Double-stranded RNA reduces growth rates of the gut parasite Crithidia mellificae.

abstract：:A majority of Kudoa spp. infects the somatic muscle of fish establishing cysts. Previously, elevated humoral responses were detected in BALB/c mice immunised with Kudoa sp. pseudocyst extracts and in BALB/c mice orally inoculated with Kudoa sp. pseudocysts, as well as the presence of anti-Kudoa sp. antibodies in human...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Martínez de Velasco G,Rodero M,Cuéllar C,Chivato T,Mateos JM,Laguna R

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior studies have shown that filarial nematodes can effectively metabolize hydrogen peroxide in excess of that generated by activated host cells. However, the mechanisms of H2O2 removal by the filarial parasites are unclear. Herein we report the results of studies carried out on the biochemical activity and on immuno...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Chandrashekar R,Tsuji N,Morales TH,Carmody AB,Ozols VO,Welton J,Tang L

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sheep infected with the triclabendazole-susceptible Cullompton isolate of Fasciola hepatica were dosed with 15 mg/kg of compound alpha at 12 weeks post-infection. Adult flukes were recovered from the bile ducts at 24, 48, and 72 h post-treatment (p.t.). Changes to the spermatogenic cells in the testis were examined by...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： McConville M,Hanna RE,Brennan GP,McCoy M,Edgar HW,McConnell S,Castillo R,Hernández-Campos A,Fairweather I

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:Schistosomiasis caused by different species of schistosome parasites is one of the most debilitating helminthic diseases of humans worldwide. For decades, chemotherapy is the main method of controlling schistosomiasis. However, the fear of drug resistance has motivated the search for alternatives. It has been demonstr...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Li X,Haeberlein S,Zhao L,Mughal MN,Zhu T,Liu L,Fang R,Zhou Y,Zhao J,Grevelding CG,Hu M

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A human homologue of high mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) protein was cloned and characterized from the human filarial parasites Wuchereria bancrofti and Brugia malayi. Sequence analysis showed that W. bancrofti HMGB1 (WbHMGB1) and B. malayi HMGB1 (BmHMGB1) proteins share 99 % sequence identity. Filarial HMGB1 showed typ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Thirugnanam S,Munirathinam G,Veerapathran A,Dakshinamoorthy G,Reddy MV,Ramaswamy K

更新日期：2012-08-01 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：:We report the ultrastructural alterations induced on epimastigotes by nifurtimox and 5-nitro-2-thienyl-malononitrile (5NO2TM), a novel compound with anti-Trypanosoma cruzi activity. Parasites treated with concentrations of nifurtimox lower than usually employed for this kind of study showed vacuolisation, alterations ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Muelas-Serrano S,Pérez-Serrano J,Gómez-Barrio A,Arán VJ,Rodríguez-Caabeiro F

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sarcophagids are a large family of Diptera, with a worldwide distribution. They are related to decomposing organic matter and are very interesting for health science and in forensic cases since many species produce myiasis and occur in human corpses. This family is considered difficult to study, particularly with rega...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Paños-Nicolás Á,Arnaldos MI,García MD,Ubero-Pascal N

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The agar-gel migration technique has previously been described, however, aspects regarding the effect of timing on worm migration needed further scrutiny. In the first experiment, pigs inoculated with Oesophagostomum dentatum were slaughtered simultaneously and their intestines stored at 21-23 degrees C until processe...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Nosal P,Christensen CM,Nansen P

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports results of the first cytogenetic study carried out on a recently described monozoic tapeworm, Khawia saurogobii Xi et al., 2009, from the Chinese lizard gudgeon (Saurogobio dabryi). The karyotype of this species is composed of eight pairs of metacentric and telocentric chromosomes (2n = 16; n = 3m +...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Orosová M,Marec F,Oros M,Xi BW,Scholz T

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study evaluated the distribution and viability of Toxoplasma gondii tissue cysts in the organs and Brazilian commercial cuts of experimentally infected pigs. The pigs were infected with 3 × 103 oocysts of the T. gondii isolate TgCkBr57 (Type BrII). Mouse bioassays were performed on the brain, retina, tongu...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Alves BF,Oliveira S,Soares HS,Pena HFJ,Conte-Junior CA,Gennari SM

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work investigated the anti-amoebic activity of two samarium (Sm) complexes, the acyclic complex [bis(picrato)(pentaethylene glycol)samarium(III)] picrate-referred to as [Sm(Pic)2(EO5)](Pic)-and the cyclic complex [bis(picrato)(18-crown-6)samarium(III)] picrate-referred to as [Sm(Pic)2(18C6)](Pic). Both Sm complex...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Kusrini E,Hashim F,Gunawan C,Mann R,Azmi WNNWN,Amin NM

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ixodes holocyclus has a narrow, discontinuous distribution along the east coast of Australia. We studied ticks from 17 localities throughout the geographic range of this tick. The ITS2 of I. holocyclus is 793 bp long. We found nucleotide variation at eight of the 588 nucleotide positions (1.4%) that were compared for ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Shaw M,Murrell A,Barker SC

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synoptic data and an understanding of helminth parasite diversity among diverse rodent assemblages across temperate latitudes of North America remain remarkably incomplete. Renewed attention to comprehensive survey and inventory to establish the structure of biodiverse faunas is essential in providing indicators and p...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Hoberg EP,Makarikov AA,Tkach VV,Meagher S,Nims TN,Eckerlin RP,Galbreath KE

