Parasite-host relationships during the development of Eimeria dispersa Tyzzer 1929, in the turkey (Meleagris gallopavo gallopavo) with a description of intestinal intra-epithelial leucocytes.

abstract：:Balb/c mice infected with the gastrointestinal nematode Heligmosomoides bakeri were fed protein sufficient (PS, 24%) or deficient (PD, 3%) diets to investigate whether diet, infection or dose of larval challenge (0, 100 or 200 larvae) influenced gut pathophysiology and inflammation. Among the PS mice, worms were more ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Tu T,Koski KG,Scott ME

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two natural human interferon alpha preparations, (nHuIFN-alpha [Cantell]) and (nHuIFN-alpha [ISI]), were used for the oral treatment of cattle experimentally infected with Theileria parva parva. In the first experiment, 8 Friesian bulls were inoculated with a 1 in 10 dilution of a sporozoite stabilate of T.p. parva (M...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Young AS,Maritim AC,Kariuki DP,Stagg DA,Wafula JM,Mutugi JJ,Cummins JM,Richards AB,Burns C

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ligand-gated chloride channels (LGCCs) are key components of the nervous system of parasitic nematodes and important targets for anthelmintics. Here, we describe the isolation and characterization of a novel member of the LGCC gene family (HcLGCC1) from the parasitic nematode Haemonchus contortus. Sequence analysis re...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Forrester SG,Siddiqui SZ

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasites of the genera Plasmodium and Haemoproteus (Apicomplexa: Haemosporida) are a diverse group of pathogens that infect birds nearly worldwide. Despite their ubiquity, the ecological and evolutionary factors that shape the diversity and distribution of these protozoan parasites among avian communities and geograp...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Fecchio A,Svensson-Coelho M,Bell J,Ellis VA,Medeiros MC,Trisos CH,Blake JG,Loiselle BA,Tobias JA,Fanti R,Coffey ED,DE Faria IP,Pinho JB,Felix G,Braga EM,Anciães M,Tkach V,Bates J,Witt C,Weckstein JD,Ricklefs RE,

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the component community of lung-worms of the harbour porpoise, attempting to establish the relative importance of ecological and evolutionary factors on its development. The lungs of 64 porpoises by-caught in Norwegian waters were examined for helminths. Three pseudaliid species were detected. The porpoises...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Balbuena JA,Aspholm PE,Andersen KI,Bjørge A

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monensin (Mon) is an anticoccidial polyether ionophore widely used to control coccidiosis. The extensive use of polyether ionophores on poultry farms resulted in widespread resistance, but the underlying resistance mechanisms are unknown in detail. For analysing the mode of action by which resistance against polyether...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Thabet A,Schmidt J,Baumann S,Honscha W,VON Bergen M,Daugschies A,Bangoura B

更新日期：2018-03-01 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：: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：:A beta-1,3-glucan-binding lectin from the penetration glands of Diplostomum pseudospathaceum cercariae was isolated by affinity chromatography using yeast glucan and curdlan as affinity matrices. Further purification to homogeneity was performed by cation-exchange chromatography. The protein migrated as a double band ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Mikes L,Man P

更新日期：2003-07-01 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：: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：:The phylogenetic relationship of 5 genera, i.e. Diplozoon Nordmann, 1832, Paradiplozoon Achmerov, 1974, Inustiatus Khotenovsky, 1978, Sindiplozoon Khotenovsky, 1981, and Eudiplozoon Khotenovsky, 1985 in the subfamily Diplozoinae Palombi, 1949 (Monogenea, Polyopisthocotylea) was inferred from rDNA ITS-2 region using ne...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Gao Q,X Chen M,Yao WJ,Gao Y,Song Y,Wang GT,Wang MX,Nie P

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The population of malaria-causing parasites is characterized by great genetic diversity. Knowledge of the polymorphism generation mechanism is a central issue for developing effective vaccines against malaria and understanding the parasite population structure. Plasmodium vivax genetic diversity has been explained in ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Martinez P,Suarez CF,Cardenas PP,Patarroyo MA

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the mechanism of action and compared the anthelmintic efficacy of cysteine proteinases from papaya, pineapple, fig, kiwi fruit and Egyptian milkweed in vitro using the rodent gastrointestinal nematode Heligmosomoides polygyrus. Within a 2 h incubation period, all the cysteine proteinases, with the exceptio...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Stepek G,Buttle DJ,Duce IR,Lowe A,Behnke JM

