Maternal transfer of antibodies induced by infection with Eimeria maxima partially protects chickens against challenge with Eimeria tenella.

abstract：:Thirty-one stocks of Trypanosoma cruzi, the agent of Chagas disease, representative of the genetic variability of the 2 principal lineages, that subdivide T. cruzi, were selected on the basis of previous multilocus enzyme electrophoresis analysis using 21 loci. Analyses were performed with lower numbers of loci to exp...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Breniere SF,Barnabe C,Bosseno MF,Tibayrenc M

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Described in the present study is a major component of the cell wall of 2 of the most pathogenic parasites of molluscs, Perkinsus atlanticus and P. marinus. The component is a high molecular weight protein (233 kDa), which we have named PWP-1 (for Perkinsus wall protein-1). Western blots, using a polyclonal serum gene...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Montes JF,Durfort M,Lladó A,García-Valero J

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on the nutrition and physiology of Trichomonas vaginalis have been hampered by the lack of a defined synthetic medium in which to grow the organism. New synthetic media free of ill-defined supplements and serum which support good growth of T. vaginalis have been developed in this study. The first successful ap...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Linstead D

更新日期：1981-08-01 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：: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：:The abundance of Profilicollis botulus was monitored in eider ducks for 3 years. No significant difference in P. botulus abundance was found between eiders taken alive and those collected dead from the shore line, or between adult males and adult females. Adult male eiders had a seasonal pattern of infection. Incubati...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Thompson AB

更新日期：1985-12-01 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：:SUMMARY Leishmania are protozoan parasites spread by a sandfly insect vector and causing a spectrum of diseases collectively known as leishmaniasis. The disease is a significant health problem in many parts of the world, resulting in an estimated 1·3 million new cases and 30 000 deaths annually. Current treatment is b...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kedzierski L,Evans KJ

更新日期：2014-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the distribution of Trypanosoma cruzi Discrete Typing Units (DTUs) in domestic and peridomestic Triatoma infestans and Triatoma sordida specimens collected in a well-defined rural area in Pampa del Indio, northeastern Argentina. Microscopically-positive bugs were randomly selected with a multi-level sampli...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Maffey L,Cardinal MV,Ordóñez-Krasnowski PC,Lanati LA,Lauricella MA,Schijman AG,Gürtler RE

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the increased availability of multilocus sequence data, the lack of concordance of gene trees estimated for independent loci has focused attention on both the biological processes producing the discord and the methodologies used to estimate phylogenetic relationships. What has emerged is a suite of new analytical...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Knowles LL,Klimov PB

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasites can have a wide range of pathophysiological effects on the host. This review describes those associated with some parasites of major importance in man and animals. Haemoprotozoan diseases such as trypanosomiasis and malaria are primarily associated with anaemia. Such anaemias have a complex aetiology involvi...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Holmes PH

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acanthocephalan parasite, Polymorphus minutus, manipulates its intermediate hosts' (gammarids) behaviour, presumably to facilitate its transmission to the definitive hosts. A fundamental question is whether this capability has evolved to target gammarids in general, or specifically sympatric gammarids. We assessed...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Farahani S,Palsbøll PJ,Pen I,Komdeur J

更新日期：2020-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection by larval Echinococcus granulosus is usually characterized by tight inflammatory control. However, various degrees of chronic granulomatous inflammation are also observed, reaching a high point in infection of cattle by the most prevalent parasite strain worldwide, which is not well adapted to this host spec...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Basika T,Muñoz N,Casaravilla C,Irigoín F,Batthyány C,Bonilla M,Salinas G,Pacheco JP,Roth J,Durán R,Díaz A

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intact surface membrane vesicles were obtained and purified from the schistosomula of Schistosoma mansoni. The method of preparation of the vesicles involved treating the schistosomula in a buffered high salt medium for 1 h at 4 degrees C (Step 1), and then for 1 h at 25-37 degrees C (Step 2). Vesicles were formed fro...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kusel JR,Gazzinelli G,Colley DG,de Souza CP,Cordeiro MN

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Risk factors for the transmission of Echinococcus multilocularis to humans operate at a range of spatial scales. Over a large area, such as China, regional scale risk is correlated with variation in climatic conditions because of its effect on the spatial distribution of landscapes that can support E. multilocularis t...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Danson FM,Graham AJ,Pleydell DR,Campos-Ponce M,Giraudoux P,Craig PS

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：:Many different drug-resistant lines of rodent malaria are available as screening models. It is obligatory to screen new compounds for antimalarial activity against a series of resistant lines in order to identify a compound with potential for the treatment of multi-drug resistant (MDR) malaria infections. Instead of u...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Tripathi R,Dhawan S,Dutta GP

