Correction to: Acanthamoeba of three morphological groups and distinct genotypes exhibit variable and weakly inter-related physiological properties.

abstract：:Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus are key vectors in the spread of arboviruses such as dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever, and Zika. Triatoma rubrofasciata is an "assassin bug" whose populations and association with humans have dramatically increased and may represent a serious health concern. Control of insect vectors ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Satyal P,Hieu HV,Chuong NTH,Hung NH,Sinh LH,Van The P,Tai TA,Hien VT,Setzer WN

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ruminant coccidiosis is a gastrointestinal disease caused by parasites of the genus Eimeria. Environmental and climatic factors are relevant for the development, survival, and transmission of coccidiosis because Eimeria oocysts are able to survive in the environment for several weeks or months in favorable conditions ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Alcala-Canto Y,Figueroa-Castillo JA,Ibarra-Velarde F,Vera-Montenegro Y,Cervantes-Valencia ME,Alberti-Navarro A

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ultrastructure of alpha-bacteroids in relation to the fat-body cells of the lantern bug Pyrops candelaria was described. The fat-body-cell cytoplasm contained numerous mitochondria, rough endoplasmic reticula, vacuoles, and storage granules. Its nucleus had scattered chromatin materials. The alpha-bacteroid was en...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Wang JB,Cheung WW

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to investigate the links between parasites and behavioural traits of juvenile Murray cod (Maccullochella peelii). The Murray cod is an endangered Australian freshwater fish for which restocking programs are in place and there is a growing human consumption market. However, little is known about the pa...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Shamsi S,Rogers L,Sales E,Kopf RK,Freire R

更新日期：2021-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of the immune response in chronic helminth infections suggest that parasites modulate the host's immune response. Taenia solium metacestodes, in particular, produce molecules that down-regulate cell-mediated immunity. We have described a small RNA peptide termed metacestode factor (MF) that depresses the murin...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Arechavaleta F,Molinari JL,Tato P

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacteria Anaplasma platys, Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Ehrlichia canis are tick-borne agents that cause canine vector-borne disease. The prevalence of these pathogens in South Eastern Europe is unknown with the exception of an isolated case of A. platys detected in a dog imported into Germany from Croatia. To ga...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Huber D,Reil I,Duvnjak S,Jurković D,Lukačević D,Pilat M,Beck A,Mihaljević Ž,Vojta L,Polkinghorne A,Beck R

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The G-Protein-coupled receptor Hc110-R of Haemonchus contortus and its orthologue in Caenorhabditis elegans, the latrophilin-like protein 1 (LAT-1), were shown to play a role in the mode of action of the new anthelmintic compound emodepside. C. elegans LAT-1 knockout mutants showed a decreased paralysing effect of emo...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Krüger N,Harder A,von Samson-Himmelstjerna G

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmania (L.) tropica is a causative agent of cutaneous and occasionally visceral or viscerotropic leishmaniasis in humans. The dose of parasites influences the course and outcome of disease in some Leishmania species. The effect of parasite dose on L. tropica infection in an experimental model was studied in the cu...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Rostamian M,Jafari D,Abolghazi M,Farahani H,Niknam HM

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates the occurrence of anisakids and raphidascarids in commercial fish from Balearic Sea (Western Mediterranean). A total of 335 fish including 19 black anglerfish (Lophius budegassa), 33 white anglerfish (L. piscatorius), 129 European hake (Merluccius merluccius), 30 red mullet (Mullus barbatus), a...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Barcala E,Ramilo A,Ortega N,Picó G,Abollo E,Pascual S,Muñoz P

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both the oncospheral tegument and the hook region membrane (HRM) of Echinococcus multilocularis hexacanths originate from a syncytial binucleate complex that appears in the early stage of morphogenesis and organogenesis of the hexacanth larva. The primordium of this binucleate complex forms a binucleate syncytial cap ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Świderski Z,Miquel J,Azzouz-Maache S,Pétavy AF

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Echinostoma trivolvis adults grown in golden hamsters were treated in vitro with [3H]-tyrosine to label sperm and transplanted to uninfected hamsters alone or with four to six unlabeled adults. After 4-5 days, worms were recovered, processed for autoradiography, and observed for silver grains over their seminal recept...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Nollen PM

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fundamental aim of parasite ecology is to understand the mechanisms behind spatial variation in diversity and structure of parasite assemblages. To understand the contribution of individual parasite species and their assemblages to spatial variation in parasite communities, we examined species contributions to beta ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Spickett A,van der Mescht L,Junker K,Krasnov BR,Haukisalmi V,Matthee S

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resveratrol, a natural phytoalexin found mainly in grapes, possesses a variety of beneficial activities including anticancer, antimicrobial and antiviral. However, there is no information about its effects on kinetoplastid parasites such as Leishmania. Leishmania is a human pathogen responsible for a spectrum of disea...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Kedzierski L,Curtis JM,Kaminska M,Jodynis-Liebert J,Murias M

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case-control study was designed to investigate the role of different Cryptosporidium spp. in Swedish dairy herds with and without calf diarrhoeal problems. Faecal samples were collected from preweaned calves, young stock and cows. Cryptosporidium oocysts were detected by sodium chloride flotation and epifluorescence...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Silverlås C,de Verdier K,Emanuelson U,Mattsson JG,Björkman C

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serine oligopeptidases of trypanosomatids are emerging as important virulence factors and therapeutic targets in trypanosome infections. A complete open reading frame of oligopeptidase B from Leishmania amazonensis was amplified with polymerase chain reaction with gradient annealing temperatures using primers designed...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： de Matos Guedes HL,Carneiro MP,Gomes DC,Rossi-Bergmanmn B,Giovanni de Simone S

