Comparative Efficacy of an Imidacloprid/Flumethrin Collar (Seresto®) and an Oral Afoxolaner Chewable (NexGard®) against Tick (Dermacentor variabilis and Amblyomma americanum) Infestations on Dogs: a Randomised Controlled Trial.

abstract：:Monosaccharides, lectins, periodate, trypsin and neuraminidase were used to analyse the process of adhesion of Giardia duodenalis trophozoites to IEC cells, an intestinal epithelial cell line. Addition of N-acetyl-glucosamine, N-acetyl-galactosamine, galactose and fucose to the interaction medium inhibited attachment ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Pegado MG,de Souza W

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection in dogs and humans with the protozoan parasite Leishmania are widespread in tropical and subtropical countries around the globe. Sand flies of the order Phlebotomus in the Old World and Lutzomyia in the New World function as the vector of this disease. In dogs, skin lesions are the most prominent signs of ca...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Mencke N,Volf P,Volfova V,Stanneck D

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study the behavior and pathogenicity of second-stage larvae of Toxocara canis were examined in different mouse strains with special emphasis on the major histocompatibility complex (MHC). Mice of the inbred strains BALB, C3H, C57BL, and DBA and the outbred strain NMRI were infected orally with 1000 seco...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Epe C,Sabel T,Schnieder T,Stoye M

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recombinant surface protein of Theileria annulata (TaSP) was used in the standardization and validation of an enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the detection of circulating antibodies against tropical theileriosis. ELISA data were expressed as the percentage positivity (PP) of the reactivity of an inte...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Bakheit MA,Schnittger L,Salih DA,Boguslawski K,Beyer D,Fadl M,Ahmed JS

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schistosomiasis japonica remains one important public health concern that cause great loss of humans' health and social-economic development in the Peoples' Republic of China. At the end of 1990s and the beginning of 2000s, there were still about 0.8 million patients and nearly 85 million people living in the epidemic...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Liu R,Dong HF,Jiang MS

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past decade, advances in proteomic and mass spectrometry techniques and the sequencing of the Plasmodium falciparum genome have led to an increasing number of studies regarding the parasite proteome. However, these studies have focused principally on parasite protein expression, neglecting parasite-induced va...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Fontaine A,Bourdon S,Belghazi M,Pophillat M,Fourquet P,Granjeaud S,Torrentino-Madamet M,Rogier C,Fusai T,Almeras L

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of the disaccharidases lactase, maltase, sucrase and trehalase were examined in gerbils during Giardia lamblia infections. In a primary infection with trophozoites, the activities of all four enzymes were reduced from day 10 post-infection (p.i.) and remained at low levels well past the elimination phas...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Mohammed SR,Faubert GM

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic echinococcosis (CE) is a widespread zoonosis. For treating single echinococcal cysts during the last decades, therapeutic puncture of the cyst, aspiration, injection of a scolicide, and re-aspiration (PAIR) has been established as a minimal-invasive alternative method to surgery. A recent review on the complica...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Richter J,Profis E,Holtfreter MC,Orhun A,Müller-Stöver I,Dedelen H,Kubitz R

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acanthamoeba is a free-living pathogenic protozoan that is distributed in different environmental reservoirs, including lakes and soil. Pathogenic Acanthamoeba can cause severe human diseases, such as blinding keratitis and granulomatous encephalitis. Therefore, it is important to understand the pathogenic relationshi...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Huang JM,Chang YT,Shih MH,Lin WC,Huang FC

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA primers were designed from the 18S rRNA sequence from the relevant digenean trematode Dicrocoelium dendriticum to evaluate a polymerase chain reaction-based diagnostic method of this parasite from its eggs in faeces of naturally and experimentally infected sheep. In order to get DNA from D. dendriticum eggs, sever...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Sandoval H,Manga-González MY,Castro JM

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this paper is to disseminate, more widely, certain historically important aspects of research by O. Wilford Olsen on hookworms (Uncinaria lucasi) in northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus) and Steller sea lions (Eumatopias jubatus) in 1951 on St. Paul Island, Alaska. Highly meaningful facets of the res...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Lyons ET

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An epidemiological and molecular survey was conducted to investigate the role of cattle in the transmission chain of cystic echinococcosis (CE) in the Campania region of southern Italy. Out of a total of 434 cattle examined for CE, 45 (10.4%) were found infected. A total of 363 cysts were collected from the infected a...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Rinaldi L,Maurelli MP,Veneziano V,Capuano F,Perugini AG,Cringoli S

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii, the agent of toxoplasmosis, is an intracellular parasite that can infect a wide range of vertebrate hosts. Toxoplasmosis causes severe damage to immunocompromised hosts and its treatment is mainly based on the combination of pyrimethamine and sulfadiazine, which causes relevant side effects primaril...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Portes JA,De Souza W

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the study, we screened a total of 399 adult sheep keds (Melophagus ovinus) for the presence of RNA and DNA specific for arboviral, bacterial, and protozoan vector-borne pathogens. All investigated keds were negative for flaviviruses, phleboviruses, bunyaviruses, Borrelia burgdorferi, Rickettsia spp., Anaplasma phag...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Rudolf I,Betášová L,Bischof V,Venclíková K,Blažejová H,Mendel J,Hubálek Z,Kosoy M

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chagas disease, caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi), although discovered more than a century ago, is still a not very well-elucidated aspect. Individuals in the chronic phase of the disease may present asymptomatic clinical form or symptomatologies related to the cardiac, digestive systems, or both (m...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Carvalho TB,Padovani CR,de Oliveira Júnior LR,Latini ACP,Kurokawa CS,Pereira PCM,Dos Santos RM

