A retrospective survey into the presence of Plasmodium spp. and Toxoplasma gondii in archived tissue samples from New Zealand raptors: New Zealand falcons (Falco novaeseelandiae), Australasian harriers (Circus approximans) and moreporks (Ninox novaeseelan

abstract：:A low molecular weight (LMW) antigen recognized by a murine monoclonal antibody (C(3)4F(1)) was localized within endogenous stages of Eimeria tenella (USDA strain 80). Using indirect fluorescent antibody assay and immunoelectron microscopy, the LMW antigen was found in: sporozoites, first, second and third generation ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Tennyson SA,Barta JR

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasite-mediated selection is currently believed to play an important role in life-history evolution. To assess how simple hematoserological and biochemical condition indices reflect host immunocompetence and infection resistance controlled laboratory experiments are required. We addressed these issues by infecting l...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Hõrak P,Tummeleht L,Talvik H

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examine the taxonomic composition and endemism of adult helminth parasites of freshwater fishes of Mexico, with regard to the main hydrological basins of the country. A presence-absence matrix, including every species of adult helminth parasites of freshwater fishes from 23 Mexican hydrological basins was compiled ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Salgado-Maldonado G,Quiroz-Martínez B

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:Direct wet mount examination and concentration are the most commonly used methods for detecting intestinal parasites from fecal samples. Concentration methods are used when there are fewer protozoan cyst, coccidian oocyst, microsporidial spore, helminth egg, and larvae in the fecal samples. Early detection of the caus...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Koltas IS,Akyar I,Elgun G,Kocagoz T

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The apparent scarcity or absence of blood parasites in some avian groups, such as seabirds, has been related to intrinsic and extrinsic factors including host immunological capacity, host-parasite assemblage, and ecological parameters, but also to reduced sensitivity of some methods to detect low parasite prevalence/i...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Campioni L,Martínez-de la Puente J,Figuerola J,Granadeiro JP,Silva MC,Catry P

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new neogregarine pathogen of the great spruce bark beetle, Dendroctonus micans (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae), is described based on light microscopy and ultrastructural characteristics. The pathogen infects the fat body and the hemolymph of the beetle. The infection was nonsynchronous so that different dev...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Yaman M,Radek R

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the first report of cryptosporidiosis in a bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus) in China. Two Cryptosporidium isolates derived from the same bactrian camel (3-year-old) in November 2005 and April 2006 were characterized using sequence and phylogenetic analysis of the small-subunit rRNA (18S rRNA), 70-kDa heat s...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Wang R,Zhang L,Ning C,Feng Y,Jian F,Xiao L,Lu B,Ai W,Dong H

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy perch (Perca fluviatilis) caught in Lake Constance at Langenargen in May 1990 were examined for parasites. The frequency distributions of the eyefluke Diplostomum spathaceum (Rudolphi, 1819), and the tapeworms Proteocephalus percae (Müller, 1780) and Triaenophorus nodulosus (Pallas, 1781) fitted closely to a n...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Balling TE,Pfeiffer W

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study was performed on a male European bison (Bison bonasus bonasus L.) foetus spontaneously aborted at the fourth or fifth month of pregnancy in the Białowieża Forest. Serum samples from the foetus and mother revealed the presence of antibodies against T. gondii (S/P% = 88% and 75%, respectively). Mobile extracel...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Moskwa B,Bień J,Kornacka A,Cybulska A,Goździk K,Krzysiak MK,Reiterova K,Cabaj W

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study increases the known biodiversity of cnidarian parasites in neotropical bryconid fishes. Two novel Myxobolus species are described based on morphology, ultrastructure and small subunit ribosomal DNA (ssrDNA) sequencing: Myxobolus vetuschicanus n. sp. infecting fins of Salminus franciscanus and Myxobolus mine...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Naldoni J,Carriero MM,Moreira GSA,da Silva MRM,Maia AAM,Adriano EA

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ticks are blood-feeding arthropods and can harbor several bacteria, including the worldwide zoonotic disease Q-fever agent Coxiella burnetii. Recent studies have reported a distinct group of Coxiella mostly associated with Ixodidae ticks, including the primary endosymbionts of Amblyomma americanum. In the present work...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Machado-Ferreira E,Vizzoni VF,Balsemão-Pires E,Moerbeck L,Gazeta GS,Piesman J,Voloch CM,Soares CA

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outbreak of bluetongue disease in Central Europe necessitates new approaches in the identification of vectors to follow-up changes of populations of species and not of complexes. Since females of species of the complex of Culicoides obsoletus are difficult to be identified according to morphological criteria, we a...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Balczun C,Vorsprach B,Meiser CK,Schaub GA

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The catalysis of malate dehydrogenase (MDH) in Plasmodium falciparum (pfMDH) which involves NAD/NADH coupling is crucial for the parasite's pathogenicity. Primers were designed based on the P. falciparum genome resource, and these facilitated the cloning of a gene coding for pfMDH from a local clinical isolate. The DN...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Chan M,Sim TS

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In life cycle of Angiostrongylus costaricensis, veronicellidae mollusks participate as the invertebrate host while rodents as the main vertebrate host. The current work shows a sequential larval development of A. costaricensis in Sarasinula marginata, individually killed and digested from day 1 to 43, post infection. ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Mendonça CL,Carvalho OS,Mota EM,Lenzi HL

