The effect of temperature on times to hatching of eggs of the nematode Ostertagia circumcincta.

abstract：:Embryonic stages of various Onchocerca species have been used to stimulate resistance in CBA mice to challenge injections with the microfilariae of Onchocerca lienalis. Comparable levels of resistance to challenge (29-37% reductions) were conferred by living, freeze-killed, or sonicated organisms administered with Fre...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Carlow CK,Bianco AE

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasites have a major impact on global finfish and shellfish aquaculture, having significant effects on farm production, sustainability and economic viability. Parasite infections and impacts can, according to pathogen and context, be considered to be either unpredictable/sporadic or predictable/regular. Although bot...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Shinn AP,Pratoomyot J,Bron JE,Paladini G,Brooker EE,Brooker AJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) appearance of the brain and spinal cord in humans with neuroangiostrongyliasis (NA) due to Angiostrongylus cantonensis infection has been well reported. Equivalent studies in animals are lacking. This case series describes clinical and MRI findings in 11 dogs with presumptively or ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Wun MK,Malik R,Yu J,Chow KE,Lau M,Podadera JM,Webster N,Lee R,Šlapeta J,Davies S

更新日期：2020-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:New treatment strategies for schistosomiasis should be evaluated, since resistant strains to the only available drug, Praziquantel, have already been described. Thus, we demonstrated antiparasitic effects of ethanolic extracts of Jatropha gossypiifolia and Piper arboreum on cercariae and adult worms of Schistosoma man...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： da Silva Alves RR,Mendes Rodrigues JG,Teles-Reis A,Araújo Nogueira R,Correia Lima Licá I,Sampaio Lira MG,da Silva Alves R,Silva-Souza N,Aguiar Dos Santos Andrade TJ,Silva Miranda G

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Strongyloides ratti-infected rats, 2 peaks of egg excretion were observed; a large one with maximum egg production on days 7-8 of infection and a small more inconspicuous one around day 25. The second peak, which had been ignored in most studies, was produced by adults in the caecum and the colon. The adults were l...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kimura E,Shintoku Y,Kadosaka T,Fujiwara M,Kondo S,Itoh M

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nematode-trapping fungus Arthrobotrys oligospora traps and invades all the free-living juvenile stages of the trichostrongyle nematode Trichostrongylus colubriformis. The processes of capture and invasion of the 1st-stage juveniles are described using differential interference contrast optics and 3-D reconstructio...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Murray DS,Wharton DA

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The host recognition and invasion process of Myxobolus cerebralis actinospores (triactinomyxon, TAM) was studied on a genetic level. A small-scale in vitro assay was developed to activate a large number of TAMs simultaneously, and to monitor the host invasion in the absence of live fish. The transcriptomes of non-acti...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Eszterbauer E,Kallert DM,Grabner D,El-Matbouli M

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasite-host interactions mediated by cell surface proteins have been implicated as a critical step in infections caused by the microsporidian Nosema bombycis. Such cell surface proteins are considered as promising diagnostic markers and targets for drug development. However, little research has specifically addresse...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Zhao W,Hao Y,Wang L,Zhou Z,Li Z

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrophoresis of secretions collected from Globodera pallida revealed a smeared region between 25 and 50 kDa, and a single band of < 20 kDa. The secretions were used to raise an antiserum (LW1). Immunoblotting of parasite homogenates with LW1 differentiated G. pallida from its sibling species G. rostochiensis and re...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Duncan LH,Robertson L,Robertson WM,Kusel JR

更新日期：1997-10-01 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：:Susceptibility to oxidative stress is a well-established feature of the malarial parasite. Pharmacologists have taken advantage of this property to design highly effective pro-oxidant antimalarial drugs. Less well appreciated is the fact that nutritional manipulation of host oxidative stress status by dietary means ca...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Levander OA,Ager AL Jr

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various treatments are found to be moderately effective in managing Demodex-related diseases except tea tree oil (TTO) and terpinen-4-ol (T4O), which showed superior miticidal and anti-inflammatory effects in numerous clinical studies. Their possible effects include lowering mite counts, relieving Demodex-related symp...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Lam NSK,Long XX,Li X,Yang L,Griffin RC,Doery JC

