Purification of an agglutinin from the haemolymph of the snail Bulinus nasutus and demonstration of related proteins in other Bulinus spp.

abstract：:Toxoplasmosis is largely present in rural areas but its spatial distribution in this environment remains poorly known. In particular, it is unclear if areas of high density of cats, the only hosts excreting Toxoplasma gondii, constitute foci of high prevalence. To improve our understanding of the spatial distribution ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Gotteland C,Chaval Y,Villena I,Galan M,Geers R,Aubert D,Poulle ML,Charbonnel N,Gilot-Fromont E

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present observational and experimental evidence that cycles of the Lyme disease spirochaete, Borrelia burgdorferi s.l., can be maintained by sheep in the virtual absence of alternative hosts. A 2-year field study in upland moorland habitats of northwest UK established that sheep feed up to 80% of larval, > 99% of n...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Ogden NH,Nuttall PA,Randolph SE

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method has been devised to show that malaria parasites can be detected serologically in infected blood with a high degree of sensitivity. Using a murine malaria model, parasites were demonstrated in a solid-phase radio-immunoassay which measured antibody-binding inhibition. Lysed red blood cells (r.b.c.) were incuba...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Mackey L,Perrin L,Leemans E,Lambert PH

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strongyloides ratti is a parasitic nematode of rats. The host immune response against S. ratti affects the development of its free-living generation, favouring the development of free-living adult males and females at the expense of directly developing, infective 3rd-stage larvae. However, how the host immune response...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Crook M,Viney ME

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies of the forces behind the diversification of parasite assemblages have shed light on many aspects of parasite biodiversity. By using only parasite species richness as their measure of diversity, however, previous investigations have ignored the relatedness among parasite species and the taxonomic structu...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Luque JL,Mouillot D,Poulin R

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Potential mechanisms of immunoregulation have been investigated for the capacity to generate heterogeneity in the outcome of infection with helminth parasites. We have developed a mathematical model of the interaction between T cell and parasite populations, based on the assumption that activation of a Th1 CD4+ T cell...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Schweitzer AN,Anderson RM

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sex ratio of adult worms has been observed biased towards males in Schistosoma mansoni under natural conditions. The origin of this bias is unknown. This paper determines whether males are more infective than females under controlled experimental bisexual conditions, and hence if the sex ratio is male-biased as a ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Boissier J,Moné H

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to shared characteristics with snail haemocytes, the Biomphalaria glabrata embryonic (Bge) cell line has been used as a model in vitro system for the study of snail-trematode interactions. In this study, Bge cells were used to characterize the adherence of snail host cells to schistosome primary sporocysts, and to...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Castillo MG,Yoshino TP

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A field trial was conducted to evaluate the potential of the nematode-destroying fungus Duddingtonia flagrans to control free-living stages of horse strongyles. In late Spring 2 groups of horses (yearlings) with mixed infections of strongyles were allowed to contaminate 2 equal-sized pastures. One of the groups (F) re...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Larsen M,Nansen P,Grøndahl C,Thamsborg SM,Grønvold J,Wolstrup J,Henriksen SA,Monrad J

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blastocystis SSU-rDNA sequence data from 317 captive and free-living non-human primates (NHPs) representing 30 genera of apes, Old and New World (OW and NW) monkeys and prosimians were analysed to investigate subtype (ST) and allele distribution among hosts. Excluding 20 mixed ST infections, 27% of the sequences belon...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Alfellani MA,Jacob AS,Perea NO,Krecek RC,Taner-Mulla D,Verweij JJ,Levecke B,Tannich E,Clark CG,Stensvold CR

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A one-year study of gastro-intestinal parasitism in a free-ranging population of maras at Whipsnade Wild Animal Park, UK, revealed a strong relationship between membership of social units and both intensity and prevalence of infection. The mara, a hystricomorph rodent from southern Argentina, has a social organization...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Porteous IS,Pankhurst SJ

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The host-parasite relationship is exquisitely specific. In exploiting the host niche, a variety of helminth parasites have been shown to directly manipulate their hosts' immune responses. We assessed the ability of a whole-worm extract of Hymenolepis diminuta to modulate immune cell activation. Immune cells isolated f...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Wang A,McKay DM

更新日期：2005-05-01 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：:Sex ratio theory posits that the adaptive proportion of male to female gametocytes of a malaria parasite within the vertebrate host depends on the degree of inbreeding within the vector. Gametocyte sex ratio could be phenotypically flexible, being altered based on the infection's clonal diversity, and thus likely inbr...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Osgood SM,Schall JJ

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was conducted to quantify the association between meteorological variables and incidence of Plasmodium falciparum in areas with unstable malaria transmission in Ethiopia. We used morbidity data pertaining to microscopically confirmed cases reported from 35 sites throughout Ethiopia over a period of approxim...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Abeku TA,De Vlas SJ,Borsboom GJ,Tadege A,Gebreyesus Y,Gebreyohannes H,Alamirew D,Seifu A,Nagelkerke NJ,Habbema JD

