First report of typical Brazilian Toxoplasma gondii genotypes from isolates of free-range chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus) circulating in the state of Paraíba, Northeast Brazil.

abstract：:Serum and colostrum were collected from adult buffalo cows naturally infected with Toxocara vitulorum. When injected into mice, the colostrum reduced the number of larvae of T. vitulorum that migrated in the mice. Injection of particularly the IgG-containing fraction but also the IgM-containing fraction of Sephadex G2...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Rajapakse RP,Lloyd S,Fernando ST

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendrimers are repetitively branched molecules with a broad spectrum of applications, mainly for their antimicrobial properties and as nanocarriers for other molecules. Recently, our research group have synthesized and studied their activity against Acanthamoeba sp., causative agent of a severe ocular disease in human...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Heredero-Bermejo I,Copa-Patiño JL,Soliveri J,Fuentes-Paniagua E,de la Mata FJ,Gomez R,Perez-Serrano J

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differential gene expression of mature and immature Bothriocephalus acheilognathi cestodes was analyzed using the suppression subtractive hybridization technique. Five mature-associated cDNAs were isolated and characterized. Virtual Northern blot and RT-PCR analyses confirmed that four of the five genes were upregulat...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Luo HL,Nie P,Chang MX,Song Y,Yao WJ

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental taeniid strobilae from Taenia solium and T. crassiceps (WFU strain) were incubated for 0-72 h in 0, 5 or 20 mM glucose solutions and further exposed for 15 min to the gap junction fluorochrome Lucifer Yellow. Frozen sections were obtained from each worm and observed under an epifluorescent microscope. Wor...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Willms K,Presas AM,Jiménez JA,Landa A,Zurabián R,Ugarte ME,Robert L

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatozoon canis is a hemoprotozoan organism that infects domestic and wild carnivores throughout much of Europe. The parasite is mainly transmitted through the ingestion of infected ticks containing mature oocysts. The aims of the present survey were to determine the prevalence of H. canis in hunting dogs living in S...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Pacifico L,Braff J,Buono F,Beall M,Neola B,Buch J,Sgroi G,Piantedosi D,Santoro M,Tyrrell P,Fioretti A,Breitschwerdt EB,Chandrashekar R,Veneziano V

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequence, genomic organization, and transcription of the gene encoding the H2A histone protein of the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma rangeli is described in this paper. The locus encoding the T. rangeli H2A protein is formed by at least 11 gene units measuring 790 nucleotides in length, organized in tandem, and lo...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Puerta C,Cuervo P,Thomas MC,Lopez MC

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased gametocytemia in infections with resistant strains of Plasmodium species and their enhanced transmissibility are a matter of concern in planning and evaluating the impact of malaria control strategies. Various studies have determined weekly gametocyte carriage in response to antimalarial drugs in clinical tr...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Abdul-Ghani R,Farag HF,Allam AF,Azazy AA

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To mimic a human malaria infection in the endemic condition, two strains of mice (Balb/c and CBA) were infected and treated several times to generate so-called semi-immune status. As previously reported, neither mice (Balb/c and CBA) strain showed cerebral malaria, even in the susceptible C57BL/6 (B6). The significant...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Helegbe GK,Yanagi T,Senba M,Huy NT,Shuaibu MN,Yamazaki A,Kikuchi M,Yasunami M,Hirayama K

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal parasites are the causative agents of common infections responsible for significant public health problems in developing countries and generally linked to lack of sanitation, safe water, and improper hygiene. More than two billion people throughout the world live with unrelenting illness due to intestinal p...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： de Moraes Neto AH,Pereira AP,Alencar Mde F,Souza PR Jr,Dias RC,Fonseca JG,Santos CP,Almeida JC

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Avian malaria is of significant ecological importance and serves as a model system to study broad patterns of host switching and host specificity. The erythrocyte invasion mechanism of the malaria parasite Plasmodium is mediated, in large part, by proteins of the erythrocyte-binding-like (ebl) family of genes. However...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Martinez C,Marzec T,Smith CD,Tell LA,Sehgal RN

更新日期：2013-03-01 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

abstract：:Balamuthia mandrillaris is a free-living ameba and an opportunistic agent of lethal granulomatous amebic encephalitis (GAE) in humans and other mammals. Its supposed routes of infection have been largely assumed from what is known about Acanthamoeba spp. and Naegleria fowleri, other free-living amebae and opportunisti...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Kiderlen AF,Laube U

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An inexpensive and simple method using acid-phenol was developed for the isolation of total RNA from eimerian oocysts. This procedure provides a pure preparation of undegraded RNA in high yield and can be completed in under 2 h. ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Johnston DA,Bratty J,Fernando MA

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The problems of resistant lines of Plasmodium falciparum are escalating. Twelve seaweeds species belong to five different families (Sargassaceae, Gracilariaceae, Hypneaceae, Corallinaceae and Halimedaceae) were collected from Mandapam coastal area, and the seaweeds extracts were tested for in vitro antiplasmodial acti...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Ravikumar S,Jacob Inbaneson S,Suganthi P