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human toxocariasis may be acquired by eating raw chicken liver. However, there are no reports on the prevalence of natural infection of chickens with Toxocara. The aim of this study was to evaluate the presence of anti-Toxocara antibodies as indicators of natural infection with Toxocara, in free-range chickens from Es...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Campos-da-Silva DR,da Paz JS,Fortunato VR,Beltrame MA,Valli LC,Pereira FE

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate morphologically the tongue of individuals with chronic Chagas disease (CD) in comparison to the non-chagasic ones. Twenty-four protocol cases of autopsies were selected. They were subdivided into CD patients (10 cases) and non-chagasic ones (14 cases). The morphometric analysi...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： de Lima Pereira SA,Rodrigues DB,da Fonseca Ferraz ML,da Cunha Castro EC,dos Reis MA,de Paula Antunes Teixeira V

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been claimed that infectious agents transmitted by mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) may have a greater connection to cancer then hitherto supposed and that the immune system struggles to recognize and fight some of these infectious agents. One of the claims made is that there is a connection between human malari...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Ward M,Benelli G

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel approach to control strategies for integrated blood-feeding parasite management is in high demand, including the use of biological control agents. The present study aims to determine the efficacy of optimized crude extract of actinomycetes strain LK1 as biological control agent against the fourth-instar larvae...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Loganathan K,Kumar G,Kirthi AV,Rao KV,Rahuman AA

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the fact that cestodes represent major etiological agents of both human and domestic animal diseases, little is known about the molecular aspects of cestode development. In this work, Mesocestoides corti, a model cestode species, was studied from the early development of its larval form (tetrathyridium) into a...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Laschuk A,Monteiro KM,Vidal NM,Pinto PM,Duran R,Cerveñanski C,Zaha A,Ferreira HB

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the study, we screened a total of 399 adult sheep keds (Melophagus ovinus) for the presence of RNA and DNA specific for arboviral, bacterial, and protozoan vector-borne pathogens. All investigated keds were negative for flaviviruses, phleboviruses, bunyaviruses, Borrelia burgdorferi, Rickettsia spp., Anaplasma phag...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Rudolf I,Betášová L,Bischof V,Venclíková K,Blažejová H,Mendel J,Hubálek Z,Kosoy M

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Precise identification of avian schistosomes in the genus Trichobilharzia at the species level is difficult and requires both traditional morphological and molecular techniques. To obtain satisfactory results by traditional methods, the characteristics of the intact adults or large fragments of male and females are ne...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Ashrafi K,Brant SV

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microneme protein 8 (MIC8) is considered a new essential invasion factor in Toxoplasma gondii. In the present study, a deoxyribonucleic acid vaccine expressing MIC8 of T. gondii was constructed and the immune response it induced in Kunming mice was evaluated. The gene sequence encoding MIC8 was inserted into the eukar...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Liu MM,Yuan ZG,Peng GH,Zhou DH,He XH,Yan C,Yin CC,He Y,Lin RQ,Song HQ,Zhu XQ

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nested PCR was used as a diagnostic tool to investigate the presence of Echinococcus multilocularis tapeworm in protected species of carnivores in Slovakia. Twenty-three faecal samples from wolves, four samples from bears and three samples from lynx from the Muránska Planina mountains and eight samples from wolves fro...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Martínek K,Kolárová L,Hapl E,Literák I,Uhrin M

更新日期：2001-10-01 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：:Aelurostrongylus abstrusus parasitizes the respiratory tract and can heavily affect the breathing and general condition of cats. Experimental infections of six cats were initiated by intragastric administration with 100 or 800 third-stage larvae (L3) obtained from the terrestrial snail Helix aspersa. First-stage larva...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Schnyder M,Di Cesare A,Basso W,Guscetti F,Riond B,Glaus T,Crisi P,Deplazes P

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasmosis represents an important public health issue, with the consumption of raw or undercooked meat being a major way of human infection. The role of beef in the transmission of the parasite to humans is questioned due to lower quantity of tissue cysts compared with other meat-producing species. However, the ha...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Gazzonis AL,Marino AMF,Garippa G,Rossi L,Mignone W,Dini V,Giunta RP,Luini M,Villa L,Zanzani SA,Manfredi MT

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella were detected with the direct DNA extraction method, Legionella culture method, and free-living amoebae (FLA) culture method from weak alkaline carbonate spring water in Taiwan. Moreover, we also investigated the existence of Acanthamoeba, Hartmannella, and Naegleria, ubiquitous FLA in aquatic environments,...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Huang SW,Hsu BM,Chen NH,Huang CC,Huang KH,Chen JS,Kao PM

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated, for the first time, the genetic diversity of Toxoplasma gondii isolates from free-range chickens from the state of Paraíba, Northeast Brazil. Tissue samples from 33 chickens from properties in five municipalities of Paraíba (Esperança, Olho d'Água, Malta, Monteiro, and Patos) were bioassayed in m...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Feitosa TF,Vilela VLR,de Almeida-Neto JL,de Melo LRB,de Morais DF,Alves BF,Nakashima F,Gennari SM,Athayde ACR,de Jesus Pena HF

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the in vitro and in vivo efficacies of chemotherapy employing albendazole liposome (L-ABZ), Huaier aqueous extract, and a Huaier aqueous extract/L-ABZ combination against Echinococcus granulosus. Protoscolices of E. granulosus were incubated in vitro with the two drugs, either ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Lv H,Jiang Y,Liao M,Sun H,Zhang S,Peng X

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00