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under natural conditions, eukaryote cells may contain bacteria. Arthropods such as ticks, insects or mites are a group particularly favoured by the obligate intracellular bacteria. While arthropods are vectors for some of them, other bacteria inhabit invertebrate host cells having entered mutualistic interactions. Suc...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Rymaszewska A

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 37 juvenile Etmopterus spinax from the Norwegian Deep were examined for stomach contents and metazoan ecto- and endoparasites. These squaliform elasmobranchs were caught by benthopelagic net in May 2001 at a depth of 194-214 m. The euphausiid Meganyctiphanes norvegica and the teleost Maurolicus muelleri wer...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Klimpel S,Palm HW,Seehagen A

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eggs obtained from the uteri of female nematodes, genetically identified as Contracaecum multipapillatum s.l., found in a brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) from Bahía de La Paz, Gulf of California, Mexico, were used to study the early developmental stages of this anisakid by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Eg...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Molina-Fernández D,Valles-Vega I,Hernández-Trujillo S,Adroher FJ,Benítez R

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With this case report, we describe Trombiculidae larvae (Neotrombicula autumnalis) infestation in a Little Bittern (Ixobrychus minutus) which was brought to our clinics by the Directorship of Environmental and Forestry authorities of Samsun, Turkey in April, 2007. The male Little Bittern (I. minutus), with a black bac...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Cakiroglu D,Pekmezci D,Meral Y,Gokalp G,Acici M

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to assess the effect of crude extracts of marine actinobacteria on larvicidal, repellent, and ovicidal activities against Culex tritaeniorhynchus and Culex gelidus (Diptera: Culicidae). The early fourth instar larvae of C. tritaeniorhynchus and C. gelidus, reared in the laboratory,...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Karthik L,Gaurav K,Rao KV,Rajakumar G,Rahuman AA

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In April 2000, we collected and analyzed for parasites 174 feces belonging to 48 different and identified Cantabrian capercaillies (Tetrao urogallus cantabricus) from 39 lek sites in the Cantabrian Mountains (North Spain) and determined the factors related with prevalence and abundance of propagule excretion: (1) inte...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Millán J,Gortazar C,Ballesteros F

更新日期：2008-08-01 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

abstract：:Differentiation between viable and non-viable hookworm ova in environmental samples is necessary in order to implement strategies to mitigate re-infections in endemic regions. In this study, an untargeted metabolic profiling method was developed that utilised gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) in order to in...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Gyawali P,Beale DJ,Ahmed W,Karpe AV,Magalhaes RJ,Morrison PD,Palombo EA

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water from Lake Anna in Virginia, a lake that is used to cool reactors at a nuclear power plant and for recreational activities, was assessed for the presence of Naegleria fowleri, an ameba that causes primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM). This survey was undertaken because it has been reported that thermally enri...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Jamerson M,Remmers K,Cabral G,Marciano-Cabral F

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Field and experimental bovine infection sera were used in immunoblots of sporozoite and schizont lysates of Theileria parva to identify candidate diagnostic antigens. Four parasite antigens of Mr 67,000 (p67), 85,000 (the polymorphic immunodominant molecule, PIM), 104,000 (p104), and 150,000 (p150) were selected for a...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Katende J,Morzaria S,Toye P,Skilton R,Nene V,Nkonge C,Musoke A

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several polymorphic markers, including serine-rich protein genes, have been used for the genotyping of isolates from the morphologically indistinguishable protozoan parasites Entamoeba histolytica, Entamoeba dispar, and Entamoeba nuttalli. Genotypes of tRNA-linked short tandem repeats (STRs) are highly polymorphic, bu...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Feng M,Komiyama T,Yanagi T,Cheng X,Sherchand JB,Tachibana H

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to provide a comprehensive description of the ultrastructure of the esophagus of Trichinella spiralis muscle larvae. Although the esophagus exhibited basically the same structure throughout its entire length, being composed of a single cell-layered epithelium, the basal lamina, and the cuticle,...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Takahashi Y,Uno T,Yagi J,Yamada S,Araki T

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When given orally, quinine or salinomycin cause irreversible damage to the plasmodial developmental stages of Henneguya sp., a gill parasite in the tapir fish Gnathonemus petersii. Naturally infected tapir fish measured 75-169 mm in total length and their total weight ranged over 4.3-11.7 g. The fish bore 7-77 plasmod...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Dohle A,Schmahl G,Raether W,Schmidt H,Ritter G

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first schizogony of Eimeria bovis takes place in lymphatic endothelial cells of the ileum, resulting in the formation of macroschizonts within 2-3 weeks. In this study, we analyse early cellular immune responses to infected host cells on the basis of peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) adhesion on and transmi...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Taubert A,Zahner H,Hermosilla C

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA content of the developmental stages within the life cycle of Babesia divergens was measured by means of fluorescence microscopy using the DNA-specific bisbenzimide Hoechst 33258. By comparing the mean relative fluorescence intensities, the assumption of sexual reproduction in the gut of the tick vector (Ixodes...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Mackenstedt U,Gauer M,Mehlhorn H,Schein E,Hauschild S

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00