Mechanisms of mortality in Culicoides biting midges due to Haemoproteus infection.

abstract：:Most human cases of cryptosporidiosis are caused by Cryptosporidium parvum or Cryptosporidium hominis, but the use of molecular diagnostic methods has revealed that several other less common species or genotypes can also be involved. Here, we describe two unusual causes of cryptosporidiosis, one being the recently des...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Lebbad M,Beser J,Insulander M,Karlsson L,Mattsson JG,Svenungsson B,Axén C

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptosporidium parvum is composed of multiple subtypes, which appear to be zoonotic or anthroponotic. Therefore, in order to understand the molecular epidemiology of this species and to control the zoonotic transmission, it is essential to identify the isolates at the subtype level. In the present study, 60.2% of 103...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Misic Z,Abe N

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:American trypanosamiasis occurs in nature as a sylvatic cycle, where Trypanosoma cruzi interacts with wild triatomines and mammalian reservoirs, such as marsupials, rodents, armadillos and other animals. Due to difficulties in trying to isolate T. cruzi stocks from the sylvatic cycle, very few studies have been perfor...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Fernandes O,Mangia RH,Lisboa CV,Pinho AP,Morel CM,Zingales B,Campbell DA,Jansen AM

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a recent study by our group on the prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections and on the knowledge, attitudes and practices of local residents of Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, we observed that about 50% of the inhabitants were parasitized and had some knowledge of intestinal parasitic infections...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Pereira AP,Alencar MF,Cohen SC,Souza-Júnior PR,Cecchetto F,Mathias LS,Santos CP,Almeida JC,de Moraes Neto AH

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We cloned and expressed Echinostoma caproni HSP70 in Escherichia coli. This molecule presents an open reading frame (ORF) of 655 amino acids, and a theoretical molecular weight of 71 kDa. E. caproni HSP70 protein showed a high homology to other helminth molecules, major differences being located in the C-terminal regi...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Higón M,Monteagudo C,Fried B,Esteban JG,Toledo R,Marcilla A

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recombinant baculovirus-expressed hybrid protein containing epitopes for the C-terminal fragment of the Plasmodium falciparum precursor to the major merozoite surface antigens (PMMSA) and the tetrapeptide repeats of the circumsporozoite protein (CSP) was assessed for its immunogenicity. Murine MHC-II restriction of ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Lockyer MJ,Cooper H,Tite J,Rowan W,Crowe JS

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the context of a broader program dealing with the symbiotic associations of apple snails, we sampled three species that coexist in Lake Regatas (Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina). The population of Asolene platae, (but not those of Pomacea canaliculata and Pomacea scalaris) showed trematode larvae (echinocercariae ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Dellagnola FA,Montes MM,Martorelli SR,Vega IA

更新日期：2019-06-01 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：:Susceptibility to oxidative stress is a well-established feature of the malarial parasite. Pharmacologists have taken advantage of this property to design highly effective pro-oxidant antimalarial drugs. Less well appreciated is the fact that nutritional manipulation of host oxidative stress status by dietary means ca...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Levander OA,Ager AL Jr

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Confocal scanning laser microscopy has been employed with immunocytochemical techniques to map the distribution of serotoninergic and peptidergic components in the nervous system of the monogenean gill-parasite, Diclidophora merlangi; results are compared with the distribution of cholinergic components, following hist...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Maule AG,Halton DW,Johnston CF,Shaw C,Fairweather I

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protoscoleces of Echinococcus granulosus absorb the L-amino acids proline, methionine, leucine, alanine, serine, phenylalanine, lysine and glutamic acid by a combination of mediated transport and diffusion. All eight amino acids were accumulated against a concentration gradient. Comparison of Kt and Vmax values sugges...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Jeffs SA,Arme C

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ticks are of vast medical and veterinary public health importance due to direct damage caused by feeding and their roles in transmitting well known and emerging infectious agents. Ticks and tick-borne pathogens stimulate the immune system of the host. Those immune interactions are of importance in tick biology, pathog...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Brossard M,Wikel SK

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic echinococcosis (CE) is a high prevalence zoonosis among the rural population of Tacuarembó (Uruguay). The correlation between serological data and the incidence of risk factors was studied in a survey carried out in 1998 among rural communities where 480 individuals were examined by means of abdominal sonograph...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Hernández A,Cardozo G,Dematteis S,Baz A,Trias N,Nuñez H,Barragué A,López L,Fuentes J,López O,Ferreira C

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Risk factors for the transmission of Echinococcus multilocularis to humans operate at a range of spatial scales. Over a large area, such as China, regional scale risk is correlated with variation in climatic conditions because of its effect on the spatial distribution of landscapes that can support E. multilocularis t...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Danson FM,Graham AJ,Pleydell DR,Campos-Ponce M,Giraudoux P,Craig PS

