Quantitative modelling and prediction of development times of the free-living stages of Ostertagia ostertagi under controlled and field conditions.

abstract：:The pre-feeding and feeding periods of larvae, nymphs and adults of Rhipicephalus appendiculatus on rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) were investigated. Larvae and nymphs required at least 8-9 days after hatching and moulting respectively before they could attach and start feeding, while adults required at least 6-9 day...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Tukahirwa EM

更新日期：1976-02-01 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：:Cells of Leishmania donovani in co-culture with Trypanosoma brucei, were severely affected in their growth, resulting in swelling and subsequent lysis. Similar effects were also observed when Crithidia luciliae or Phytomonas sp. were co-cultured with T. brucei. Direct contact between the cells under investigation and ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Coppens I,Ter Kuile BH,Opperdoes FR

更新日期：1992-12-01 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：:Early in the history of schistosomiasis research, children under 5 years of age were known to be infected. Although this problem was recognized over 100 years ago, insufficient action has been taken to address this issue. Under current policy, such infected children only receive their first antiparasitic treatment (pr...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Bustinduy AL,Wright S,Joekes EC,Kabatereine NB,Reinhard-Rupp J,King CH,Stothard JR

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequence of appearance of specific lytic activity against more than 20 variable antigen types (VATs) of Trypanosoma vivax in the serum of 27 animals belonging to 5 species has been examined. For each host species there was a characteristic course of infection, with differences in height and duration of parasitaemi...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Barry JD

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The free radical nitric oxide (NO) is a neuronal messenger which is synthesized from L-arginine and O2 by nitric oxide synthase (NOS). In the synthesis NO and L-citrulline are produced in a stoichiometric 1:1 relation. The activity of NOS was analysed in homogenates of the rat tapeworm Hymenolepis diminuta by measurin...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Terenina NB,Onufriev MV,Gulyaeva NV,Lindholm AM,Gustafsson MK

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Common bird species were screened during May and June 2007 on Barbados for haemosporidian parasites (Haemosporida) of the genera Haemoproteus and Plasmodium to determine whether the low parasite diversity reported in previous studies might have reflected limited sampling. PCR screening and DNA sequencing revealed a si...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Maria L,Svensson E,Ricklefs RE

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first rigorous proof applicable to the migration pathway of an infective juvenile macroparasite inside its host is presented. Third-stage larvae of a homogonic strain of Strongyloides ratti applied in exact doses of less than 20 to the skin of the flank of young rats were recovered 16-40 h later in the naso-fronta...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Tindall NR,Wilson PA

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The period 1875-1925 was remarkable in the history of parasitology mainly for the elucidation of the life cycles of parasites causing important parasitic diseases and the incrimination of vectors in their transmission. These discoveries were made by a small number of scientists working in the tropics a number of whom ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Cox FEG

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 4-aminoquinolines chloroquine (CQ) and amodiaquine (AM) were used to treat Gambian children with uncomplicated falciparum malaria in a randomized drug trial. Blood samples were taken immediately before treatment (day 0), and at day 7 and day 28 after treatment. Samples from those parasitologically positive at day ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Duraisingh MT,Drakeley CJ,Muller O,Bailey R,Snounou G,Targett GA,Greenwood BM,Warhurst DC

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blastocystis spp. is the most frequent infectious unicellular, luminal parasite in all species of animals and humans. It has been linked to diarrhoea and irritable bowel syndrome. Saccharomyces boulardii (Sb) is a widely used probiotic that previously showed efficacy against several intestinal pathogens. The aim of th...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Méabed EMH,Abdelhafez DN,Abdelaliem YF

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A collection of stocks of Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense isolated in Kenya have been examined for electrophoretic variation in 20 enzymes. The results obtained have been analysed in order to determine whether these trypanosomes are diploid and undergo mating and to determine the genetic distance between T. b. rhodesie...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Tait A,Barry JD,Wink R,Sanderson A,Crowe JS

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Responses to Taenia taeniaeformis infection were studied in mice with severe combined immunodeficiency (scid), which lack functional T and B lymphocytes. In the early phase of infection, accumulation of polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PML) occurred around the larvae in the liver of scid mice and their immunocompetent co...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Ishiwata K,Oku Y,Ito M,Kamiya M

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a zoonotic parasitic diseases caused by a cestode parasite known as Echinococcus multilocularis. The parasite has a wildlife cycle with definitive hosts (foxes) and small mammals as intermediate hosts (rodents) while humans are the accidental hosts. Parasite infection pressure relation ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Khan A,Ahmed H,Sohail A,Alam F,Simsek S

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichomonas vaginalis induces cellular damage to the host cells (cytotoxicity) through the proteolytic activity of multiple proteinases of the cysteine type (CPs). Some CPs are modulated by environmental factors such as iron, zinc, polyamines, etc. Thus, the goal of this study was to assess the effect of glucose on T....

