Mitochondrial Gene Heterogeneity and Population Genetics of Haemaphysalis longicornis (Acari: Ixodidae) in China.

abstract：PURPOSE:Leishmaniasis, as one of the most important vector-borne and zoonotic diseases, can be seen in different forms and is more prevalent in developing countries worldwide. Due to the absence of effective strategies in its prevention, treatment, and control, investigation of effective control strategies against the ...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Namavari M,Namazi F,Asadi-Manesh R,Hosseini MH,Nazifi S,Asadpour M

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to evaluate the in vitro and in vivo efficacy of propolis against Ligictaluridus floridanus on Ictalurus punctatus gills. METHODS:This study used an ethanol extract of propolis at a concentration of 300 mg mL-1, with a total polyphenol concentration of 2.77 mg mL-1 as determined by ch...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： de la Cruz-Cervantes JA,Sánchez-Martínez JG,Ruíz-Uribe AJ,Vázquez-Sauceda ML,Rábago-Castro JL,Pérez-Castañeda R,Blanco-Martínez Z,Garrido-Olvera L,Benavides-González F

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The present paper represented the third installment on the monogenoidean parasites collected during a workshop exploring the diversity of the parasites of fishes in Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. Previous reports on monogenoids collected during the workshop included species parasitizing beloniform and g...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Kritsky DC

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cosmocerca leytensis sp. nov. (Ascaridida, Cosmocercidae) from the large intestine of Cyrtodactylus gubaot (Squamata: Gekkonidae) collected on Leyte Island, Philippines is described and illustrated. Cosmocerca leytensis sp. nov. is the 30th species assigned to the genus, the 4th from the Oriental region, and the first...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Bursey CR,Goldberg SR,Siler CD,Brown RM

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BACKGROUND : Tetraonchidae is a small and relatively monomorphic family of dactylogyroid monogeneans. Since the morphology of sclerites of the attachment organ (haptor) is one of the primary criteria in tetraonchid taxonomy, the confocal study of sclerites and associated musculature may provide valuable taxonomic info...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Petrov AA,Gerasev PI

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A heterologous prime-boost vaccination regime with DNA and recombinant vaccinia virus (rvv) vectors expressing relevant antigens has been shown to induce effective immune responses against several infectious pathogens. In this study, we describe the effectiveness of the prime-boost strategy by immunizing dogs with a r...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Cao S,Mousa AA,Aboge GO,Kamyingkird K,Zhou M,Moumouni PF,Terkawi MA,Masatani T,Nishikawa Y,Suzuki H,Fukumoto S,Xuan X

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosoma cruzi (Tc), the causative agent of Chagas disease, affects millions of people worldwide. One of the major characteristics of T. cruzi is related to its heterogeneity due to the variability of its biological properties, parasite growth rates, infectivity, tissue tropism, morbidity and virulence among differ...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Sales-Campos H,Kappel HB,Andrade CP,Lima TP,de Castilho A,Giraldo LE,Lages-Silva E

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Parasitism is a complex problem that is often ignored in companion animals, including birds, unless it develops into a severe clinical disorder. The present study was, therefore, aimed to investigate the presence of the gastrointestinal nematode infecting the domestic pigeon and provide a complete morphologi...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Al Quraishy S,Abdel-Gaber R,Dkhil MA,Alzuabi K

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study concerns a new neogregarine parasitic in the great spruce bark beetle Dendroctonus micans (Kugelann) (Curculionidae, Scolytinae). The rate of infection was high, reaching 27.3%. There was no difference in the rate of infection of male and female beetles. The life-cycle stages of the pathogen were described ...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Yaman M,Radek R

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two species of parasitic nematodes, Heliconema ahiri Karve, 1941 (Physalopteridae) and Procamallanus (Spirocamallanus) anguillae Moravec et al., 2006 (Camallanidae), were recorded from the Indonesian shortfin eel Anguilla bicolor bicolor Mc-Clelland in the Chalakkudi River and Veli Lake, respectively, both Kerala, Ind...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Moravec F,Sheeba S,Kumar AB

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspiculuris tianjinensis sp. nov. recovered from the intestine of Clethrionomys rufocanus from Tianjin, China is described and illustrated using light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy. The new species differs from congeners in the shape of the cervical alae, and the number and arrangement of caudal papillae...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Liu B,Bu Y,Zhang L

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two new species of Oswaldocruzia, O. manuensis sp. nov., and O. urubambaensis sp. nov. are described and illustrated from Peru, these are parasites of the cane toad Rhinella marina. O. manuensis is characterized by having cervical alae which are not well developed, ridges without chitinous supports, caudal bursa type ...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Guerrero R

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To seek for the optimal immunization procedure of DNA vaccine pVAX1-pEtK2-IL-2 which was produced via cloning pEtK2 antigen gene of Eimeria tenella (E. tenella) and chicken IL-2 (chIL-2) gene into expression vector pVAX1. METHODS:The doses, routes, times of inoculation and ages of the first inoculation of chic...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Zhang B,Yuan C,Song X,Xu L,Yan R,Shah MAA,Guo C,Zhu S,Li X

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasites are ubiquitous members of biotic communities. To investigate the infective status of helminth parasites in Pelophylax nigromaculatus from Shanghai, 90 frogs were collected from July 2013 to July 2014 and examined for the presence of internal parasites. Of these, 86.67% (78/90) of frogs were infected with par...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Men Q,Han H,Zhao Q,Xia W,Dong H,Zhu S,Wang Z,Li C,Zhu X,Huang B

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyopisthocotylean monogenean parasites of fishes are highly host specific and have been used as an appropriate model to study the host-parasite co-evolution. In the present study, eight monogeneans of the order Mazocraeidea were characterized by nuclear 28S rDNA sequences and their phylogenetic relationship with oth...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Tambireddy N,Gayatri T,Gireesh-Babu P,Pavan-Kumar A

