Diverse single-amino-acid repeat profiles in the genus Cryptosporidium.

abstract：:In this study, the proteome of axenically grown Entamoeba histolytica parasites was explored by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-DE), employing a practical and effective procedure for the solubilization of E. histolytica proteins. Approximately 900 protein species in the pH range between 4 and 7 were detected by...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Tolstrup J,Krause E,Tannich E,Bruchhaus I

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the rumen fluke, Calicophoron daubneyi is now very common and widespread throughout Western Europe, reports of clinical cases are still rare. This study explores the epidemiological background to a severe rumen fluke outbreak in 6-month-old heifers on a dairy farm in Ireland. Sequence analysis of the cytochro...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： O'Shaughnessy J,Garcia-Campos A,McAloon CG,Fagan S,de Waal T,McElroy M,Casey M,Good B,Mulcahy G,Fagan J,Murphy D,Zintl A

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study quantifies the rate and intensity of re-infection with human hookworm and Schistosoma mansoni infection 12 months following successful treatment, and investigates the influence of socio-economic, geographical and environmental factors. A longitudinal study of 642 individuals aged over 5 years was conducted ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Cundill B,Alexander N,Bethony JM,Diemert D,Pullan RL,Brooker S

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the distribution of Trypanosoma cruzi Discrete Typing Units (DTUs) in domestic and peridomestic Triatoma infestans and Triatoma sordida specimens collected in a well-defined rural area in Pampa del Indio, northeastern Argentina. Microscopically-positive bugs were randomly selected with a multi-level sampli...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Maffey L,Cardinal MV,Ordóñez-Krasnowski PC,Lanati LA,Lauricella MA,Schijman AG,Gürtler RE

更新日期：2012-10-01 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：:The flatworm nervous system employs a wide repertoire of neuroactive substances, including small chemical messengers, the so called classical transmitters, and several types of neuropeptides. A large body of research accumulated over four decades has provided a wealth of information on the tissue localization and effe...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Ribeiro P,El-Shehabi F,Patocka N

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The abundance of Profilicollis botulus was monitored in eider ducks for 3 years. No significant difference in P. botulus abundance was found between eiders taken alive and those collected dead from the shore line, or between adult males and adult females. Adult male eiders had a seasonal pattern of infection. Incubati...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Thompson AB

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method has been devised to show that malaria parasites can be detected serologically in infected blood with a high degree of sensitivity. Using a murine malaria model, parasites were demonstrated in a solid-phase radio-immunoassay which measured antibody-binding inhibition. Lysed red blood cells (r.b.c.) were incuba...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Mackey L,Perrin L,Leemans E,Lambert PH

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An endemic transmission cycle of Babesia microti was discovered in Colorado in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. B. microti were found by PCR in 4 of 25 Ixodes spinipalpis tick pools tested (a 3.2 % minimum infection rate) and in 87% (13 of 15) of Microtus ochrogaster (the prairie vole) spleen and blood samples. U...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Burkot TR,Schneider BS,Pieniazek NJ,Happ CM,Rutherford JS,Slemenda SB,Hoffmeister E,Maupin GO,Zeidner NS

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmania donovani causes visceral disease (kala-azar), a major health problem throughout the tropics with 500 000 new cases every year. Leishmania differentiates from the promastigote to the amastigote form to establish infection in a mammalian host. To understand the process of differentiation, we assessed the glob...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Srividya G,Duncan R,Sharma P,Raju BV,Nakhasi HL,Salotra P

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：: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：:The radiation-attenuated schistosome vaccine induces a high level of protective immunity in rodents. In order to assess its potential relevance to man, we have tested its efficacy in the non-human primate Papio anubis. A vaccination regime consisting of 3 exposures of approximately 9000 cercariae irradiated with 30 or...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Yole DS,Pemberton R,Reid GD,Wilson RA

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Common bird species were screened during May and June 2007 on Barbados for haemosporidian parasites (Haemosporida) of the genera Haemoproteus and Plasmodium to determine whether the low parasite diversity reported in previous studies might have reflected limited sampling. PCR screening and DNA sequencing revealed a si...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Maria L,Svensson E,Ricklefs RE

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigenic differences between intra-lymphocytic theilerial parasites isolated from the blood of 18 African buffalo and grown in vitro were assessed with anti-schizont monoclonal antibodies (mAbs). There was marked antigenic diversity both between isolates from different buffalo and between isolates taken at different ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Conrad PA,Stagg DA,Grootenhuis JG,Irvin AD,Newson J,Njamunggeh RE,Rossiter PB,Young AS

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of drug resistance by the present Houghton strain of Eimeria tenella to the quinolones, methyl benzoquate and buquinolate, was found to take place after a single experimental passage. The development of resistance was independent of drug selection pressure and showed cross resistance to other quinolone...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Chapman HD

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The behavioural responses of Onchocerca lienalis microfilariae (mf) to tissue factors of the surrogate black fly host, Simulium vittatum, were studied using a novel in vitro bioassay. Mf accumulated towards thoracic tissues to a density 4 times higher than towards abdominal tissues, despite the larger surface area and...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Lehmann T,Cupp SM,Cupp WE