更新日期：2020-12-01 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：:If parasitic infection is a driving force in female mate choice, then females should preferentially select parasite-free males. The role of infection on female mate choice in mammals was assessed using a 3-chambered apparatus. A female CD-1 mouse was allowed to choose between 2 tethered male mice, 1 uninfected and 1 i...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Ehman KD,Scott ME

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a laboratory model using Eimeria falciformis and E. pragensis to investigate some of the interactions in double-species infections of Eimeria. Mice were given trickle infections by oral inoculation of 100 sporulated oocysts of one species at 3 or 4 day intervals throughout the experiments and, once immunit...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Shehu K,Nowell F

更新日期：1998-11-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Trypanosoma evansi and Trypanosoma vivax are the most extensively distributed trypanosomes responsible for diseases in livestock. Western blot and indirect immunofluorescence assays revealed a high immunological cross-reaction between these two parasites. An antigen with an apparent molecular mass of 64 kDa (p64), whi...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Uzcanga G,Mendoza M,Aso PM,Bubis J

更新日期：2002-03-01 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：:Engorged Ixodes ricinus nymphs collected from sheep resident in an upland UK field site were significantly lighter than nymphs that engorged on previously tick-naïve sheep, indicating that site-resident sheep continually exposed to ticks acquired anti-tick resistance. The weights of engorged nymphs that fed on natural...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Ogden NH,Casey AN,French NP,Adams JD,Woldehiwet Z

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nematodes represent one of the most abundant and species-rich groups of animals on the planet, with parasitic species causing chronic, debilitating infections in both livestock and humans worldwide. The prevalence and success of the nematodes is a direct consequence of the exceptionally protective properties of their ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Stepek G,McCormack G,Birnie AJ,Page AP

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Longitudinal muscles in adult male Schistosoma mansoni appear to remain in almost all respects functional after tegumental disruption by Triton X-100. Responses to high K+, ouabain, low temperature, praziquantel and neurotransmitters are still present. Muscle membrane potentials remain near those of control animals an...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Depenbusch JW,Thompson DP,Pax RA,Bennett JL

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice fed 1.5 mg ochratoxin A (OTA) per kg body weight and infected with Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense were compared with trypanosome-infected placebo-fed and uninfected OTA-fed controls. Uninfected OTA-fed mice showed fever, lethargy, facial and eyelid oedemas, mild hepatitis and nephritis, and high survival. Infecte...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kibugu JK,Ngeranwa JJ,Makumi JN,Gathumbi JK,Kagira JM,Mwangi JN,Muchiri MW,Mdachi RE

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theileria annulata infects and reversibly transforms bovine leucocytes. The parasite-transformed cells are immortalized, metastatic and express a number of metalloproteinases including matrix metalloproteinase 9 which they secrete. All the metalloproteinases observed on substrate gels are inhibited by tissue inhibitor...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Adamson RE,Hall FR

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taenia cestodes were obtained from 5 different definitive host species in Kenya and 175 different samples were examined by classical morphological methods and by isoenzyme analysis using isoelectric focusing in agarose. Gels were stained for 17 different enzymes and 3 of these were used in the construction of isoenzym...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Allsopp BA,Jones A,Allsopp MT,Newton SD,Macpherson CN

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dynamic interaction of cells of the immune system with other cells, antigens and secreted factors determines the nature of an immune response. The response of individual cells is governed by the sequence of intracellular signalling events triggered following the association of cell surface molecules during cell-ce...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Goodridge HS,Harnett MM

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outcome of a parasite infection is the result of the interaction between the host and the parasite. In the system we studied, there are 3 critical stages for the outcome of infection of the (intermediate) host, the copepod Macrocyclops albidus, with the cestode Schistocephalus solidus. During the establishment pha...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： van der Veen IT,Kurtz J

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plerocercoids of the pseudophyllidean cestode Schistocephalus solidus infect the three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus, with important consequences for the biology of host fish. Techniques for culturing the parasite in vitro and generating infective stages that can be used to infect sticklebacks experimental...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Barber I,Scharsack JP

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00