Pangloss revisited: a critique of the dilution effect and the biodiversity-buffers-disease paradigm.

abstract：:A specific enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, based on a 48 kDa metallo-proteinase isolated from the frontal glands of a porocephalid pentastomid (Porocephalus crotali) in rat intermediate hosts, is described. SDS-PAGE analysis of whole nymphal homogenate, followed by Western blotting and probing with immune rat serum...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Jones DA,Riley J

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary immune response to infection with Heligmosomoides polygyrus was studied in mice differing in response phenotype (fast-SWR, intermediate-NIH, slow-CBA). Marked IgG1 and IgE but not IgG2a antibody responses were detected in infected mice and the former were more intense in fast compared with slow responder s...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Wahid FN,Behnke JM,Grencis RK,Else KJ,Ben-Smith AW

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete nucleotide sequence of the mitochondrial genome was determined for the fish tapeworm Diphyllobothrium latum. This genome is 13,608 bp in length and encodes 12 protein-coding genes (but lacks the atp8), 22 transfer RNA (tRNA) and 2 ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes, corresponding to the gene complement found thus...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Park JK,Kim KH,Kang S,Jeon HK,Kim JH,Littlewood DT,Eom KS

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many zoonotic disease agents are transmitted between hosts by arthropod vectors, including fleas, but few empirical studies of host-vector-microparasite dynamics have investigated the relative importance of hosts and vectors. This study investigates the dynamics of 4 closely related Bartonella species and their flea v...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Telfer S,Begon M,Bennett M,Bown KJ,Burthe S,Lambin X,Telford G,Birtles R

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review, we envisage the host environment, not as a hostile one, since the schistosome thrives there, but as one in which the relationship between the two organisms consists of constant communication, through signalling mechanisms involving sense organs, surface glycocalyx, surface membrane and internal organs ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kusel JR,Al-Adhami BH,Doenhoff MJ

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmission experiments were conducted to compare the transmissibility of genetically different Trypanosoma congolense (Savannah subgroup) strains isolated from cattle in a trypanosomiasis endemic area of eastern Zambia. A total of 17 strains were compared. Three strains were extremely virulent with a short pre-paten...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Masumu J,Marcotty T,Ndeledje N,Kubi C,Geerts S,Vercruysse J,Dorny P,van den Bossche P

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an experiment to study the infectivity, growth and virulence of Schistocephalus solidus in their first intermediate host, copepods of the species Macrocyclops albidus were kept singly and exposed to up to 9 coracidia. Eleven or 14 days post-infection (p.i.) the presence and growth of the cestode larvae relative to ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Wedekind C

更新日期：1997-09-01 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：:Neurological involvement following trypanosome infection has been recognised for over a century. However, there are still many unanswered questions concerning the mechanisms used by the parasite to gain entry to the CNS and the pathogenesis of the resulting neuroinflammatory reaction. There is a paucity of material fr...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Rodgers J

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prevention of heartworm disease caused by Dirofilaria immitis in domestic dogs and cats relies on a single drug class, the macrocyclic lactones (MLs). Recently, it has been demonstrated that ML-resistant D. immitis are circulating in the Mississippi Delta region of the USA, but the prevalence and impact of these resis...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Wolstenholme AJ,Evans CC,Jimenez PD,Moorhead AR

更新日期：2015-09-01 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：:The pre-feeding and feeding periods of larvae, nymphs and adults of Rhipicephalus appendiculatus on rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) were investigated. Larvae and nymphs required at least 8-9 days after hatching and moulting respectively before they could attach and start feeding, while adults required at least 6-9 day...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Tukahirwa EM

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional mice and congenitally athymic, nude mice were infected with 20 metacercariae of the intestinal trematode Echinostoma revolutum. The sequential events in the pathological changes in the intestine were studied at different intervals post-infection. By day 11 onwards the conventional mice displayed dilatatio...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Bindseil E,Christensen NO

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Judged by oocyst production, infections with Eimeria acervulina in birds immunized with E. maxima were consistently higher than in birds which had not been immunized. Oocyst production of E. maxima in birds previously infected with E. acervulina was greater, in three out of four experiments, than in control chickens,...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Rose ME

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryonic stages of various Onchocerca species have been used to stimulate resistance in CBA mice to challenge injections with the microfilariae of Onchocerca lienalis. Comparable levels of resistance to challenge (29-37% reductions) were conferred by living, freeze-killed, or sonicated organisms administered with Fre...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Carlow CK,Bianco AE

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vertically transmitted parasites (VTPs) such as Wolbachia are expected not only to minimize the damage they inflict on their hosts, but also to protect their hosts against the damaging effects of coinfecting parasites. By modifying the fitness costs of the infection, VTPs can therefore play an important role in the ev...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Zélé F,Denoyelle J,Duron O,Rivero A

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Avian malaria is a mosquito-borne disease caused by Plasmodium spp. protozoa. Although these parasites have been extensively studied in North America and Eurasia, knowledge on the diversity of Plasmodium, its vectors and avian hosts in Africa is scarce. In this study, we report on natural malarial infections in free-r...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Aly MZY,Mohamed III,Sebak SI,Vanstreels RET,El Gendy AM