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bloodstream forms of Trypanosoma congolense (2 clones: ILNat3.1 and IL3000, and 4 stocks: IL2079, IL2466, IL3266 and CP-81) were continuously cultivated in vitro at 34-36 degrees C in the absence of feeder cell layers, using HMI-93 medium which was modified from Iscove's modified Dulbecco's MEM (Flow Laboratories, Irv...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Hirumi H,Hirumi K

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The respiratory chain of the procyclic stage of Trypanosoma brucei contains the standard complexes I through IV, as well as several alternative enzymes contributing to electron flow. In this work, we studied the function of an alternative NADH : ubiquinone oxidoreductase (NDH2). Depletion of target mRNA was achieved u...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Verner Z,Skodová I,Poláková S,Durišová-Benkovičová V,Horváth A,Lukeš J

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The numbers, distribution in the small intestine, sexual development and growth (dry weight) of 5-week-old Moniliformis dubius (Acanthocephala) were investigated experimentally in adult, female CFHB rats fed on theoretically isoenergetic diets containing known amounts of fructose in combination with either maize-oil f...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Crompton DW,Keymer A,Singhvi A,Nesheim MC

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of a successful vaccine depends not only on the production of the vaccine itself, but also on the design pf the vaccination programme. This involves a better understanding of the epidemiology of the disease to be controlled, the delivery system to be used and the costs involved. This review focuses on ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Bundy DA,Chan MS,Guyatt HL

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiplication of virulent and avirulent Leishmania donovani promastigotes was inhibited by brain heart infusion broth (BHI) (3.7%) supplemented with haemolysed or whole blood (2.5-10%) or heat-inactivated foetal bovine serum (HIFBS) (10-20%). Peptone, glutamine, tryptophan, purine bases, ribonucleosides, deoxyribonuc...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kar K

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An hypothesis is presented to explain the red cell lysis which accompanies an acute malarial infection, as well as the mode of action of certain schizonticidal drugs in the quinoline and acridine series. Quinine and a number of other antimalarial drugs have been found to counteract the inhibition by protein of fatty a...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Laser H,Kemp P,Miller N,Lander D,Klein R

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uptake of radioactivity labelled purine bases and nucleosides by suspensions of Trypanosoma brucei and Trypanosoma congolense in bicine buffer was determined at 37 degrees C. With T. brucei, the rate of uptake of adenosine was much greater than that of the other compounds tested, the uptake of which decreased in the o...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： James DM,Born GV

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocular, peroral, intraperitoneal, intramuscular, and subcutaneous inoculation of severe combined immunodeficient (SCID) mice with spores of the human isolate (CDC: V404) of Brachiola algerae (syn. Nosema algerae) (Phylum Microspora) revealed that the microsporidium develops in viscera of the immunodeficient mouse host...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Koudela B,Visvesvara GS,Moura H,Vávra J

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accumulation of the trypanocide isometamidium chloride (Samorin, RMB Animal Health Ltd., UK) by a range of clones of Trypanosoma congolense with varying sensitivity to the drug, was measured by methods based on the fluorescence of isometamidium. Fluorescence microscopy and flow cytometry showed a reduction in drug...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Sutherland IA,Peregrine AS,Lonsdale-Eccles JD,Holmes PH

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the pattern of infection and the inter-annual variation and individual factors affecting the infection of 2 species of nasopharyngeal bot flies, Cephenemyia auribarbis and Pharyngomyia picta (Diptera: Oestridae), in a population of Iberian red deer (Cervus elaphus hispanicus) from south central Spain (10 an...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Vicente J,Fierro Y,Martínez M,Gortázar C

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:American trypanosamiasis occurs in nature as a sylvatic cycle, where Trypanosoma cruzi interacts with wild triatomines and mammalian reservoirs, such as marsupials, rodents, armadillos and other animals. Due to difficulties in trying to isolate T. cruzi stocks from the sylvatic cycle, very few studies have been perfor...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Fernandes O,Mangia RH,Lisboa CV,Pinho AP,Morel CM,Zingales B,Campbell DA,Jansen AM

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following cloning of Leishmania (L.) amazonensis kinetoplast DNA two recombinant clones were identified: one specific for L. (L.) amazonensis and the other specific for L. (L.) amazonensis and closely related isolates. DNA sequences from these clones were compared with those of other kinetoplastids and oligonucleotide...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Eresh S,McCallum SM,Barker DC

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid elimination of the intestinal phase of Trichinella spiralis in NIH mice is associated with progressive inflammation of the intestinal tract. The non-specific effects of this inflammation were studied in mice concurrently infected with an unrelated parasite, Hymenolepis diminuta, which does not stimulate a vi...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Behnke JM,Bland PW,Wakelin D

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00