Efficacy of essential oil from Cananga odorata (Lamk.) Hook.f. & Thomson (Annonaceae) against three mosquito species Aedes aegypti (L.), Anopheles dirus (Peyton and Harrison), and Culex quinquefasciatus (Say).

abstract：:Rhodnius nasutus, a triatomine species autochthonous in the Brazilian Northeast, is primarily associated with the Copernicia prunifera palm tree (Carnauba). For the first time, the colonization of this triatomine in another tree species is reported. To investigate the existence of an infected triatomine focus located ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Lima MM,Sarquis O

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An arbitrary-primed RNA PCR differential display strategy was used to identify midgut genes of the reduviid bug Triatoma infestans that were differentially expressed after a blood meal. From interesting bands, 33 distinct cDNAs were cloned and sequenced. Although many had long open reading frames, most of the transcri...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Kollien AH,Billingsley PF

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On a global basis, ticks transmit a greater variety of pathogenic microorganisms, protozoa, rickettsiae, spirochaets, and viruses than any other arthropods and are among the most important vectors of diseases affecting livestock, humans, and companion animals. Ticks and tick-borne diseases (TTBDs) affect 80% of the wo...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Ghosh S,Bansal GC,Gupta SC,Ray D,Khan MQ,Irshad H,Shahiduzzaman M,Seitzer U,Ahmed JS

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blastocystis hominis has been reclassified as a protozoan parasite. Its role as a human pathogen is somewhat controversial. There has been a dramatic increase in the frequency of B. hominis infection in association with diarrhea especially in immunocompromised hosts like AIDS patients, travelers, homosexuals, day care...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Basak S,Rajurkar MN,Mallick SK

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because benznidazole (BZL) was found to downregulate nitric oxide (NO) and cytokine synthesis by murine macrophages, we analyzed the potential immunological repercussions of BZL treatment in Trypanosoma cruzi-infected rats. To evaluate whether the effects of BZL were also observed in the presence of an immunostimulati...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Piaggio E,Roggero E,Pitashny M,Wietzerbin J,Bottasso OA,Revelli SS

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of plant-derived cysteine proteinases, such as those in papaya latex, as novel anthelmintics requires that the variables affecting efficacy be fully evaluated. Here, we conducted two experiments, the first to test for any effect of host sex and the second to determine whether the intensity of the worm ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Luoga W,Mansur F,Lowe A,Duce IR,Buttle DJ,Behnke JM

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biochemical and structural changes that occur during the conversion of Toxoplasma gondii tachyzoites to bradyzoites and the formation of tissue cyst are not well understood. Maintaining cells infected with T. gondii type II and III strains under stress conditions induces the tachyzoite-bradyzoite in vitro differen...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Castro-Elizalde KN,Hernández-Contreras P,Ramírez-Flores CJ,González-Pozos S,Gómez de León CT,Mondragón-Castelán M,Mondragón-Flores R

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The beta-tubulin coding sequences were investigated for the Chinese liver fluke, Clonorchis sinensis. A cDNA library of adult C. sinensis was screened with cDNA probes synthesized by polymerase chain reaction using degenerate primers, and two beta-tubulin cDNAs, CsTB1 and CsTB3, were subsequently cloned. The CsTB1 and...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Li S,Hong SJ,Choi MH,Hong ST

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigations by scanning and transmission electron microscopy and freeze-etching revealed that eyes of adult Rhipicephalus evertsi mimeticus consist of a lens and photoreceptor cells, which are separated by an acellular layer and the hypodermis. The lens contains numerous pore channels, which open beneath the epicut...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Gothe R,Göbel E,Schöl H

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The overall risk for toxoplasmosis in meat produced in Colombia is unknown. We analyzed by PCR assay meat samples for human consumption in two types of plants in Colombia: 120 samples from class I plants (60 samples from chicken, 30 from swine and 30 from beef) and 60 from class II plants (30 samples from beef and 30 ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Franco-Hernandez EN,Acosta A,Cortés-Vecino J,Gómez-Marín JE

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria is one of the world's leading killer infectious diseases with high incidence and morbidity. The problem of multidrug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum has been aggravating particularly in Southeast Asia. Therefore, development of new potential antimalarial drugs is urgently required. The present study aimed to i...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Thiengsusuk A,Chaijaroenkul W,Na-Bangchang K

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii is a parasite which can be transmitted to humans via the consumption of contaminated meat products derived from different animal species, e.g., poultry. In Europe, the consumption rate of poultry meat is high and may pose a risk for humans. However, little is known about the prevalence and immune res...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Hotop A,Buschtöns S,Bangoura B,Zöller B,Koethe M,Spekker-Bosker K,Hotop SK,Tenter AM,Däubener W,Straubinger RK,Groß U

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatozoon canis is a tick-borne pathogen of canids, which is distributed worldwide. However, very little is known about this protozoan parasite in Pakistan. This study provides the first molecular evidence of H. canis from farm dogs from three agro-ecological zones of Punjab, Pakistan. A conventional PCR targeting th...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Ahmad AS,Saeed MA,Rashid I,Ashraf K,Shehzad W,Traub RJ,Baneth G,Jabbar A

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Free-living amoebae (FLA) are widely spread in the environment and known to cause rare but often serious infections. Besides this, FLA may serve as vehicles for bacterial pathogens. In particular, Legionella pneumophila is known to replicate within FLA thereby also gaining enhanced infectivity. Cooling towers have bee...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Scheikl U,Tsao HF,Horn M,Indra A,Walochnik J

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatty acids, especially those from phospholipids (PLFA), are essential membrane components that are present in relatively constant proportions in biological membranes under natural conditions. However, under harmful growth conditions, such as diseases, environmental changes, and chemical exposure, the fatty acid propo...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： de Azevedo AF,Dutra JL,Santos ML,Santos Dde A,Alves PB,de Moura TR,de Almeida RP,Fernandes MF,Scher R,Fernandes RP