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perumytilus purpuratus is an abundant bivalve located in the intertidal rocky zone of South America that has been considered as a key species of the ecosystem. There are few studies of the host-parasite relationship of this bivalve; thus, this research aims to analyse the spatial and temporal variation in the prevalen...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Muñoz G,Torres P,Valdés J,Rodríguez A

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The black grouper Mycteroperca bonaci is a commercially important fish off the coast of Yucatan, Mexico. To investigate possible differences between parasite communities in two different environments, 60 fish were collected from two areas during 2010 and 2011 and examined for parasites. The fish were classified into t...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Espínola-Novelo JF,González-Salas C,Guillén-Hernández S,MacKenzie K

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Larval stages of trombiculid mites infest a wide variety of wild and domestic animals. The most common clinical signs related with the presence of these parasites are alopecia, crusts, erythema, excoriation, erosion, papules, pustules and vesicles. Most of trombiculid infestations may not be perceived by the cl...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Ramilo DW,Costa P,Stekolnikov AA,Cláudio JM,Lourenço AM,Pereira da Fonseca I,Cardoso L

更新日期：2020-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A new feather mite species, Tyrannidectes pteroptochi sp. n. (Astigmata: Proctophyllodidae: Pterodectinae), is described from the Moustached Turca Pteroptochos megapodius Kittlitz, 1830 (Passeriformes: Rhinocryptidae) in Chile. This is the first record of mites of the genus Tyrannidectes Mironov 2008 from this family ...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Mironov SV,González-Acuña DA

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of 5, 20, and 40 miracidia dose exposures of Echinostoma caproni on the amino acid contents of Biomphalaria glabrata were studied using high performance thin-layer chromatography-densitometry. Amino acids were identified and quantified in whole bodies of exposed snails and in the uninfected matched control...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Nguyen M,Fried B,Sherma J

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Larval trematodes infecting the snail Heleobia australis (Cochliopidae) from the Bahía Blanca estuary, Argentina were surveyed for two years. A total of 7,504 snail specimens was dissected and the larval stages of 15 different trematodes were recovered and examined morphologically. These larvae included four species t...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Alda P,Martorelli SR

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PURPOSE : The present study aimed to investigate the amoebicidal and amoebistatic efects of Artemisia argyi leaf methanolic extract by testing the effects on trophozoites and on cysts. We also determined cytotoxic effect, enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidant activities, total phenolic, lavonoid and antioxidative co...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Kolören O,Kolören Z,Şekeroğlu ZA,Çolayvaz M,Karanis P

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND METHODS:This study described the detection, prevalence and phylogeny of Anaplasma marginale in the bovine (cattle and buffaloes) and Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus tick belonged to the tribal area of coastal South Gujarat, India, by amplifying 576 bp of major surface protein (msp) 5 gene using custo...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Kumar N,Solanki JB,Varghese A,Jadav MM,Das B,Patel MD,Patel DC

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tegument ultrastructure of the intestinal fluke Aphallus tubarium was studied for the first time with the use of scanning and transmission electron microscopy. New details on morphology were recorded. The ultrastructural study revealed that the tegument of A. tubarium had a syncytial organization with a distal cyt...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Antonelli L,Quilichini Y,Foata J,Marchand B

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microsporidiosis is considered to be emerging opportunistic infection in immunocompromised individuals worldwide. The aim of this study was to identify the specific serum antibodies to intestinal microsporidia Encephalitozoon cuniculi and Encephalitozoon intestinalis in women with Human Papillomavirus HPV and without ...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Adam J,Valenčáková A,Halánová M,Danišová O,Gorbarová K,Čisláková L

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Sri Lanka is endemic to cutaneous leishmaniasis and reported as the latest focus of leishmaniasis in the Asian subcontinent. Annually, the number of leishmaniasis cases is increasing; therefore, more efficient diagnostic tools, treatment methods and effective prevention measures are indispensable. For this reas...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Amarasinghe A,Wickramasinghe S

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Little is known about cryptosporidiosis in turtles of invasive alien species (IAS) inhabiting European bodies of fresh water. In this article, we report an occurrence of Cryptosporidium parvum in a red-eared slider turtle (Trachemys scripta elegans) captured in a rural aquatic ecosystem in eastern Poland. METH...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Rzeżutka A,Kaupke A,Gorzkowski B

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new feather mite species, Trouessartia sechellarum sp. n. (Astigmata: Analgoidea: Trouessartiidae), is described from the Seychelles magpie-robin Copsychus sechellarum (Passeriformes: Muscicapidae), an endangered endemic passerine bird inhabiting the Seychelles Islands. The most clear features distinguishing this mi...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Mironov SV,Palma RL

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nematodes Ashworthius sidemi are typical parasites of Asiatic cervids, mostly sika deer (Cervus nippon). Migrating red deer have probably introduced this parasite to the area of Poland from neighbouring countries. The aim of the study was to determine prevalence and intensity of infection of red deer and roe deer from...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Demiaszkiewicz AW,Merta D,Kobielski J,Filip KJ,Pyziel AM

更新日期：2017-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Fish parasites can cause diseases in humans and lead to commercial losses in fisheries and aquaculture. The objectives of this study were to analyze E. ongus's parasite fauna regarding food safety and parasite transmission risk between Epinephelus species and test whether E.ongus populations can be distinguishe...

journal_title：Acta parasitologica

authors： Koepper S,Nuryati S,Palm HW,Theisen S,Wild C,Yulianto I,Kleinertz S

更新日期：2020-12-14 00:00:00