Morphological and molecular description of Sarcocystis ratti n. sp. from the black rat (Rattus rattus) in Latvia.

abstract：:Leishmaniases are cutaneous, mucocutaneous, and visceral diseases affecting humans and domesticated animals mostly in the tropical and subtropical areas of the planet. Host genetics have been widely investigated for their role in developing various infectious diseases. The SLC11A1 gene has been reported to play a role...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Braliou GG,Kontou PI,Boleti H,Bagos PG

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction cloning of the 3'-ends of the alpha-tubulin cDNAs of Tritrichomonas mobilensis in combination with Southern-blot analysis identified seven to eight distinct alpha-tubulin genes. All seven lack a carboxy-terminal tyrosine and the corresponding sequence compatible with pos...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Schneider A,Plessmann U,Felleisen R,Weber K

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present report describes the radioactive labeling of polar lipids in in vitro cultures of Plasmodium falciparum as well as their extraction with organic solvents and their partial characterization by chemical and enzymatic methods. All substances detected could be cleaved by alkali, suggesting that they were ester...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Dieckmann-Schuppert A,Bender S,Holder AA,Haldar K,Schwarz RT

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to compare the sensitivity of five diagnostic methods commonly used for the detection of Toxoplasma gondii in tissues of naturally infected pigs. We purchased 20 heads of pigs in butcher shops in the city of Ilhéus, Bahia. Brain and tongue fragments were taken from each animal for the performance of P...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Bezerra RA,Carvalho FS,Guimarães LA,Rocha DS,Silva FL,Wenceslau AA,Albuquerque GR

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complex life cycle of Toxoplasma gondii involves many animal species, raising zoonotic, economic, and conservation issues. This complexity is reflected in the molecular structure of T. gondii, whose different genotypes differ in pathogenicity. Among the intermediate hosts of T. gondii, wild ungulates may be a sour...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Formenti N,Gaffuri A,Trogu T,Viganò R,Ferrari N,Lanfranchi P

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cabbage butterfly (Pieris rapae), included in the Lepidoptera genus, Pieris family, is the main pest that damages Cruciferae. In this paper, we reported a microsporidian isolate of Nosema species which was isolated from P. rapae in Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province, China. The mature spore of this microsporidium is lon...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Chen D,Shen Z,Zhu F,Guan R,Hou J,Zhang J,Xu X,Tang X,Xu L

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Asian tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus has undergone a dramatic expansion of its range in the last few decades. Since its first detection in 2007 in Germany at the motorway A5 coming from Italy via Switzerland to Germany, it has been continuously introduced by vehicles, most probably from Italy. After a hint from a...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Becker N,Schön S,Klein AM,Ferstl I,Kizgin A,Tannich E,Kuhn C,Pluskota B,Jöst A

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrastructure of Fibrillaspora is highly similar to that of Berwaldia but the former is phylogenetically distant from the taxon annotated as Berwaldia schaefernai (Genbank accession # AY090042). It was shown recently, however, that the latter sequence was not derived from Berwaldia, and correct nucleotide sequence da...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Simakova AV,Tokarev YS,Issi IV

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of the disaccharidases lactase, maltase, sucrase and trehalase were examined in gerbils during Giardia lamblia infections. In a primary infection with trophozoites, the activities of all four enzymes were reduced from day 10 post-infection (p.i.) and remained at low levels well past the elimination phas...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Mohammed SR,Faubert GM

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mastomys coucha and jirds infected with Acanthocheilonema viteae, a filarial species free of endosymbiontic bacteria of the genus Wolbachia, suffer lethal side effects after effective microfilaricidal therapy with diethylcarbamazine and levamisole, whereas, M. coucha infected with the Wolbachia-infested species Brugia...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Müller HA,Zahner H

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracts were prepared from leaf, bark, and seed of Azadirachta indica, leaf and seed of Prunus persica, bark of Mangifera indica, and leaf of Psidium guajava and were evaluated against Boophilus microplus. Of the eight extracts screened, the extracts prepared from the A. indica seed showed very high level of efficacy...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Srivastava R,Ghosh S,Mandal DB,Azhahianambi P,Singhal PS,Pandey NN,Swarup D

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of resistance against most of the drugs in current use against malaria has aggravated the disease burden in endemic regions. Several plants species have been used for treatment of malaria in traditional/cultural health systems. Bergenia ciliata, used traditionally for treatment of fever by local communit...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Walter NS,Bagai U,Kalia S

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmaniasis is one of the most important diseases transmitted by arthropod. This disease is present in 88 countries. Approximately 400 million people are at risk, and 12 million are involved. We aimed to examine the application of ethanolic extract of the root bark of Berberis vulgaris L. for treatment of mice infec...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Salehabadi A,Karamian M,Farzad MH,Namaei MH

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two isolates of Trypanosoma cruzi were obtained from the patient Berenice, the first human case of Chagas' disease (Chagas 1909), when she was 55 and 71 years old, respectively. The isolates were characterized on the basis of their epimastigote-trypomastigote differentiation in liquid media and of the electrophoretic ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： de Lana M,Chiari CA,Chiari E,Morel CM,Gonçalves AM,Romanha AJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An endopeptidase specific to the Plasmodium falciparum erythrocytic schizont stage and to free merozoites was detected using the fluorogenic GlcA-Val-Leu-Gly-Lys(or Arg)-AEC substrate. The enzyme was purified by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC); its optimal activity was around pH 7.5 and its isoelectric p...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Grellier P,Picard I,Bernard F,Mayer R,Heidrich HG,Monsigny M,Schrével J