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we cloned a novel full-length cDNA that encodes a Trichinella spiralis cathepsin B-like protease gene (TsCPB) using 3'-RACE PCR. The recombinant mature TsCPB protein (rTsCPB) was then expressed in an Escherichia coli expression system and purified with Ni-affinity chromatography. Real-time quantitative ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Zhan JH,Yao JP,Liu W,Hu XC,Wu ZD,Zhou XW

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The giant thorny-headed worm Macracanthorhynchus hirudinaceus is a zoonotic acanthocephalan species with a worldwide distribution. Its natural definitive hosts are primarily pigs and wild boars (Sus scrofa), and scarabaeid beetles serve as the intermediate host. To date, there has only been one record of this acanthoc...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Kamimura K,Yonemitsu K,Maeda K,Sakaguchi S,Setsuda A,Varcasia A,Sato H

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Capillaria hepatica (syn. Calodium hepaticum) is a globally distributed nematode with a high affinity to the liver of a wide range of mammalian hosts, including humans. Documented reports of the nematode in cats and associated histopathology are rare. Here, we describe a case of C. hepatica infection in a 5-year-old m...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Sazmand A,Khordadmehr M,Nourian A,Otranto D

更新日期：2021-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this study were to evaluate the occurrence of Leishmania infantum in the male and female genital tract and female mammary glands of dogs and the parasite burden and to identify histological alterations associated with this protozoan. Twenty male and 20 female Leishmania-seropositive dogs with isolati...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Boechat VC,Mendes Junior AA,Madeira Mde F,Ferreira LC,Figueiredo FB,Rodrigues Fd,Oliveira Vda C,de Oliveira Rde V,Menezes RC

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While bivalves can acquire trematode metacercariae over their lifetime, the rate at which this accumulation takes place is not necessarily linear. The present study found that the bivalve Macomona liliana acquires very few or no metacercariae until it reaches 30 mm in size, but thereafter the rate at which it becomes ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Leung TL,Poulin R

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Host feeding patterns of engorged sibling species of the Culicoides obsoletus and Culicoides pulicaris groups captured during three nights on two selected farms maintaining either cattle, sheep, horses, and pigs (Seedorf, Brandenburg) or cattle, sheep, moufflons, and red and fallow deer (Paulinenaue, Brandenburg) were...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Bartsch S,Bauer B,Wiemann A,Clausen PH,Steuber S

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work describes a simple method to yield large amounts of Leishmania amastigote-like forms in axenic cultures using promastigotes as the starting population. The method described induced extracellular amastigote transformation of Leishmania amazonensis (97%), Leishmania braziliensis (98%) and Leishmania chagasi (9...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Teixeira MC,de Jesus Santos R,Sampaio RB,Pontes-de-Carvalho L,dos-Santos WL

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sheep infected with the triclabendazole-susceptible Cullompton isolate of Fasciola hepatica were dosed with 15 mg/kg of compound alpha at 12 weeks post-infection. Adult flukes were recovered from the bile ducts at 24, 48, and 72 h post-treatment (p.t.). Changes to the spermatogenic cells in the testis were examined by...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： McConville M,Hanna RE,Brennan GP,McCoy M,Edgar HW,McConnell S,Castillo R,Hernández-Campos A,Fairweather I

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saliva has been suggested as an easily accessible and a noninvasive diagnostic alternative for detection of antibodies. To identify and characterize Schistosoma japonicum (S. japonicum) antigens that are recognized by saliva of infected host, we have used a pool of saliva from infected patients to immunoscreen an egg ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Zhou YP,Wu ZD,Yang LL,Sun X,You X,Yu XB,Hu W,Zheng HQ,Lv ZY

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we compared and validated a nested ABC polymerase chain reaction restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) assay to amplify Cryptosporidium parvum oocyst wall protein (COWP) gene fragment with a previous nested PCR-RFLP method. When RFLP of COWP gene did not provide clear results, we further a...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Leone A,Ripabelli G,Sammarco ML,Grasso GM

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

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：:High resolution two-dimensional separation of Toxoplasma gondii tachyzoite lysate revealed up to 224 distinct protein spots in Coomassie-stained gel. Computional matching of 14 digitized gels yielded a standard two-dimensional proteome map. The excretory T. gondii dense granule proteins GRA1-GRA8, S16/acid phosphatase...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Dlugonska H,Dytnerska K,Reichmann G,Stachelhaus S,Fischer HG

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under natural conditions, eukaryote cells may contain bacteria. Arthropods such as ticks, insects or mites are a group particularly favoured by the obligate intracellular bacteria. While arthropods are vectors for some of them, other bacteria inhabit invertebrate host cells having entered mutualistic interactions. Suc...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Rymaszewska A

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Canine trypanosomosisis (CT) is a common disease caused by tsetse- and non-tsetse-transmitted trypanosomes worldwide. The severity of the disease varies from acute, sub-acute to chronic with non-specific clinical signs. Here, we attempt in a cross-sectional study to assess the current situation of CT and the role of d...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Mossaad E,Satti RA,Fadul A,Suganuma K,Salim B,Elamin EA,Musinguzi SP,Xuan X,Inoue N

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The morphology of the scolex of the tapeworm Silurotaenica siluri (Batsch, 1786) (Proteocephalidae: Gangesiinae), a specific parasite of European wels (Silurus glanis L.), was studied using light, scanning (SEM), and transmission electron (TEM) microscopy. The scolex of S. siluri is rather uniform in shape and size; i...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Scholz T,Zd'árská Z,de Chambrier A,Drábek R

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00