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of the phenothiazine, Stelazine, on Hymenolepis diminuta were investigated. The cestode was incubated for 10 min at 37 degrees C with 1 mM trifluoperazine, in the presence and absence of Ca2+. Assay of brush border enzymes showed that drug treatment lowered the activities of alkaline phosphatase, Ca2+-ATP'...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Hipkiss JB,Skinner A,Branford White CJ

更新日期：1987-02-01 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：:n order to investigate the dynamics of Septin4 (Sept4) expression and its function in the formation of fibrotic livers in mice infected with Schistosoma japonicum, we constructed the mouse model of S. japonicum egg-induced liver fibrosis for 24 weeks. Immunohistochemical staining, qRT-PCR and Western blot were used to...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Duan YN,Qian HY,Qin YW,Zhu DD,He XX,Zhou Q,Yang YN,Bao J,Feng JR,Sun W,Chen JL

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the parasitic swimbladder nematode, Anguillicola crassus, on the physiological status of wild European eels (Anguilla anguilla) was investigated during an 18 month survey (February 1995 until September 1996), and compared with that of wild uninfected eels collected over the same time-period. Despite the ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kelly CE,Kennedy CR,Brown JA

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity of Acanthocheilonema viteae to metabolize fructose was investigated in vitro. In common with other filarial species A. viteae oxidized fructose to lactate but its rate of consumption was only 40% of the glucose-containing control value. Fructose was not incorporated into glycogen. Release of 14CO2 from [U...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Hayes DJ,Carter NS

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bat flies (Streblidae) are diverse, obligate blood-feeding insects and probably the most conspicuous ectoparasites of bats. They show preferences for specific body regions on their host bat, which are reflected in behavioural characteristics. In this study, we corroborate the categorization of bat flies into three eco...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Hiller T,Honner B,Page RA,Tschapka M

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing support for the presence of viruses and virus-like particles inside protozoan cells. This study describes viral-like RNA molecules that have been detected in two species of Eimeria that infect the chicken. The RNA molecule identified in E. maxima has been characterized: subcellular fractionation st...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Ellis J,Revets H

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epicontinental fauna of the Iberian Peninsula is strongly influenced by its geographical history. As the possibilities for dispersion of organisms into and from this region were (and still are) limited, the local fauna consists almost exclusively of endemic species. Almost all Iberian freshwater fishes of the fami...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Benovics M,Desdevises Y,Šanda R,Vukić J,Scheifler M,Doadrio I,Sousa-Santos C,Šimková A

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of host specificity and the potential trade-off between being a generalist and a specialist are central issues in the evolutionary ecology of parasites. Different species of parasites or even different populations of the same species often show different degrees of host specificity. However, less is know...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Leung TL,Poulin R

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparison has been made of the responses of random-bred CFLP and inbred NIH mice to infection with Trichuris muris. Random-bred mice showed greater variation in worm burdens and less uniformity in worm expulsion. Irradiation prior to infection reduced variation, but did not increase the mean level of infection abov...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Wakelin D

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the genus Cryptosporidium 2 lineages have evolved, one adapted to the acid environment of the stomach and abomasum, the other comprising parasites that multiply in the small intestine. We tested whether the release of sporozoites from oocysts, a process known as excystation, is triggered by conditions which mim...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Widmer G,Klein P,Bonilla R

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serology is an important tool for the diagnosis of alveolar echinococcosis (AE) in humans. In order to improve serodiagnostic performance, we have developed an in vitro-produced Echinococcus mulilocularis metacestode vesicle fluid (EmVF) antigen for application in an immunoblot assay. Immunoblot analysis of EmVF revea...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Müller N,Frei E,Nuñez S,Gottstein B

更新日期：2007-06-01 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：:Thirty-one stocks of Trypanosoma cruzi, the agent of Chagas disease, representative of the genetic variability of the 2 principal lineages, that subdivide T. cruzi, were selected on the basis of previous multilocus enzyme electrophoresis analysis using 21 loci. Analyses were performed with lower numbers of loci to exp...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Breniere SF,Barnabe C,Bosseno MF,Tibayrenc M

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections with Haemonchus contortus are a major constraint on ruminant health world-wide. Young lambs are very sensitive to Haemonchus infection. Older lambs and sheep acquire immunity after a continuous or seasonal exposure to the parasite. The mechanisms underlying immunity are still not completely understood. Anti...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Schallig HD

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present observational and experimental evidence that cycles of the Lyme disease spirochaete, Borrelia burgdorferi s.l., can be maintained by sheep in the virtual absence of alternative hosts. A 2-year field study in upland moorland habitats of northwest UK established that sheep feed up to 80% of larval, > 99% of n...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Ogden NH,Nuttall PA,Randolph SE

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00