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species composition of wild reservoir hosts can influence the transmission and maintenance of multi-host vector borne pathogens. The 'pace of life' hypothesis proposes that the life history strategy of reservoir hosts can influence pathogen transmission of vector borne generalist pathogens. We use empirical data to pa...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Erazo D,Cordovez J,Cabrera C,Calzada JE,Saldaña A,Gottdenker NL

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bat flies are obligate ectoparasites of bats and it has been hypothesized that they may be involved in the transmission of Bartonella species between bats. A survey was conducted to identify whether Cyclopodia greefi greefi (Diptera: Nycteribiidae) collected from Ghana and 2 islands in the Gulf of Guinea harbour Barto...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Billeter SA,Hayman DT,Peel AJ,Baker K,Wood JL,Cunningham A,Suu-Ire R,Dittmar K,Kosoy MY

更新日期：2012-03-01 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：:IgA and IgE activity against Teladorsagia circumcincta was investigated in a flock of Texel lambs following natural, mixed nematode infection among lambs. The distribution of IgA activity was similar to a gamma distribution whereas IgE activity was different. Box-Cox analysis demonstrated that X0.25 was a suitable tra...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Murphy L,Eckersall PD,Bishop SC,Pettit JJ,Huntley JF,Burchmore R,Stear MJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditionally, the family Campulidae has been associated either with the family Fasciolidae, parasites of ruminants, or the Acanthocolpidae, parasites of fishes, based on morphological similarities. Since morphology does not seem to resolve clearly the problem of the relationships of campulids, we have used the sequen...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Fernandez M,Littlewood DT,Latorre A,Raga JA,Rollinson D

更新日期：1998-10-01 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：:A 186 bp Echinococcus granulosus-specific repetitive element, TREg, was used to assess genetic variation between strains. In G7 genotype (pig strain) it has the characteristics of a satellite DNA element with a copy number of 23000 per haploid genome. Analysis, by sequencing of TREg monomers, showed a great degree of ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Rosenzvit MC,Canova SG,Kamenetzky L,Guarnera EA

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adults of the porocephalid pentastomid Porocephalus crotali infect the lung of rattlesnake definitive hosts and larvae develop in rat intermediate hosts. In the latter, nymphs encyst within a variety of tissue sites (commonly abdominal fat bodies and lungs) and each becomes the focus of an eosinophilic granuloma. From...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： McHardy P,Riley J,Huntley JF

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the low informative value of available morphological characters, cytogenetic and molecular methods, based on rDNA sequencing, were used to characterize adult and larval stages of Phyllodistomum spp. Species studied have 18 chromosomes with comparable absolute and relative lengths. Conventional Giemsa staining a...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Petkeviciŭte R,Stunzenas V,Staneviciŭte G

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparison has been made of the interactions between passively transferred and actively acquired immunity in regulating populations of Taenia hydatigena and T. ovis. When ewes were grazed prior to parturition under a high infection pressure, immunity was transferred to their offspring for up to 8 weeks. A qualitativ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Gemmell MA,Lawson JR,Roberts MG,Griffin JF

更新日期：1990-08-01 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：: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：:Genome sequencing has greatly contributed to our understanding of parasitic protozoa. This is particularly the case for Cryptosporidium species (phylum Apicomplexa) which are difficult to propagate. Because of their polymorphic nature, simple sequence repeats have been used extensively as genotypic markers to differen...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Widmer G

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of resistance in mice to reinfection with Schistosoma mansoni was recorded during an early chronic infection, and compared with hepatic portal pathological and vascular changes. The latter were assessed using a microsphere injection technique. The degree of acquired resistance was directly dependent on...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： McHugh SM,Coulson PS,Wilson RA

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant ribosomal DNA sequences were amplified by PCR and used as probes to perform a fingerprint analysis of total DNA from different Entamoeba histolytica isolates. RFLPs obtained with one of the probes, R-1, support previous proposals that pathogenic and non-pathogenic E. histolytica are closely related, yet ge...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Cruz-Reyes JA,Spice WM,Rehman T,Gisborne E,Ackers JP

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To compare the structures of natural and re-established populations of Ascaris in humans, universal (mass) chemotherapy was carried out at the beginning and the end of the study year using pyrantel pamoate. Worms expelled within 48 h of treatment were collected, their sex determined, and measurements made of length, w...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Peng W,Cui X,Zhou X

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00