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) is present in all stages of the life-cycle of schistosomes and is located in muscle and on the surface of the parasite. Metrifonate is a drug that inhibits AChE. We compared the AChEs from three schistosome species (Schistosoma mansoni, Schistosoma haematobium and Schistosoma bovis) that ha...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Camacho M,Tarrab-Hazdai R,Espinoza B,Arnon R,Agnew A

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports that inhibition of Leishmania Topo-I with the minor groove-binding ligands (MGBLs) Hoechst 33342 (Ho342) blocks parasite growth in culture by mechanisms involving DNA breakage. While Ho342 inhibited the replication of several species of Leishmania in a dose- and time-dependent manner, Ho258 was not ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Marquis JF,Drolet M,Olivier M

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The uptake of glucose by Acanthocheilonema viteae was studied in vitro. The process was selective for the D-isomer and saturatable with a Km of 2 mM. The rate of glucose transport/utilization was inhibited by 2-deoxyglucose, mannose, 5-thioglucose and dipyridamole but, unlike mammalian systems, was not impaired by cyt...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Hayes DJ,Selwood DL

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells of Leishmania donovani in co-culture with Trypanosoma brucei, were severely affected in their growth, resulting in swelling and subsequent lysis. Similar effects were also observed when Crithidia luciliae or Phytomonas sp. were co-cultured with T. brucei. Direct contact between the cells under investigation and ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Coppens I,Ter Kuile BH,Opperdoes FR

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The host-parasite relationship is exquisitely specific. In exploiting the host niche, a variety of helminth parasites have been shown to directly manipulate their hosts' immune responses. We assessed the ability of a whole-worm extract of Hymenolepis diminuta to modulate immune cell activation. Immune cells isolated f...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Wang A,McKay DM

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Avian malaria is a mosquito-borne disease caused by Plasmodium spp. protozoa. Although these parasites have been extensively studied in North America and Eurasia, knowledge on the diversity of Plasmodium, its vectors and avian hosts in Africa is scarce. In this study, we report on natural malarial infections in free-r...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Aly MZY,Mohamed III,Sebak SI,Vanstreels RET,El Gendy AM

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel repetitive DNA sequence in the sheep parasitic nematode Trichostrongylus colubriformis was cloned and sequenced. A 1.1 kb repetitive sequence (Tc15) which hybridized with DNA from T. colubriformis but not with DNA from two other parasitic nematodes, Haemonchus contortus and Ostertagia circumcincta, or sheep wa...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Callaghan MJ,Beh KJ

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult Onchocerca volvulus worms obtained by enzyme digestion from nodules of infected Mexicans were radio-isotope labelled by the chloramine-T or Bolton-Hunter methods. No antigenic determinants were detected in extracts of worms labelled by the chloramine-T method but 3 antigens were detected in extracts of the Bolto...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Philipp M,Gómez-Priego A,Parkhouse RM,Davies MW,Clark NW,Ogilvie BM,Beltrán-Hernández F

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of small macropodids with the larval stage of Echinococcus granulosus can cause fatalities as well as significant pulmonary impairment and other adverse sequelae. The brush-tailed rock-wallaby (Petrogale penicillata) is a small macropodid listed as vulnerable on the IUCN's Red List of Threatened Species. Thi...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Barnes TS,Goldizen AW,Morton JM,Coleman GT

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virulence factors from the ROP2-family have been extensively studied in Toxoplasma gondii, but in the closely related Neospora caninum only NcROP2Fam-1 has been partially characterized to date. NcROP40 is a member of this family and was found to be more abundantly expressed in virulent isolates. Both NcROP2Fam-1 and N...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Pastor-Fernández I,Regidor-Cerrillo J,Jiménez-Ruiz E,Álvarez-García G,Marugán-Hernández V,Hemphill A,Ortega-Mora LM

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Canine leishmaniosis (CanL) is caused by the parasite Leishmania infantum and is a systemic disease, which can present with variable clinical signs, and clinicopathological abnormalities. Clinical manifestations can range from subclinical infection to very severe systemic disease. Leishmaniosis is categorized as a neg...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Hosein S,Blake DP,Solano-Gallego L

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：SUMMARY:Clinical isolates from 3 microsporidia species, Encephalitozoon intestinalis and Encephalitozoon hellem, and the insect parasite Anncaliia (Brachiola, Nosema) algerae, were used in spore germination and enterocyte-like (C2Bbe1) cell infection assays to determine the effect of a panel of antimicrobial peptides. ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Leitch GJ,Ceballos C

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cod (Gadus morhua), an important fish species in the Baltic Sea, is the paratenic host for many parasite species, including the zoonotic nematodes, Anisakis sp. and Contracaecum osculatum. We aimed to identify which invertebrate species (found in situ in the fish stomach) are responsible for infection of cod with zoon...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Pawlak J,Nadolna-Ałtyn K,Szostakowska B,Pachur M,Bańkowska A,Podolska M

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00