Resistance to Onchocerca lienalis microfilariae in mice conferred by egg antigens of homologous and heterologous Onchocerca species.

abstract：:The levels of superoxide dismutase (SOD) were determined in detergent-soluble, somatic and excretion-secretion (E-S) preparations from adult Fasciola hepatica using the xanthine oxidase system and visualized in substrate gels. Compared to detergent-soluble and somatic extracts, E-S products showed the highest SOD acti...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Piacenza L,Radi R,Goñi F,Carmona C

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strongyloidiasis is frequently asymptomatic and diagnosis of latent infection is difficult due to limitations of current parasitological and serological methods. This study aimed to verify the use of conventional polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay for molecular diagnosis of Strongyloides stercoralis infection. Fres...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Sitta RB,Malta FM,Pinho JR,Chieffi PP,Gryschek RC,Paula FM

更新日期：2014-04-01 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：:Between December 2007 and March 2009, small mammals were captured in 6 Atlantic Forest patches in Brazil. We assessed tick-host associations and whether they differ among forest strata, sites, seasons, and host age classes or between sexes. Moreover, we assessed the exposure of animals to Rickettsia spp. In total, 432...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Dantas-Torres F,Aléssio FM,Siqueira DB,Mauffrey JF,Marvulo MF,Martins TF,Moraes-Filho J,Camargo MC,D'Auria SR,Labruna MB,Silva JC

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A dipstick dot ELISA for detection of Taenia-specific coproantigens was developed. The test was based on a sandwich ELISA using antibodies raised against adult Taenia solium. Antibodies were absorbed to nitrocellulose paper previously adhered to acetate plastic to form dipsticks. Once blocked with 5% skimmed milk and ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Allan JC,Mencos F,Garcia-Noval J,Sarti E,Flisser A,Wang Y,Liu D,Craig PS

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the molar content of guanine + cytosine (GC content) of DNA of the filarial nematode (Brugia malayi, Brugia pahangi and Dirofilaria imitis) and of the free-living soil nematodes Caenorhabditis elegans and have analysed the DNA for the presence of methylcytosine. Two independent methods, thermal dena...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Rothstein N,Stoller TJ,Rajan TV

更新日期：1988-08-01 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

abstract：:Cryptosporidium parvum is a zoonotic protozoan parasite that mainly affects the ileum of humans and livestock, with the potential to cause severe enteric disease. We describe the complete life cycle of C. parvum in an in vitro system. Infected cultures of the human ileocecal epithelial cell line (HCT-8) were observed ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Borowski H,Thompson RC,Armstrong T,Clode PL

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When eggs of the monogenean Dictyocotyle coeliaca, a parasite from the body cavity of Raja naevus, are incubated in alternating 12 h periods of light and darkness at 12 degrees C the marginal hooklets appear between 75 and 90 days after collecting the eggs from the host's body cavity and hatching begins after about 10...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kearn GC

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 30-h in vitro susceptibility test of Plasmodium falciparum wild isolates to artemisinin, chloroquine, sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine and mefloquine was performed in Kibaha, Tanzania. A sigmoid Emax model was fitted to all data for each isolate and drug combination. Artemisinin and mefloquine exhibited 100% growth inhibit...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Alin MH

更新日期：1997-06-01 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：:We investigated changes in the behaviour of Stagnicola elodes associated with the emergence of Plagiorchis elegans cercariae. Within 15 min of the reduction in light intensity, which triggered the onset of cercarial emergence, infected snails moved to the top of the water column and remained there for 2-3 h. Seventy-n...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Lowenberger CA,Rau ME

更新日期：1994-07-01 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：:A study carried out on a sheep farm examined whether Toxoplasma gondii foetal infection and associated abortion occur in successive lambings. We identified 29 ewes that gave birth to lambs on at least 2 successive years over our study period, 2000-2003. Tissue samples from the progeny of these ewes were analysed by PC...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Morley EK,Williams RH,Hughes JM,Thomasson D,Terry RS,Duncanson P,Smith JE,Hide G

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro effects of 4 arylimidamides (DB811, DB786, DB750 and DB766) against the proliferative tachyzoite stage of the apicomplexan parasite Besnoitia besnoiti were investigated. These four compounds had been shown earlier to exhibit in vitro activities in the nanomolar range against the related apicomplexans Neos...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Cortes HC,Muller N,Boykin D,Stephens CE,Hemphill A