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of parasites as biological tags to discriminate among marine fish stocks has become a widely accepted method in fisheries management. Here, we first link this approach to its unstated ecological foundation, the decay in the similarity of the species composition of assemblages as a function of increasing distan...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Poulin R,Kamiya T

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidemiological and ecological processes which govern the success of multiple-species co-infections are as yet unresolved. Here we investigated prior versus late residency within hosts, meaning which parasite contacts the host first, to determine if the outcomes of intra-host competition are altered. We infected a...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Lohr JN,Yin M,Wolinska J

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies of mating interactions between schistosome species from different evolutionary lineages in mice showed that mating is not random: heterospecific pairs form but, given the choice, the preference is for homospecific partners. Mating competition and change of mate were also demonstrated. Schistosoma mans...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Cosgrove CL,Southgate VR

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:cDNA-AFLP (cDNA-Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism)-based strategy has been used to identify levamisole (LEV) resistance markers in the nematode Haemonchus contortus. Transcript profiles of adult nematodes from two LEV-resistant and two susceptible isolates were compared. Among the 17 280 transcript-derived fragme...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Neveu C,Charvet C,Fauvin A,Cortet J,Castagnone-Sereno P,Cabaret J

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The group of haemosporidian parasites is of general interest to basic and applied science, since several species infect mammals, leading to malaria and associated disease symptoms. Although the great majority of haemosporidian parasites appear in bird hosts, as in the case of Leucocytozoon buteonis, there is little ge...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Chakarov N,Greiner JF,Hauser S,Schuetzmann D,Krüger O,Boerner M,Wıdera D

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diversity and prevalence of malaria parasites of the genera Plasmodium and Haemoproteus were determined in the globally-threatened Aquatic Warbler Acrocephalus paludicola. Birds were sampled during migration in Portugal and at the wintering quarters in Senegal and parasites were detected using molecular methods. O...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Neto JM,Pérez-Rodríguez A,Haase M,Flade M,Bensch S

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an interconnected world, the international pet trade on wild animals is becoming increasingly important. As a consequence, non-native parasite species are introduced, which affect the health of wildlife and contribute to the loss of biodiversity. Because the investigation of parasite diversity within vulnerable hos...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Héritier L,Verneau O,Breuil G,Meistertzheim AL

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunological and structural changes in the thymus and pronephros of Cyprinus carpio infected with the blood fluke, Sanguinicola inermis for 30 days, and exposed to 0.5 mg NH4+/1 for 48 and 168 h were investigated. Ultrastructural observations revealed cell disruption and highly vacuolated cytoplasm in the thymus. Of ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Schuwerack PM,Lewis JW,Hoole D,Morley NJ

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Costa Rica is near malaria elimination. This achievement has followed shifts in malaria health policy. Here, we evaluate the impacts that different health policies have had on malaria transmission in Costa Rica from 1913 to 2018. We identified regime shifts and used regression models to measure the impact of different...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Chaves LF,Ramírez Rojas M,Prado M,Garcés JL,Salas Peraza D,Marín Rodríguez R

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of dietary urea supplementation and of a 10-week trickle infection regime, simulating chronic exposure to Haemonchus contortus, on the zymogenic population of the abomasa of Hampshire Down lambs was examined. At necropsy a variety of parameters including plasma pepsinogen concentration, the wet weights of ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Scott I,Stear MJ,Irvine J,Dick A,Wallace DS,McKellar QA

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies against variable antigens expressed on the surface of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes are believed to be important for protection against malaria. A target for these antibodies is the P. falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1, PfEMP1, which is encoded by around 50 var genes and undergoes clon...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Giha HA,Staalsoe T,Dodoo D,Elhassan IM,Roper C,Satti GM,Arnot DE,Hviid L,Theander TG

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glycogen stores of adult Schistosoma mansoni worms could be labelled by incubation of the worms, after an initial reduction of their glycogen content, in the presence of [6-14C]glucose. Subsequent breakdown of the labelled glycogen by the parasite revealed that glycogen was degraded to lactate and carbon dioxide. ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Tielens AG,Celik C,Van den Heuvel JM,Elfring RH,Van den Bergh SG

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This cross-sectional study aimed to determine the prevalence and risk factors of S. stercoralis infection among 1142 Orang Asli primary schoolchildren in six different states of Peninsular Malaysia. Fecal samples were examined using direct smear, formalin-ether sedimentation (FES), agar plate culture (APC) and PCR tec...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Al-Mekhlafi HM,Nasr NA,Lim YAL,Elyana FN,Sady H,Atroosh WM,Dawaki S,Anuar TS,Noordin R,Mahmud R

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transmission from one host to another constitutes a challenging obstacle for parasites and is a key determinant of their fitness. Due to their complex life histories involving several different hosts, the free-living dispersal stages (cercariae) of digenean trematodes show a huge diversity in morphology and behavi...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Selbach C,Poulin R

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By means of conventional light microscopical and counting procedures, estimations have been made of the average number and size of ovarian balls from unfertilized and fertilized female Moniliformis dubius. The observations were made on worms recovered from experimental primary infections lasting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 11, ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Crompton DW,Arnold S

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00