophage surface and their subsequent internalization. Mannose and glucose are specifically involved in the binding process. Decreased binding occurs to macrophages already infected with L. d...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Dutta M,Bandyopadhyay R,Basu MK

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genomes of more than 20 helminths have now been sequenced. Here we perform a meta-analysis of all sequenced genomes of nematodes and Platyhelminthes, and attempt to address the question of what are the defining characteristics of helminth genomes. We find that parasitic worms lack systems for surface antigenic var...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Zarowiecki M,Berriman M

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：SUMMARY:The spermatozoa of ticks are anomalous in many respects: they are very large, cytoplasm-rich cells which lack a flagellum but move with a peculiar gliding motility. Their metamorphosis after deposition in the female has been well documented, but many of the subsequent events in the career of the spermatozoa are...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Resler JH,Frazier JL,Shepherd JG,Modafferi JD

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cats were repeatedly inoculated with infective larvae of Brugia pahangi. On parasitological grounds they could be divided into 5 groups. Group I--most cats (some 70%) became microfilaraemic (mf+) and retained high levels of microfilariae (mf) in their blood for over 2 years. In some Group I cats mf counts stabilized a...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Denham DA,Medeiros F,Baldwin C,Kumar H,Midwinter IC,Birch DW,Smail A

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glycolytic enzyme triosephosphate isomerase catalyses the isomerization between glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate and dihydroxyacetone phosphate. Here we report that Trichomonas vaginalis contains 2 fully functional tpi genes. Both genes are located in separated chromosomal context with different promoter regulatory elem...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Figueroa-Angulo EE,Estrella-Hernández P,Salgado-Lugo H,Ochoa-Leyva A,Gómez Puyou A,Campos SS,Montero-Moran G,Ortega-López J,Saab-Rincón G,Arroyo R,Benítez-Cardoza CG,Brieba LG

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, through a national programme for schistosomiasis control, this infection has been eliminated from Iran. The aim of this study was to report the process of significant decrease of urogenital schistosomiasis in southwestern Iran. During national programme surveillance for urogenital schistosomiasis cont...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Khademvatan S,Salmanzadeh S,Foroutan-Rad M,Ghomeshi M

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flow cytometric analysis of the binucleated protozoan parasite Giardia intestinalis gave DNA histograms with a broad G1 peak and a definable G2 + M peak with twice the DNA content of G1. Twenty-four hour treatment with metronidazole arrested cell cycle progression of susceptible trophozoites in the G2 + M phase, but h...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Hoyne GF,Boreham PF,Parsons PG,Ward C,Biggs B

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The individual and combined effects of cadmium (Cd) and 3,3',4,4',5-pentachlorobiphenyl (PCB 126) on the antibody response of fish against metazoan parasites were tested. Eels experimentally infected with the swim bladder nematode Anguillicola crassus were exposed to sublethal concentrations of Cd and PCB 126. Cd was ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Sures B,Knopf K

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new model for the study of granuloma formation in the liver is described. Rats received an injection of 20,000 Schistosoma mansoni eggs in the portal vein and granuloma formation was evaluated at 3, 5 and 7 weeks post-injection. Liver collagen was estimated at the same time and serum procollagen III peptide, a marke...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Van Gool J,Van Tiel D,Doenhoff MJ,Van Vugt H

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasite transmission can be altered via the removal of parasites by the ambient communities in which parasite-host interactions take place. However, the mechanisms driving parasite removal remain poorly understood. Using marine trematode cercariae as a model system, we investigated the effects of consumer and host bo...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Welsh JE,Hempel A,Markovic M,van der Meer J,Thieltges DW

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 196 bp fragment of cloned kinetoplast (k) DNA of Leishmania infantum has been sequenced and shown to be diagnostic for this species. The DNA from 10(4)-10(5) promastigotes was routinely and specifically detected in crude dot blots of whole cells lysed in situ, and there was no cross-hybridization with 10(6) cells of...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Gramiccia M,Smith DF,Angelici MC,Ready PD,Gradoni L

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A striking feature of toxoplasmic seroconversion is the prominent and early IgM response to a low molecular weight antigen of 4-5 kDa. Two different monoclonal antibodies directed against the 4-5 kDa antigen have been generated and used to characterize this molecule. Using these monoclonal antibodies, we could demonst...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Tomavo S,Couvreur G,Leriche MA,Sadak A,Achbarou A,Fortier B,Dubremetz JF

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large database on the transmission of a stabilate of the Theileria parva Muguga stock from one breed of cattle using two stocks of Rhipicephalus appendiculatus, Muguga and Ol Pejeta was developed and analysed. Factors associated with the ticks and cattle, and the infections developing in cattle were studied in relat...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Young AS,Dolan TT,Morzaria SP,Mwakima FN,Norval RA,Scott J,Sherriff A,Gettinby G

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00