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between December 2007 and March 2009, small mammals were captured in 6 Atlantic Forest patches in Brazil. We assessed tick-host associations and whether they differ among forest strata, sites, seasons, and host age classes or between sexes. Moreover, we assessed the exposure of animals to Rickettsia spp. In total, 432...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Dantas-Torres F,Aléssio FM,Siqueira DB,Mauffrey JF,Marvulo MF,Martins TF,Moraes-Filho J,Camargo MC,D'Auria SR,Labruna MB,Silva JC

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA encoding a beta-galactoside-binding lectin (galectin) was identified by immunoscreening a Haemonchus contortus cDNA library with antisera from lambs vaccinated with a membrane protein complex (H-gal-GP) derived from the parasites' gut. The cDNA sequence, exhibiting a tandem repeat structure and designated Hco-g...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Newlands GF,Skuce PJ,Knox DP,Smith SK,Smith WD

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of host heterogeneity in generating aggregation was investigated using Heligmosomoides polygyrus (Nematoda) in laboratory mice. Parameters of infection were compared between inbred and outbred mice, between primary and challenge infection protocols, and between gavage and natural exposure protocols, to ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Tanguay GV,Scott ME

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive parasites can spill over to new hosts in invaded ecosystems with often unpredictable trophic relationships in the newly arising parasite-host interactions. In European seas, the intestinal copepod Mytilicola orientalis was co-introduced with Pacific oysters (Magallana gigas) and spilled over to native blue mu...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Goedknegt MA,Shoesmith D,Jung AS,Luttikhuizen PC,van der Meer J,Philippart CJM,van der Veer HW,Thieltges DW

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intact, viable adults, infective and newborn larvae of Trichinella pseudospiralis were surface labelled with 125I by the chloramine T method and labelled proteins were compared with those obtained from equivalent stages of T. spiralis. Electron-microscope autoradiography determined that labelled proteins were restrict...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Almond NM,McLaren DJ,Parkhouse RM

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biochemical characterization of 137 Leishmania braziliensis isolates from South and Central America, and from selected endemic foci in Bolivia, Brazil and Colombia, performed by isoenzymatic electrophoresis using 10 enzymatic systems, showed a high enzymatic polymorphism (44 zymodemes obtained) based on the variation ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Chouicha N,Lanotte G,Pratlong F,Cuba Cuba CA,Velez ID,Dedet JP

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies against the retrovirus envelope glycoprotein (gp70) of mouse xenotropic retrovirus, BALB virus 2 (Bv2) reacted with the adult worms of Schistosoma japonicum and S. mansoni. This reaction was completely inhibited after adsorption of the antibodies with virions of retrovirus. The reactive schistosome antigen ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Tanaka M,Iwamura Y,Amanuma H,Irie Y,Watanabe M,Watanabe T,Uchiyama Y,Yasuraoka K

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments were carried out in which calves reared parasite-free were infected with a single dose of 3rd-stage larvae of Cooperia oncophora. In the first experiment the calves received 20 000 or 200 000 infective larvae and they were autopsied 28 or 56 days after the infection. In the second experiment the doses ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Borgsteede FH,Hendriks J

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid elimination of the intestinal phase of Trichinella spiralis in NIH mice is associated with progressive inflammation of the intestinal tract. The non-specific effects of this inflammation were studied in mice concurrently infected with an unrelated parasite, Hymenolepis diminuta, which does not stimulate a vi...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Behnke JM,Bland PW,Wakelin D

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood examination by microhaematocrit and haemoculture of 459 snakes belonging to 37 species revealed 2.4% trypanosome prevalence in species of Viperidae (Crotalus durissus and Bothrops jararaca) and Colubridae (Pseudoboa nigra). Trypanosome cultures from C. durissus and P. nigra were behaviourally and morphologically...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Viola LB,Campaner M,Takata CS,Ferreira RC,Rodrigues AC,Freitas RA,Duarte MR,Grego KF,Barrett TV,Camargo EP,Teixeira MM

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichinella spiralis larvae infect and develop within skeletal muscle cells causing major changes to their mechanical properties. The aim of this investigation was to determine the effects of T. spiralis on the power output and fatigue resistance of the mammalian diaphragm under conditions simulating in vivo operation...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Harwood CL,Young IS,Lee DL,Altringham JD

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycans at the surface of adult Schistosoma mansoni were investigated with gold-labelled lectins. The fragile complex of the glycans with the outer membranes could be preserved for electron microscopy by avoiding extensive pre-fixation with aldehydes and by introducing osmium-ferrocyanide as a membrane fixative. Male ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Schmidt J

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Artificially transformed schistosomula of Schistosoma mansoni develop a consistent but small protection against the lethal effects of antibody plus complement when cultured for 24 h in a chemically defined medium. In contrast, they become rapidly resistant to antibody plus complement, when cultured in the presence of ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Tavares CA,Soares RC,Coelho PM,Gazzinelli G

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00