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Miranda-Ozuna JFT,Rivera-Rivas LA,Cárdenas-Guerra RE,Hernández-García MS,Rodríguez-Cruz S,González-Robles A,Chavez-Munguía B,Arroyo R

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is suspected that host-parasite interactions are influenced by climatic oscillations such as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). However, the effects of climatic oscillations on host-parasite interactions have never been investigated. A long-term (1982-1999) dataset of the host snail Lymnaea stagnalis and tremato...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Doi H,Yurlova NI

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmania donovani causes visceral disease (kala-azar), a major health problem throughout the tropics with 500 000 new cases every year. Leishmania differentiates from the promastigote to the amastigote form to establish infection in a mammalian host. To understand the process of differentiation, we assessed the glob...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Srividya G,Duncan R,Sharma P,Raju BV,Nakhasi HL,Salotra P

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：:Oocysts of Cryptosporidium parvum showed relatively low levels of SOD activity. The SOD which had a pI of 4.8 and an approximate molecular weight of 35 kDa appeared to be iron dependent. Catalase, glutathione transferase, glutathione reductase and glutathione peroxidase activity could not be detected, nor could trypan...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Entrala E,Mascaro C,Barrett J

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cercariae of the bird schistosome Trichobilharzia regenti and of the human schistosome Schistosoma mansoni employ proteases to invade the skin of their definitive hosts. To investigate whether a similar proteolytic mechanism is used by both species, cercarial extracts of T. regenti and S. mansoni were biochemically ch...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kasný M,Mikes L,Dalton JP,Mountford AP,Horák P

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review, we envisage the host environment, not as a hostile one, since the schistosome thrives there, but as one in which the relationship between the two organisms consists of constant communication, through signalling mechanisms involving sense organs, surface glycocalyx, surface membrane and internal organs ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kusel JR,Al-Adhami BH,Doenhoff MJ

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

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：:The interactions in vivo between Plasmodium berghei sporozoites and Kupffer cells in rat livers were studied by transmission electron microscopy. By 10 and 15 min after inoculation, sporozoites were both free in the liver sinusoids and inside endocytotic vacuoles of the Kupffer cells. The latter cells were very active...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Meis JF,Verhave JP,Jap PH,Meuwissen JH

更新日期：1983-04-01 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 evolution of host specificity and the potential trade-off between being a generalist and a specialist are central issues in the evolutionary ecology of parasites. Different species of parasites or even different populations of the same species often show different degrees of host specificity. However, less is know...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Leung TL,Poulin R

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) has a crucial role for host defence against parasite infection. It is not clear, however, how IFN-gamma affects the parasite-infected host cells. The effect of IFN-gamma on Neospora caninum-infected cells was investigated in murine fibroblasts and canine kidney cells in vitro. In the prese...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Nishikawa Y,Mishima M,Nagasawa H,Igarashi I,Fujisaki K,Otsuka H,Mikami T

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute Chagas disease outbreaks are related to the consumption of food or drink contaminated by triatomine feces, thus making oral infection an important route of transmission. Both vector-borne and oral infections trigger important cardiac manifestations in the host that are related to a dysregulated immune response. ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kuehn CC,Oliveira LG,Miranda MA,Prado JC

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recombinant baculovirus-expressed hybrid protein containing epitopes for the C-terminal fragment of the Plasmodium falciparum precursor to the major merozoite surface antigens (PMMSA) and the tetrapeptide repeats of the circumsporozoite protein (CSP) was assessed for its immunogenicity. Murine MHC-II restriction of ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Lockyer MJ,Cooper H,Tite J,Rowan W,Crowe JS

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Avian malaria is a vector transmitted disease caused by Plasmodium and recent studies suggest that variation in its prevalence across avian hosts is correlated with a variety of ecological traits. Here we examine the relationship between prevalence and diversity of Plasmodium lineages in southeastern Amazonia and: (1)...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Fecchio A,Ellis VA,Bell JA,Andretti CB,D'Horta FM,Silva AM,Tkach VV,Weckstein JD

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00