Molecular cloning and characterization of NcROP2Fam-1, a member of the ROP2 family of rhoptry proteins in Neospora caninum that is targeted by antibodies neutralizing host cell invasion in vitro.

abstract：:The anthelmintic properties of tanniferous plants and of their secondary metabolites represent one possible alternative to chemotherapy that is currently being explored as a means of achieving sustainable control of gastrointestinal nematodes in ruminants. Previous in vivo and in vitro results suggest that tanniferous...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Bahuaud D,Martinez-Ortiz de Montellano C,Chauveau S,Prevot F,Torres-Acosta F,Fouraste I,Hoste H

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosoma cruzi, causative agent of Chagas disease, co-infects its triatomine vector with its sister species Trypanosoma rangeli, which shares 60% of its antigens with T. cruzi. Additionally, T. rangeli has been observed to be pathogenic in some of its vector species. Although T. cruzi-T. rangeli co-infections are c...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Peterson JK,Graham AL,Elliott RJ,Dobson AP,Triana Chávez O

更新日期：2016-08-01 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：:A statistical method that analyses correlation structures in families to delineate the contribution of genetic, household and environmental factors on clustering of infection, has been applied to data collected in an area endemic for brugian filariasis in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Infection was assessed both by micro...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Wahyuni S,Houwing-Duistermaat JJ,Syafruddin,Supali T,Yazdanbakhsh M,Sartono E

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neospora caninum infection is a significant cause of abortion in cattle. We investigated the tissue distribution of N. caninum in aborted bovine fetuses and dam blood samples by a nested PCR assay, and compared the nested PCR with ELISA in the diagnosis of N. caninum infection. In total, 26 aborted fetuses and 813 blo...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Yao L,Yang N,Liu Q,Wang M,Zhang W,Qian WF,Hu YF,Ding J

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A delayed gamma distribution satisfactorily described the distribution of times to hatching of Ostertagia circumcincta eggs incubated in 0.1% saline at temperatures between 6 and 20 degrees C. Below 6 degree C hatching of eggs was extremely variable. The relationship between rates of development and temperature within...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Young RR,Anderson N,Overend D,Tweedie RL,Malafant KW,Preston GA

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a zoonotic parasitic diseases caused by a cestode parasite known as Echinococcus multilocularis. The parasite has a wildlife cycle with definitive hosts (foxes) and small mammals as intermediate hosts (rodents) while humans are the accidental hosts. Parasite infection pressure relation ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Khan A,Ahmed H,Sohail A,Alam F,Simsek S

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fine structure of the envelopes surrounding hatched and unhatched oncospheres of Hymenolepis nana has been investigated by transmission and scanning electron microscopy (SEM), together with light microscope histochemical observations of JB-4 embedded material. The oncosphere is surrounded by 3 layers--the capsule,...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Fairweather I,Threadgold LT

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amoebiasis, infection by the protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica, remains a global health problem, despite the availability of effective treatment. While improved sanitation could lead to the eradication of this disease, it is unlikely that this will occur worldwide in the foreseeable future; thus alternative mea...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Stanley SL Jr

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 4-aminoquinolines chloroquine (CQ) and amodiaquine (AM) were used to treat Gambian children with uncomplicated falciparum malaria in a randomized drug trial. Blood samples were taken immediately before treatment (day 0), and at day 7 and day 28 after treatment. Samples from those parasitologically positive at day ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Duraisingh MT,Drakeley CJ,Muller O,Bailey R,Snounou G,Targett GA,Greenwood BM,Warhurst DC

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Risk factors for the transmission of Echinococcus multilocularis to humans operate at a range of spatial scales. Over a large area, such as China, regional scale risk is correlated with variation in climatic conditions because of its effect on the spatial distribution of landscapes that can support E. multilocularis t...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Danson FM,Graham AJ,Pleydell DR,Campos-Ponce M,Giraudoux P,Craig PS

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Populations of hosts vary extensively in the types and numbers of parasites that the average individual contains. Understanding the factors that lead to this variation is an important goal for parasite ecologists. We characterized patterns of helminth component community structure in whitefish collected from a cluster...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Goater CP,Baldwin RE,Scrimgeour GJ

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An M13 phage random 12-mers peptide library was used to screen cathepsin L mimotopes of Fasciola hepatica and to evaluate their immunogenicity in sheep. Seven clones showed positive reactivity to a rabbit anti-cathepsin L1/L2 antiserum in ELISA, and their amino acid sequences deduced by DNA sequencing were tentatively...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Villa-Mancera A,Quiroz-Romero H,Correa D,Ibarra F,Reyes-Pérez M,Reyes-Vivas H,López-Velázquez G,Gazarian K,Gazarian T,Alonso RA

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factors which may be important in the large-scale extraction of coccidial oocysts from faeces ha.ve been investigated with Eimeria tenella. Age of bird, inoculum, feeding status at the time of inoculation, period of collection, feeding status during collection, collection medium, homogenization and sieving, flotation,...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Ryley JF,Meade R,Hazelhurst J,Robinson TE