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ultrastructure of the tegument, including putative subtegumental cells, of the monogenean gill parasite Macrogyrodactylus clarii is described for the first time. The lateral cells are secretory in nature and can be classified into four types: T1 producing elongated, electron-dense, bodies (t1); T2 manufacturing el...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： El-Naggar MM,Cable J

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemotherapeutic interventions against visceral leishmaniasis (VL) are limited and facing serious concerns of toxicity, high cost, and emerging drug resistance. There is a greater interest in new drug developments from traditionally used medicinal plants which offers unprecedented diversity in structures and bioac...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Singh N,Kumar A,Gupta P,Chand K,Samant M,Maurya R,Dube A

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro leucocyte proliferative responses to parasite antigens and to mitogens as well as lymphocyte sub-types were compared in guinea pigs with genetically determined differences in their ability to express protective immunity against Trichostronylus colubriformis infection. Proliferative responses to parasite antig...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Manjili MH,Sangster NC,Rothwell TL

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the aim of proposing an alternative model to animal experimentation, we investigated cytokine production in response to antigens in an in vitro system. This is a co-culture system of healthy human leukocytes and enterocyte-like Caco-2 cells. The antigens tested, EgA31, EgTrp, and FABP1, are candidates for vaccine...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Fraize M,Sarciron ME,Saboulard D,Azzouz S,Debard AL,Bosquet G,Petavy AF

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Light, electron microscopy and DNA analyses were performed to characterize a microsporidium infecting Rachiplusia nu larvae from a laboratory rearing in Argentina. Diplokaryotic spores were oval and measured 3.61 ± 0.29 × 1.61 ± 0.14 μM (fresh). The spore wall was composed of an electron-dense exospore and an electron...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Arneodo JD,Sciocco-Cap A

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2002, Skerratt et al. phylogenetically analysed sequence data for several haplotypes of the parasitic mite Sarcoptes scabiei from wombat, human and dog hosts in Australia, to test scenarios concerning the origin and diversification of the scabies infections in wombats. Here we note that their substantive conclusion...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Morrison DA,Ljunggren EL,Mattsson JG

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this paper was to investigate the component communities of parasites in Chaetobranchopsis orbicularis from a tributary of the Amazon River system, in Northern Brazil. In 32 fish examined, 902,551 parasites were collected, including Ichthyophthirius multifiliis, Piscinoodinium pillulare, Sciadicleithrum geop...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Tavares-Dias M,Oliveira MSB

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schistosomiasis has been incriminated in the significant increase in hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections, although the association has not been adequately explained. We hypothesized that the CCR5Δ32 mutation may be involved in the high prevalence of HCV with schistosomiasis. The aim was to explore the association betwe...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： El-Moamly AA,El-Sweify MA,Rashad RM,Abdalla EM,Ragheb MM,Awad MM

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, the morphology and morphometric characterization of Dujardinnascaris mujibii (Heterocheilidae) and Hysterothylacium aduncum (Anisakidae), new nematode parasites infecting the sea bream Pagrus pagrus (Osteichthyes, Sparidae), were described for the first time from the Gulf of Suez and Hurghada Cit...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Morsy K,Bashtar AR,Abdel-Ghaffar F,Mostafa N

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The uptake of amino acids is mediated by active transporters located on the basolateral and brush border membranes of intestinal epithelial cells. The current study investigated the expression of amino acid transporters (AAT) and other genes in the intestine of chicks infected with Eimeria maxima. At 7-day postinfecti...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Fetterer RH,Miska KB,Jenkins MC,Wong EA

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Avian blood parasites have been shown to have significant health effects on avifauna worldwide. Sri Lanka, a tropical island rich with resident and migratory birds, has not been properly evaluated for avian blood parasites or their vectors. We investigated the presence of avian haemoparasites in Sri Lankan birds and t...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Chathuranga WGD,Fernando BR,Weereratne TC,Karunaratne SHPP,De Silva WAPP

更新日期：2021-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosoma cruzi proteinases are very likely involved in host-cell invasion. Physiological plasma-proteinase inhibitors from the macroglobulin (MG) family, among them alpha-2-macroglobulin (A2M), are found in tissues and in the plasma of mammals. By complexing to all classes of proteinases, MGs inhibit their action o...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Araujo-Jorge TC,Lage MJ,Rivera MT,Carlier Y,Van Leuven F

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental concurrent infection with two or more parasite species in mammalian host models may result in heterologous antagonistic and synergistic interactions ranging in magnitude from reduced/enhanced growth and fecundity to blockage/enhancement of establishment/expulsion. With some exceptions only, there is a rea...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Christensen NO,Nansen P,Fagbemi BO,Monrad J

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sticky traps were mounted on heifers and sheep to assess Culicoides spp. (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) host preference. Initially, four coloured 200-cm(2) sticky traps (white, clear, yellow and blue) were attached to the backs of each of ten Friesian heifers that were released into open pasture for 24 h, repeated on six ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Thompson GM,Jess S,Gordon AW,Murchie AK

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The time-course of the detection of circulating and urinary filarial antigens was followed with a 2S-IRMA assay, using a mouse monoclonal antibody raised against Brugia malayi larvae, in Mastomys natalensis experimentally infected with Brugia malayi, Brugia pahangi, or Litomosoides carinii. In the prepatent phase of t...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Lutsch C,Cesbron JY,Zahner H,Capron A

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00