Establishing mono-eukaryotic Histomonas meleagridis cultures from in vivo infection contaminated with Tetratrichomonas gallinarum and Blastocystis spp.

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：:During the course of Schistosoma mansoni murine infection there is a dramatic increase of some immunoglobulins and S. mansoni-specific antibodies. The most substantial response is initiated after 40 days of infection and results in a prolonged increase of total IgG1, IgM and IgA. The maximum increase is respectively 2...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Bout D,Rousseaux R,Carlier Y,Capron A

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies of the forces behind the diversification of parasite assemblages have shed light on many aspects of parasite biodiversity. By using only parasite species richness as their measure of diversity, however, previous investigations have ignored the relatedness among parasite species and the taxonomic structu...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Luque JL,Mouillot D,Poulin R

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Voltage-gated calcium (Ca2+) channels contribute to impulse propagation in excitable cells and also regulate intracellular levels of Ca2+. High voltage-activated (HVA) Ca2+ channels are heteromultimeric membrane proteins. The pore-forming, voltage-sensing subunit is the alpha1 subunit. We have cloned 3 HVA Ca2+ channe...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kohn AB,Lea J,Roberts-Misterly JM,Anderson PA,Greenberg RM

更新日期：2001-11-01 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：:An ultrastructural study has been performed on radiation-attenuated parasites fixed in situ during their extended stay in the lungs. At day 7 post-infection all parasites were located within blood vessels. In contrast to normally migrating parasites, at days 13 and 21 post-infection the majority of radiation-attenuate...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Mastin A,Bickle QD,Wilson RA

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the early stages of the primary Plasmodium chabaudi chabaudi AS parasitaemia in CBA/Ca mice this parasite invaded normocytes, but as the parasitaemia developed increasing numbers of parasites were seen within reticulocytes. During and just after peak parasitaemia, as further parasite replication was controlled,...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Jarra W,Brown KN

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome assemblies can form the basis of comparative analyses fostering insight into the evolutionary genetics of a parasite's pathogenicity, host-pathogen interactions, environmental constraints and invasion biology; however, the length and complexity of many parasite genomes has hampered the development of well-resol...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Thompson PC,Zarlenga DS,Liu MY,Rosenthal BM

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemotactic responses of Strongyloides stercoralis infective larvae (L3) to sodium chloride (NaCl) were investigated by recording larval tracks on a saline gradient in agarose. On agarose, larvae migrated randomly, whereas when placed at 0.01 m NaCl larvae moved to approximately 1.1 m NaCl where they turned, headed do...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Forbes WM,Ashton FT,Boston R,Schad GA

更新日期：2003-08-01 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：:Bile salts have been identified as an important trigger for excystation of Cryptosporidium oocysts but the hierarchy or synergism of this signal in relation to other triggers involved in excystation is poorly understood. In addition to excystation, bile salts have also been reported to increase the invasiveness of spo...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： King BJ,Keegan AR,Phillips R,Fanok S,Monis PT

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome sequencing has greatly contributed to our understanding of parasitic protozoa. This is particularly the case for Cryptosporidium species (phylum Apicomplexa) which are difficult to propagate. Because of their polymorphic nature, simple sequence repeats have been used extensively as genotypic markers to differen...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Widmer G

更新日期：2018-08-01 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：:Schistosoma mansoni depends for its survival on glycolysis. Two glycolytic enzymes, glyceraldehyde-3P-dehydrogenase and triose-phosphate dehydrogenase, found in both the adult and schistosomular tegument, have been reported to confer partial protection against cercarial infection. This paper describes the immunogenic ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Mansour JM,McCrossan MV,Bickle QD,Mansour TE

更新日期：2000-05-01 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：:Post-mesocyclic development of Trypanosoma brucei in the tsetse fly in its migration from midgut to salivary glands, was revisited by sequential microdissection, morphometry and DNA-cytofluorometry. This development started by day 6 after the infective feed, with passage of mesocyclic midgut trypomastigotes through pr...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Van Den Abbeele J,Claes Y,van Bockstaele D,Le Ray D,Coosemans M

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neospora caninum is an Apicomplexan protozoan that has the dog as a definitive host and cattle (among other animals) as intermediate hosts. It causes encephalopathy in dogs and abortion in cows, with significant loss in worldwide livestock. As any Apicomplexan, the parasite invades the cells using proteins contained i...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Pereira LM,Candido-Silva JA,De Vries E,Yatsuda AP

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sex ratio of adult worms has been observed biased towards males in Schistosoma mansoni under natural conditions. The origin of this bias is unknown. This paper determines whether males are more infective than females under controlled experimental bisexual conditions, and hence if the sex ratio is male-biased as a ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Boissier J,Moné H

