Repeat region of Brugia malayi sheath protein (Shp-1) carries Dominant B epitopes recognized in filarial endemic population.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Giardia duodenalis is a widespread protozoan parasite affecting humans and many species of animals, including dogs and cats. Due to its zoonotic potential, it is important to know the frequency of this parasite in companion animals. The aim of this study was to determine current epidemiological status of G. ...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Piekara-Stępińska A,Piekarska J,Gorczykowski M,Bania J

更新日期：2020-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasitization of silkworm, Bombyx mori by invasive larva of dipteran parasitoid Exorista bombycis caused upto 20% revenue loss in sericulture. The parasitism was successful by suppressing host immune system however mechanism of immune suppression induced by E. bombycis is unknown which is unravelled here. The infesta...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Pooja M,Pradeep ANR,Hungund SP,Sagar C,Ponnuvel KM,Awasthi AK,Trivedy K

更新日期：2017-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:During July 2011, a single Cordillera striped shrew-rat (Chrotomys whiteheadi) was collected from the Philippines and its faeces examined for coccidian parasites. It harboured an eimerian that we describe here as new. Oocysts of Eimeria macarthuri sp. n. were spheroidal to subspheroidal with a bi-layered wall and meas...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： McAllister CT,Seville RS,Duszynski DW,Bush SE

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasites are ubiquitous members of biotic communities. To investigate the infective status of helminth parasites in Pelophylax nigromaculatus from Shanghai, 90 frogs were collected from July 2013 to July 2014 and examined for the presence of internal parasites. Of these, 86.67% (78/90) of frogs were infected with par...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Men Q,Han H,Zhao Q,Xia W,Dong H,Zhu S,Wang Z,Li C,Zhu X,Huang B

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Equine piroplasmosis (EP) is a hemoprotozoan tick-borne disease with worldwide distribution that is caused by Theileria equi and Babesia caballi. There are studies reporting the presence of equine piroplasmosis in Turkey but the situation in Erzurum is unknown. The aim of the current study was to determine the situati...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Guven E,Avcioglu H,Deniz A,Balkaya İ,Abay U,Yavuz Ş,Akyüz M

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In spite of the global economic significance of sheep production, little is known about the prevalence of various Sarcocystis spp. infecting the domestic sheep (Ovis aries) in Egypt. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Muscle samples were collected from 175 sheep (> 2 years) slaughtered at El-Mahalla El-Kubra abattoir, G...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： El-Morsey A,Abdo W,Sultan K,Elhawary NM,AbouZaid AA

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria is wide spread in poor world and its burden has been assessed by the enumeration of malarial parasites in blood of patients. This study was designed to find a relationship between social structure, and spread of malaria in Khyber agency. The average parasite density was 2050 parasite/μl in Khyber Agency. Due t...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Khatoon L,Jan MI,Khan IU,Ullah F,Malik SA

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Geographic information system (GIS) or Health geography is a geographical identification of the spatial variation of contagion disease and zoonosis risk in certain conditions. OBJECTIVE:Comparing the variation of environmental contamination of Toxocara spp. sands of lawns and public areas through the Geogra...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Marchioro AA,Colli CM,Ferreira ÉC,Tiyo R,Mattia S,de Souza WF,Falavigna-Guilherme AL

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Current understanding of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) depends upon the experimental model. Different species of mouse and hamster have been used as model for VL. It is already evident that the mouse model of VL is not a true reflection of the pathology of human visceral leishmaniasis (HuVL). On the other hand...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Saini S,Dube A,Sahasrabuddhe AA,Thakur CP,Joshi S,Rawat K,Rai AK

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new isosporoid coccidian species (Protozoa: Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) is reported from the southern house wren Troglodytes musculus, a very well distributed species in South and Central America. Isospora corruirae sp. nov. oocysts are subspherical to ovoidal, 24.1 × 21.4 μm, with smooth, bilayered wall. Micropyle and...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： doBomfim Lopes B,Rodrigues MB,da Silva LM,Berto BP,Luz HR,Ferreira I,Lopes CW

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Endoparasitic nematodes of six harbour porpoises Phocoena phocoena and four grey seals Halichoerus grypus, stranded at the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea in Germany in winter 2019, were analysed in order to identify nematode parasites and to compare with recent studies from the same area. METHODS:Endoparasiti...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Gabel M,Theisen S,Palm HW,Dähne M,Unger P

更新日期：2020-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Opportunistic infections such as cryptosporidiosis and cyclosporiasis are commonly encountered in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). We investigated the existence of opportunistic protozoans that significantly affect the quality of life in HIV-1 infected patients using conventional and molecular ...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Uysal HK,Adas GT,Atalik K,Altiparmak S,Akgul O,Saribas S,Gurcan M,Yuksel P,Yildirmak T,Kocazeybek B,Ziver T,Oner YA

更新日期：2017-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:It is not clear that Blastocystis remains without damage to the digestive tract or has a pathogenic effect in relation to subtypes in immunocompromised people, such as cancer patients. The present study aimed to investigate the frequency and subtype distribution of Blastocystis in cancer patients who were follo...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Mülayim S,Aykur M,Dağcı H,Dalkılıç S,Aksoy A,Kaplan M

更新日期：2021-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the best examples of rapid displacement of native species by an invader is the eradication of native Artemia salina and A. parthenogenetica in the Mediterranean by the introduced American A. franciscana. Previous studies based on sampling from limited time periods suggest that the success of the American specie...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Georgiev BB,Angelov A,Vasileva GP,Sánchez MI,Hortas F,Mutafchiev Y,Pankov P,Green AJ