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The value profiles of 5 intracellular enzymes, 15 metabolites (with 2 associated ratios), and 3 electrolytes were monitored over time in 9 captive-reared African black-footed penguins (Spheniscus demersus) with different avian malaria clinical status: uninfected, subclinically infected, and clinically infected with fa...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Graczyk TK,Cranfield MR,Bicknese EJ

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hundred forty feral domestic cats trapped between 2004 and 2008 in the city centre and the suburb districts of Dubai, as well as in desert biotopes, were subjected to a complete parasitological dissection. The established parasite fauna consisted of Cystoisospora felis (12.9%), Cystoisospora rivolta (9.2%), Toxopl...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Schuster RK,Thomas K,Sivakumar S,O'Donovan D

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chagas disease, caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, remains a serious public health problem in Latin America. In relation to digestive problems, 4.5% of patients show mega syndromes (megacolon) in the chronic phase. In this article, we evaluated intestinal motility at the acute phase of T. cruzi infection throu...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： de Oliveira GM,de Melo Medeiros M,da Silva Batista W,Santana R,Araújo-Jorge TC,de Souza AP

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saprophytic soil fungi can exert ovicidal and ovistatic effects on helminths with differing degrees of efficiency. The representatives of such fungi from temperate regions, Paecilomyces lilacinus (Thom) Samson and P. marquandii (Masse) Hughes, exhibit recognized ovicidal activity on some nematodes. We evaluated the ac...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Basualdo JA,Ciarmela ML,Sarmiento PL,Minvielle MC

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoscreening of an adult Schistosoma mansoni cDNA expression library, using antibodies raised against purified adult worm tegumental surface membranes, identified a recombinant clone containing a 141-bp insert. Antibodies raised against the recombinant antigen bound specifically to the tegument of adult worms and i...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Knight M,Kelly C,Rodrigues V,Yi X,Wamachi A,Smithers SR,Simpson AJ

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Entamoeba histolytica infection in humans is still one of the leading causes of parasitic diseases among the developing countries, including India. It therefore becomes extremely important to characterize this parasite with the aim of preventing and controlling the amoebiasis which it causes. The present study describ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Prakash A,Chakraborti A,Mahajan RC,Ganguly AK

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accuracies of relative gene expressions as determined by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction are largely dependent on the variabilities of the reference genes used. Validation of the stabilities of reference genes under experimental conditions is an essential initial step for comparative studies on th...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Yoo WG,Kim TI,Li S,Kwon OS,Cho PY,Kim TS,Kim K,Hong SJ

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Necrophagous Sarcophagidae are among the insects most frequently reported from human corpses. The broad forensic application of flesh flies is restricted by the lack of reliable tools for species identification of larval stages and mass breeding of collected flesh fly larvae to the adult stage, and more recently DNA-b...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Szpila K,Richet R,Pape T

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A LightCycler real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay was developed to detect Wuchereria bancrofti DNA in blood-fed mosquitoes. The assay is based on fluorescence melting curve analysis of the PCR product generated from a family of repeated DNA elements: the 182 bp SspI repeat, specific to the genus Wuchereria...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Lulitanond V,Intapan PM,Pipitgool V,Choochote W,Maleewong W

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosoma cruzi proteinases are very likely involved in host-cell invasion. Physiological plasma-proteinase inhibitors from the macroglobulin (MG) family, among them alpha-2-macroglobulin (A2M), are found in tissues and in the plasma of mammals. By complexing to all classes of proteinases, MGs inhibit their action o...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Araujo-Jorge TC,Lage MJ,Rivera MT,Carlier Y,Van Leuven F

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined four species of Plectropomus Oken, 1817 (Serranidae: Epinephelinae), Plectropomus areolatus (Rüppell), Plectropomus laevis (Lacepède), Plectropomus leopardus (Lacepède) and Plectropomus maculatus (Bloch) from sites off Heron Island and Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia (GBR), and the Gambi...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Bott NJ,Miller TL,Cribb TH

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraspecific genetic variation among Triatoma dimidiata (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) from seven Costa Rican populations and from different domestic, peridomestic, and sylvatic ecotopes were analyzed. The complete nucleotide sequence of the nuclear ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer (ITS-2) and partial sequences of ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Blandón-Naranjo M,Zuriaga MA,Azofeifa G,Zeledón R,Bargues MD

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gossypol, a natural polyphenolic compound, induces growth-inhibitory and antiparasitic effects in Taenia taeniaeformis metacestodes in vivo and in vitro. We investigated the uptake and localization of [3H]-gossypol in this parasite. Metacestodes were incubated in 10(-5) M [3H]-gossypol at 37 degrees C. Parasites stead...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Kulp SK,Rikihisa Y,Lin YC,Moh PP,Li PK,Gu Y

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visceral larva migrans (VLM) syndrome caused by Toxocara canis larvae was first described in the 1950s. The role of other nematode larvae, i.e. the pig roundworm Ascaris suum as a causative agent of visceral larva migrans-associated symptoms like general malaise, cough, liver dysfunction, hypereosinophilia with hepato...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Schneider R,Obwaller A,Auer H

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fecal specimens from 432 pre-weaned calves younger than 35 days were collected over a 2-year period (2010-2012) from 74 dairy cattle farms in the central area of Colombia. These samples were microscopically examined for the presence of Cryptosporidium oocysts, and positive specimens were selected for molecular examina...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Avendaño C,Ramo A,Vergara-Castiblanco C,Sánchez-Acedo C,Quílez J

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00