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete sequence of the 18S small subunit (SSU) ribosomal DNA of Hammondia hammondi and Sarcocystis mucosa was obtained and compared to SSU rDNA sequences of Neospora caninum, Toxoplasma gondii, Besnoitia besnoiti, 2 species of Frenkelia, 3 species of Isospora, and 13 species of Sarcocystis. Analyses showed that ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Jenkins MC,Ellis JT,Liddell S,Ryce C,Munday BL,Morrison DA,Dubey JP

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chagas disease is one of the most important vector-borne zoonotic diseases in Latin America. Control strategies could be improved if transmissibility patterns of its aetiologic agent, Trypanosoma cruzi, were better understood. To understand transmissibility patterns of Chagas disease in Mexico, we inferred potential v...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Rengifo-Correa L,Stephens CR,Morrone JJ,Téllez-Rendón JL,González-Salazar C

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal diarrheagenic polyparasitic infections are among the major public health concerns in developing countries. Here we examined stool specimens by microscopy, DNA dot blot and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to evaluate the co-infection of four principal protozoans among amoebic dysentery cases from Northeast I...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Nath J,Hussain G,Singha B,Paul J,Ghosh SK

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant ribosomal DNA sequences were amplified by PCR and used as probes to perform a fingerprint analysis of total DNA from different Entamoeba histolytica isolates. RFLPs obtained with one of the probes, R-1, support previous proposals that pathogenic and non-pathogenic E. histolytica are closely related, yet ge...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Cruz-Reyes JA,Spice WM,Rehman T,Gisborne E,Ackers JP

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many different drug-resistant lines of rodent malaria are available as screening models. It is obligatory to screen new compounds for antimalarial activity against a series of resistant lines in order to identify a compound with potential for the treatment of multi-drug resistant (MDR) malaria infections. Instead of u...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Tripathi R,Dhawan S,Dutta GP

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A molecular approach was used to genetically characterize 5 species (Aoruroides queenslandensis, Blattophila sphaerolaima, Cordonicola gibsoni, Desmicola ornata and Leidynemella fusiformis) belonging to the superfamily Thelastomatoidea (Nematoda: Oxyurida), a group of pinworms that parasitizes terrestrial arthropods. ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Jex AR,Hu M,Rose HA,Schneider M,Cribb TH,Gasser RB

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An electron microscopical study was made on the development of Eimeria dispersa in the small intestine of the domestic turkey. Turkey poults, 10-14 days of age, were inoculated with oocysts and pieces of intestinal tissue were fixed at intervals between 3.5 and 114 h after inoculation. Sporozoites were occasionally se...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Millard BJ,Lawn AM

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocular, peroral, intraperitoneal, intramuscular, and subcutaneous inoculation of severe combined immunodeficient (SCID) mice with spores of the human isolate (CDC: V404) of Brachiola algerae (syn. Nosema algerae) (Phylum Microspora) revealed that the microsporidium develops in viscera of the immunodeficient mouse host...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Koudela B,Visvesvara GS,Moura H,Vávra J

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effects of Haemoproteus infection on the survival and pathology caused in the biting midges. Forty-six females of Culicoides impunctatus were exposed experimentally by allowing them to feed on a naturally infected red-backed shrike infected with Haemoproteus lanii (lineage hRB1, gametocytaemia 5·2%). S...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Bukauskaitė D,Bernotienė R,Iezhova TA,Valkiūnas G

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of resistance in mice to reinfection with Schistosoma mansoni was recorded during an early chronic infection, and compared with hepatic portal pathological and vascular changes. The latter were assessed using a microsphere injection technique. The degree of acquired resistance was directly dependent on...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： McHugh SM,Coulson PS,Wilson RA

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we describe the molecular analysis of zinc-metalloproteases from the abomasal nematode Ostertagia ostertagi which were exclusively recognized by local antibodies of immune cattle. Full-length or partial coding sequences of 4 different zinc-metalloprotease cDNAs of Ostertagia (met-1, -2, -3 and -4) were ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： De Maere V,Vercauteren I,Geldhof P,Gevaert K,Vercruysse J,Claerebout E

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SSU ribosomal sequences of trypanosomes from Brazilian cattle and water buffalo were used to infer phylogenetic relationships between non-pathogenic T. theileri and allied species parasitic in artiodactyls. T. theileri trypanosomes from distinct geographical regions in Brazil and from other countries were tightly clus...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Rodrigues AC,Paiva F,Campaner M,Stevens JR,Noyes HA,Teixeira MM

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00