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naturally Leishmania infantum infected bitches were divided into oestrogenized (n = 11) and non-oestrogenized (n = 6) groups. Vaginal secretions were collected for polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and vulval, vaginal and uterine tissues were collected for the immunohistochemical (IHQ) identification of L. infantum. Pa...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Magro AG,Assis VP,Silva LC,Tafuri WL,Silva SO,Melo MN,Valle GR

更新日期：2017-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A new species of Coronocestus Caira, Marques, Jensen, Kuchta and Ivanov, 2013 is described from Iago omanensis (Norman) from the Gulf of Oman. Coronocestus ehsanentezarii sp. nov. differs from C. musteli (Pintner, 1889) Caira, Marques, Jensen, Kuchta and Ivanov, 2013 in that its ovary is H- rather than U-shape. The ne...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Haseli M,Azad S

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tegument ultrastructure of the intestinal fluke Aphallus tubarium was studied for the first time with the use of scanning and transmission electron microscopy. New details on morphology were recorded. The ultrastructural study revealed that the tegument of A. tubarium had a syncytial organization with a distal cyt...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Antonelli L,Quilichini Y,Foata J,Marchand B

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The smokybrown cockroach Periplaneta fuliginosa has spread all over the world, and is now one of the most undesired invasive alien pests in Japan. Because cockroaches are generally infected by thelastomatid nematodes, they are being distributed around the world with their parasitic nematodes. Nothing is known about pa...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Ozawa S,Vicente CS,Sato K,Yoshiga T,Kanzaki N,Hasegawa K

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal coccidian parasites are intracellular protozoa most frequently transmitted during food-borne and water-borne infections. This group of parasites is responsible for acute diarrhoeal illnesses especially among immunocompromised patients. However, they are more frequently detected in immunocompetent individual...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Kłudkowska M,Pielok Ł,Frąckowiak K,Paul M

更新日期：2017-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic hydatidosis is a re-emerging parasitic zoonosis with worldwide distribution. The current study was carried out to investigate the possible role of rats in the epidemiology of such disease in urban and suburban areas. For this purpose, a total of 50 feral Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) were collected from urban...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Abdel-Moein KA,Hamza DA

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:There are currently nine monogenoidean species of Rhabdosynochus infecting the gill lamellae of wild and cultured centropomid fishes from tropical and subtropical waters of the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific Oceans. The purpose of the present study was to describe the morphological distinctiveness of two ...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Montero-Rodríguez M,Mendoza-Franco EF,Téllez NAL

更新日期：2020-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper characterizes the pattern of ectoparasite and endoparasite communities in an assemblage of 35 sympatric fish from different trophic levels in a tributary from the Amazon River system, northern Brazil. In detritivorous, carnivorous, omnivorous and piscivorous hosts, the species richness consisted of 82 ectop...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Baia RRJ,Florentino AC,Silva LMA,Tavares-Dias M

更新日期：2018-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Dirofilariasis caused by the filarial nematode Dirofilaria repens is mainly a disease of dogs and other carnivores. Also, humans can be accidentally infected with this parasite. The infective third-stage filariform larvae are transmitted by various species of mosquitoes. Until this day, a total of 17 human case...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Boldiš V,Ondriska F,Bošák V,Hajdúk O,Antolová D,Miterpáková M

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite their tremendous diversity and their medical and veterinary importance, details of egg ultrastructure among the digenean trematodes has been studied rather little. The available literature is spread over several decades and several species, but has not been adequately reviewed to reveal patterns of similarity ...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Conn DB,Świderski Z,Miquel J

更新日期：2018-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND METHODS:This study described the detection, prevalence and phylogeny of Anaplasma marginale in the bovine (cattle and buffaloes) and Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus tick belonged to the tribal area of coastal South Gujarat, India, by amplifying 576 bp of major surface protein (msp) 5 gene using custo...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Kumar N,Solanki JB,Varghese A,Jadav MM,Das B,Patel MD,Patel DC

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence and distribution of canine babesiosis and hepatozoonosis in the south of Romania as well as to assess if there are differences in the prevalence between regions in that area. METHODS:Blood samples from 300 dogs from the south of Romania were screened for the...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Cimpan AA,Nachum-Biala Y,Ben-Shitrit B,Miron L,Baneth G

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High performance thin-layer chromatography was used to determine the concentration of β-carotene and lutein in the whole body and digestive gland-gonad complex (DGG) of uninfected Biomphalaria glabrata snails and those infected with Schistosoma mansoni for 6 and 8 weeks. Pigments were extracted from the snails using a...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Dieterich N,Fried B,Sherma J

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cosmocerca leytensis sp. nov. (Ascaridida, Cosmocercidae) from the large intestine of Cyrtodactylus gubaot (Squamata: Gekkonidae) collected on Leyte Island, Philippines is described and illustrated. Cosmocerca leytensis sp. nov. is the 30th species assigned to the genus, the 4th from the Oriental region, and the first...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Bursey CR,Goldberg SR,Siler CD,Brown RM

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fascioliasis is an important food-borne parasitic zoonosis caused by two trematode species, Fasciola hepatica and Fasciola gigantica. The characterisation and differentiation of Fasciola populations is crucial to control the disease, given the different transmission, epidemiology and pathology characteristics of the t...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Ahasan SA,Valero MA,Chowdhury EH,Islam MT,Islam MR,Hussain Mondal MM,Peixoto RV,Berinde L,Panova M,Mas-Coma S

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Leishmaniasis, as one of the most important vector-borne and zoonotic diseases, can be seen in different forms and is more prevalent in developing countries worldwide. Due to the absence of effective strategies in its prevention, treatment, and control, investigation of effective control strategies against the ...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Namavari M,Namazi F,Asadi-Manesh R,Hosseini MH,Nazifi S,Asadpour M

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00