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an experiment to study the infectivity, growth and virulence of Schistocephalus solidus in their first intermediate host, copepods of the species Macrocyclops albidus were kept singly and exposed to up to 9 coracidia. Eleven or 14 days post-infection (p.i.) the presence and growth of the cestode larvae relative to ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Wedekind C

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protozoan parasites of the genus Cryptosporidium infect all vertebrate groups and display some host specificity in their infections. It is therefore possible to assume that Cryptosporidium parasites evolved intimately aside with vertebrate lineages. Here we propose a scenario of Cryptosporidium-Vertebrata coevolution ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Garcia-R JC,Hayman DT

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amitochondriate parasitic protist Trichomonas vaginalis can utilize either glucose or maltose as carbon and energy source. The mechanisms of maltose utilization were explored with uptake experiments using radio-isotope labelled maltose in combination with the silicone-oil centrifugation technique and enzymatic ass...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： ter Kuile BH,Müller M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The induction of schistosomulicidal activity of peritoneal macrophages by concanavalin A-stimulated supernatants from long-term T-cell clones and by interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) was investigated in detail. Optimal conditions of in vitro macrophage activation by T-cell clone supernatants were established. Macrophages f...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kubelka CF,Ruppel A,Krammer PH,Gemsa D

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taenia crassiceps is a cestode parasite of wild and domestic animals that rarely affects humans; it has been widely used as an experimental model. The asexual proliferation by budding is a useful attribute of T. crassiceps cysticerci, which allows the various strains to be maintained indefinitely in the peritoneal cav...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Willms K,Zurabian R

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High levels of molecular diversity were identified in mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase (cox1) gene sequences of Schistosoma turkestanicum from Hungary. These cox1 sequences were all specific to Hungary which contrasted with the low levels of diversity seen in the nuclear internal transcribed spacer region (ITS) sequ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Lawton SP,Bowen LI,Emery AM,Majoros G

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The behaviour and development of Elasmosoma sp., near pergandei Ashm. (Neoneurinae: Braconidae: Hymenoptera), a parasite of the ant, Formica obscuriventris clivia Creighton, was studied in a coastal sand dune habitat in central Oregon over a 2-year period. Female wasps oviposited into the abdomen of major worker ants ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Poinar G Jr

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reproductive effort of Lepeophtheirus pectoralis (Müller O. F., 1776), a caligid copepod, which is commonly found infecting the European flounder, Platichthys flesus (Linnaeus, 1758), is studied in detail for the first time. Seasonal variation in body dimensions and reproductive effort are analysed. Data for 120 o...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Frade DG,Santos MJ,Cavaleiro FI

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii has a unique enzyme, a NTPase, which has a wide specificity toward NTP. In the present study, we produced a monoclonal antibody (IgG1, 6C6) against the enzyme which could recognize NTPase isozymes among several strains of T. gondii. Three avirulent strains of T. gondii, ME49, Beverley and Nakayama, w...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kikuchi T,Furuta T,Kojima S

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：:Patterns of genetic subdivision in parasite populations can provide important insights into transmission processes and complement information obtained using traditional epidemiological techniques. We describe mitochondrial sequence variation in 265 Ascaris collected from 62 individual hosts (humans and pigs) from 35 h...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Anderson TJ,Romero-Abal ME,Jaenike J

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of fever among infants in the village of Idete in the Morogoro region of Tanzania was analyzed in relation to densities of Plasmodium falciparum parasites in the peripheral blood. Parasite densities in both fever cases and in asymptomatic infants, were compared and a Bayesian non-parametric mixture decom...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Vounatsou P,Smith T,Kitua AY,Alonso PL,Tanner M

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Th2-biased inflammation with eosinophilia and IgE production is a hallmark of helminth infections. It is pronounced in hyperreactive onchocerciasis patients ('sowda' or 'local form'), who efficiently kill microfilariae resulting in severe dermatitis and lymphadenitis. In contrast, hyporeactive patients ('generalised f...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Korten S,Hoerauf A,Kaifi JT,Büttner DW

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycans at the surface of adult Schistosoma mansoni were investigated with gold-labelled lectins. The fragile complex of the glycans with the outer membranes could be preserved for electron microscopy by avoiding extensive pre-fixation with aldehydes and by introducing osmium-ferrocyanide as a membrane fixative. Male ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Schmidt J

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Host-parasite interactions are shaped by the co-evolutionary arms race of parasite virulence, transmission success as well as host resistance and recovery. The virulence and fitness of parasites may depend on host condition, which is mediated, for instance, by host energy constraints. Here, we investigated to what ext...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Coors A,De Meester L

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00