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous nematodes were found in the rectum of three fish species Synodontis ocellifer, S. nigrita, and S. schall (Mochokidae, Siluriformes) from the Gambia River and Mare Simenti, National Park Niokolo Koba, Senegal. A nematode species Raillietnema synodontisi Vassiliadès, 1973 (host S. ocellifer), is redescribed usi...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Koubková B,Barus V,Hodová I,Simková A

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The induction of protective immunity to Leishmania amazonensis was investigated by injection of parasite clones of low and medium virulence into susceptible mice. To this end, L. amazonensis were cloned by limiting dilution and the clones' virulence was evaluated by the course of infection in susceptible mice. Clones ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： da Fonseca AL,Vallochi AL,Furtado Gde C,Abrahamsohn Ide A,Lima GM

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ivermectin at single doses of 0.2-1.0 mg/kg body weight reduced the microfilarial counts of subperiodic Brugia malayi in Presbytis cristata by 59.9%-89.6% of initial counts, 4 weeks after treatment. Adult filaricidal activity was poor, live adult worms being recovered from all animals at autopsy. There was no serious ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Mak JW,Lam PL,Rain AN,Suresh K

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present work aimed at studying the possible association of HLA antigens with Entamoeba histolytica/E. dispar asymptomatic infection in a Mexican mestizo population. A case-control design was selected for evaluation of the role of genetic markers in parasite infection. For this purpose the HLA-A, HLA-B, and HLA-DR ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Valdez E,del Carmen Martínez M,Gómez A,Cedillo R,Arellano J,Pérez ME,Ramos F,Morán P,González E,Valenzuela O,Melendro EI,Ramiro M,Kretschmer R,Muñoz O,Ximénez C

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ticks spend most of their life cycle in the environment, and all tick life cycle stages are dependent on a complex combination of climate variables. Furthermore, host availability and vegetation significantly modulate the dynamics of tick populations. Tick recruitment is dependent on successful reproduction, which in ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Estrada-Peña A

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemotherapy of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) has several limitations including resistance and toxicity of the existing drugs. Downregulation of immune system further aggravates the problems. To combat this situation, leishmanicidal efficacy of already marketed standard antifungal drug, fluconazole under the approac...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Shakya N,Sane SA,Gupta S

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within livestock production, enteric diseases play an important role, since they cause severe economic losses due to mortality, growth depression, and reduction in the conversion rate. Coccidiosis caused by Eimeria spp. is a parasitic disease of high morbidity that affects various animal species, including sheep. In s...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Trejo-Huitrón G,Bautista-Gómez LG,Martínez-Castañeda JS,Romero-Núñez C,Trejo-Castro L,Espinosa-Ayala E

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gossypol, a natural polyphenolic compound, induces growth-inhibitory and antiparasitic effects in Taenia taeniaeformis metacestodes in vivo and in vitro. We investigated the uptake and localization of [3H]-gossypol in this parasite. Metacestodes were incubated in 10(-5) M [3H]-gossypol at 37 degrees C. Parasites stead...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Kulp SK,Rikihisa Y,Lin YC,Moh PP,Li PK,Gu Y

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemonchus contortus isolates were evaluated for benzimidazole (BZ) resistance or susceptibility by allele-specific PCR based on β-tubulin isotype 1 gene polymorphisms at the F167Y, E198A, and F200Y sites. Two isolates, one presumed susceptible from wild pronghorn antelope (PH) and one known to be resistant from goats...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Arafa WM,Holman PJ,Craig TM

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemosporidian blood parasites of the Plasmodium genus are the causative agents of avian malaria in many parts of the world. Despite the great diversity of Brazilian avifauna, few studies have been conducted to examine the haemosporidians of wild birds found in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, especially those kept in c...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Tostes R,Dias RJP,Martinele I,Senra MVX,D'Agosto M,Massard CL

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An overall 44% transplacental transmission rate was observed in 221 rats fed cysts of 12 Toxoplasma strains at 15 days of pregnancy, with a range of 0-90% transmission. Considerable variability in the transmission rate was seen among different groups of rats that received similar Toxoplasma inocula; this is attributed...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Freyre A,Correa O,Falcón J,Mendez J,González M,Venzal JM

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Galectin plays an important role in host-parasite interactions. In this study, we identified a novel gene encoding galectin-10 (AcGal-10) from the cDNA library of Angiostrongylus cantonensis and characterized its biological role in the parasite. Sequence and phylogeny analysis showed that AcGal-10 is related to other ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Liu LH,He HJ,Lv ZY,Wei J,Zeng X,Liang JY,Zheng HQ,Yu XB,Sun X,Wu ZD

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spermiogenesis and ultrastructure of the spermatozoon of two bothriocephalidean cestodes, Oncodiscus sauridae from the lizardfish Saurida nebulosa Valenciennes, 1850 and Senga sp. from the eel Mastacembelus armatus (Lacepède, 1800), have been studied using transmission electron microscopy. Spermiogenesis included the ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Sípková L,Levron C,Oros M,Justine JL

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mosquito repellents represent a cleaner and safer alternative for population control and reduce the diseases they carry in large areas of the world. Recently, research has been focused on repellents of natural origins, both crude essential oils and their main constituents. We have observed that, although a large numbe...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Iovinella I,Pelosi P,Conti B

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Domestic cats and other felids are definitive hosts for the zoonotic protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii. Serology is widely used in epidemiological studies conducted to estimate the proportion of domestic cats that have encountered the parasite. However, a limited number of such studies are available from some regio...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Galat M,Must K,Rissanen K,Jokelainen P

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00