更新日期：1976-12-01 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：:Accurately identifying resistance to gastrointestinal nematode infections requires the ability to identify animals with low and high intensities of infection. The pathogenic effects of nematodes depend upon both the length and number of worms, neither of which can be measured in live animals. Indices that predict thes...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Mair C,Matthews L,De Cisneros JP,Stefan T,Stear MJ

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surface proteins and glycoproteins of red cells from Plasmodium berghei-infected blood have been radio-isotope labelled and compared with those of normal mouse erythrocytes using the following protein labelling probes: lactoperoxidase-catalysed radio-iodination of tyrosyl residues, periodate oxidation and NaB3H4 r...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Howard RJ,Smith PM,Mitchell GF

更新日期：1980-10-01 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：:Schizont-infected red blood cells (SI-RBC) from Plasmodium berghei-infected mice contain between 2 and 10 times as much sialic acid as uninfected RBC from the same blood (99-550 micrograms/10(10) RBC versus 33-65 micrograms/10(10) RBC). Total RBC samples from infected animals containing up to 63% ring- and trophozoite...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Howard RJ,Seeley DC Jr,Kao V,Wember M,Schauer R

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A metabolic pathway known as the mannitol cycle has been identified in Eimerian parasites. The pathway is a shunt off of the glycolytic pathway at fructose-6-phosphate (F6P). Two enzymes convert F6P to mannitol and two other enzymes are responsible for converting mannitol back to F6P when it is utilized. Although the ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Schmatz DM

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the monogenean communities of 34 species of butterflyfish from the tropical Indo-West Pacific, identifying 13 dactylogyrid species (including two species that are presently undescribed). Monogenean assemblages differed significantly between host species in terms of taxonomic structure, intensity and prevale...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Reverter M,Cutmore SC,Bray R,Cribb TH,Sasal P

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diseases caused by viruses are a constant and major problem for livestock production world wide. The diseases range from highly contagious acute forms with high mortality, to chronic disabling diseases with an insidious effect on production. Such diseases cannot be regarded as static in nature due to the highly mutabl...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Crowther JR

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outcome of a parasite infection is the result of the interaction between the host and the parasite. In the system we studied, there are 3 critical stages for the outcome of infection of the (intermediate) host, the copepod Macrocyclops albidus, with the cestode Schistocephalus solidus. During the establishment pha...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： van der Veen IT,Kurtz J

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many marine fisheries in South American Atlantic coasts (SAAC) are threatened by overfishing and under serious risk of collapsing. The SAAC comprises a diversity of environments, possesses a complex oceanography and harbours a vast biodiversity that provide an enormous potential for using parasites as biological tags ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Cantatore DM,Timi JT

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptors interacting with terminal sugars as ligands are involved in the binding of Leishmania donovani promastigotes to the macrophage surface and their subsequent internalization. Mannose and glucose are specifically involved in the binding process. Decreased binding occurs to macrophages already infected with L. d...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Dutta M,Bandyopadhyay R,Basu MK

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In South America, visceral leishmaniasis is frequently caused by Leishmania infantum and, at an unknown frequency, by Leishmania amazonensis. Therefore, mixed infections with these organisms are possible. Mixed infections might affect the clinical course, immune response, diagnosis, treatment and epidemiology of the d...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： DE Lima Celeste JL,Venuto Moura AP,França-Silva JC,Matos DE Sousa G,Oliveira Silva S,Norma Melo M,Luiz Tafuri W,Carvalho Souza C,Monteiro DE Andrade H

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intact surface membrane vesicles were obtained and purified from the schistosomula of Schistosoma mansoni. The method of preparation of the vesicles involved treating the schistosomula in a buffered high salt medium for 1 h at 4 degrees C (Step 1), and then for 1 h at 25-37 degrees C (Step 2). Vesicles were formed fro...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kusel JR,Gazzinelli G,Colley DG,de Souza CP,Cordeiro MN

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Engorged Ixodes ricinus nymphs collected from sheep resident in an upland UK field site were significantly lighter than nymphs that engorged on previously tick-naïve sheep, indicating that site-resident sheep continually exposed to ticks acquired anti-tick resistance. The weights of engorged nymphs that fed on natural...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Ogden NH,Casey AN,French NP,Adams JD,Woldehiwet Z

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quinine (QN) and quinidine (QND) have been commonly used as effective and affordable antimalarials for over many years. Quinine primarily is used for severe malaria treatment. However, plasmodia resistance to these drugs and poor patient compliance limits their administration to the patients. The declining sensitivity...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Pandey SK,Dwivedi H,Singh S,Siddiqui WA,Tripathi R

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The understanding of the patterns and processes underlying the structure of parasite communities has progressed significantly in the last years; however, much of the evidence available to date on parasite community comes from unconfirmed studies. In this study the ectoparasite communities of 2 related rockfishes, Seba...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： González MT,Oliva ME

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00