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogen-free rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) aged 735 degree days were experimentally exposed to a low dose of infectious Myxobolus cerebralis (20 triactinomyxons fish(-1)). Three time periods were chosen for sampling that included 10 days (d), 67 d, and 5 months (mo) post exposure. Five diagnostic assays were us...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Kelley GO,Adkison MA,Zagmutt-Vergara FJ,Leutenegger CM,Bethel JW,Myklebust KA,McDowell TS,Hedrick RP

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new nematode species, Philometra spicarae sp. n. (Philometridae), is described from a gravid female found in the abdominal cavity of spicarel, Spicara smaris (Linnaeus) (Centracanthidae, Perciformes), from the Ionian Sea off Sicily, Italy. The new species differs from most other Philometra spp. parasitic in the abdo...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Moravec F,Gaglio G,Giannetto S,Marino F

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effect of host gender and body mass on species richness of flea infracommunities in nine rodent host species from three biomes (temperate zone of central Europe, desert of the Middle East and the tropics of East Africa). Using season- and species-specific generalized linear mixed models and controlling ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Kiffner C,Stanko M,Morand S,Khokhlova IS,Shenbrot GI,Laudisoit A,Leirs H,Hawlena H,Krasnov BR

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of a live Cryptobia salmositica (Kinetoplastida) vaccine on the humoral and cellular immune response, and changes in the peripheral leukocyte populations of Salmo salar were investigated. The vaccine produced detectable parasitemia in the blood which peaked at 5 weeks post-vaccination (w.p.v). Antibodies w...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Chin A,Woo PT

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-four Holando Argentino male calves were treated orally with 50 mg/kg body weight trichlorphon (TCF); 0.2 mg/kg body weight subcutaneous ivermectin (IVM); a combination of TCF+IVM at the same doses and administration routes; or remained untreated (control group). All calves were necropsied at day 14 post treatme...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Fiel C,Guzmán M,Steffan P,Prieto O,Bhushan C

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Free living amoebae (FLA) are protists ubiquitously present in the environment. Aspergillus fumigatus is a mould responsible for severe deep-seated infections, and that can be recovered in the same habitats as the FLA. By conducting coculture experiments and fungal incubation with amoebal supernatants, we report herei...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Maisonneuve E,Cateau E,Kaaki S,Rodier MH

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of orotracheal myiasis in an 80-year-old man in coma for 1 week in the intensive care unit of Baskent University Hospital, Ankara, Turkey, is reported. A number of larvae of Wohlfahrtia magnifica were recovered repeatedly from the mouth and from the intubation tube of the patient and were reared to adults to fa...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Ciftçioğlu N,Altintaş K,Haberal M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atractolytocestus tenuicollis (Li, 1964) Xi, Wang, Wu, Gao et Nie, 2009 is a monozoic, non-segmented tapeworm of the order Caryophyllidea, parasitizing exclusively common carp (Cyprinus carpio L.). In the current work, the first molecular data, in particular complete ribosomal internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) and ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Králová-Hromadová I,Štefka J,Bazsalovicsová E,Bokorová S,Oros M

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comprehensive survey to document the presence of free-living amoebae of the genus Acanthamoeba was conducted in tap water and sea water sources related to human environments in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. Acanthamoeba identification was based on the morphology of cyst and trophozoite forms and PCR amplification...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Lorenzo-Morales J,Ortega-Rivas A,Foronda P,Martínez E,Valladares B

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Presently, there is a need for increased efforts to develop newer and effective methods to control mosquito vectors as the existing chemical and biological methods are not as effective as in earlier period owing to different technical and operational reasons. The use of nanomaterial products in various sectors of scie...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Barik TK,Kamaraju R,Gowswami A

更新日期：2012-09-01 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：:Specimens of Bertiella studeri (Cyclophyllidea, Anoplocephalidae) that have been preserved in ethanol or fixed permanently in formalin for >2 years were used for DNA extraction and molecular characterization. DNA was amplified via PCR from samples collected from different monkey and human hosts using eucestoda-specifi...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Taleb-Hossenkhan N,Bhagwant S

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bimiracidial infections of Lymnaea ovata with Fasciola hepatica were performed under laboratory conditions to determine the susceptibility of snails from six French populations to trematode infection. In five populations of L. ovata the prevalence of infection in the 1-mm groups ranged between 2.7% and 43.7% at day 35...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Dreyfuss G,Vignoles P,Rondelaud D

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Common frogs (Rana temporaria) were exposed either to third-stage larvae (L3) or to first-stage larvae (L1) of Angiostrongylus vasorum. Following exposure to L3, viable larvae could be detected in the frogs for at least 2 weeks. Following exposure to L1, the frogs developed viable L3 in their tissues within 30 days. I...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Bolt G,Monrad J,Frandsen F,Henriksen P,Dietz HH

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study identifies and characterizes one novel type of triactinospomyxon in oligochaete specimen of Branchiura sowerbyi Beddard collected from a fish pond used for rearing gibel carp located in Caidian Experimental Station of the Institute of Hydrobiology. It is nominated as Triactinospomyxon caidianensis type. The...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Zhai YH,Zhou L,Gui JF

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dermanyssus gallinae (Acari: Mesostigmata) is the most important hematophagous ectoparasite in layer farms in many countries. The reproduction rate of the parasite is rapid and can be completed in a week under favorable conditions. The parasite has direct and indirect effects on birds. It can also act as a vector for ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Faghihzadeh Gorji S,Faghihzadeh Gorji S,Rajabloo M

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00