Alien parasites on an alien fish species: monogeneans from the black bullhead Ameiurus melas (Siluriformes) in the Lake Srebarna Biosphere Reserve, Bulgaria, with the first record of Gyrodactylus nebulosus in the Palaearctic.

abstract：:Neodiplostomum seoulense (Digenea: Neodiplostomidae), an intestinal trematode infecting humans and rodents, is known to be highly pathogenic and lethal to experimentally infected mice. Only a small proportion of mice can survive from its infection. This study aimed to assess the reproductive capacity of surviving BALB...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Shin EH,Im TK,Park YK,Cho J,Kim JL,Chai JY

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Culicinomyces clavisporus is a fungal pathogen of a wide range of mosquito larvae. The C. clavisporus was isolated from the larvae of Culiseta inornata. We have investigated into potential pathogenicity against the adults of Culex quinquefasciatus, Aedes aegypti and Anopheles stephensi. The culture filtrates relea...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Singh G,Prakash S

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrastructural changes of gastritis due to infection with Physaloptera clausa in 12 fresh carcasses of euthanized European hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus) collected from different part of Urmia, Iran, in which they were highly populated with this animal, six females and six males were subjected to detail necropsy wit...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Gorgani-Firouzjaee T,Farshid AA,Naem S

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chagas disease (CD) is a tropical zoonosis caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi. Severe autonomic dysfunction like reduced cardiac catecholamine-containing or acetylcholinesterase-positive innervation have been reported in CD. Renin-angiotensin system (RAS) seems to participate in the regulation of adrenal catech...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Miranda AS,Camargos ERS,Marzano LAS,Marzano ACS,da Silva Oliveira B,Ferreira RN,Martinelli PM,Teixeira AL,Rachid MA,Simões E Silva AC

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Common frogs (Rana temporaria) were exposed either to third-stage larvae (L3) or to first-stage larvae (L1) of Angiostrongylus vasorum. Following exposure to L3, viable larvae could be detected in the frogs for at least 2 weeks. Following exposure to L1, the frogs developed viable L3 in their tissues within 30 days. I...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Bolt G,Monrad J,Frandsen F,Henriksen P,Dietz HH

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In freshwater ecosystems, snails can significantly influence the competition between primary producers through grazing of periphyton. This activity can potentially be modified by trematodes, a large group of parasites which mostly use molluscs as the first intermediate host. Available studies, however, show contradict...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Vivas Muñoz JC,Hilt S,Horák P,Knopf K

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific anti-newborn larva antibodies present in the serum of rats chronically infected with Trichinella spiralis were incapable of inducing killing of newborn larvae by activation of normal peritoneal cells. These late antibodies blocked the cytotoxic reaction induced by early antibodies produced a few weeks after i...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Venturiello SM,Costantino SN,Giambartolomei GH

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A monoclonal antibody raised by immunization of BALB/c mice with erythrocytic stages of Plasmodium vivax was shown to react with asexual erythrocytic stages of P. chabaudi. The cross-reactivity molecules are antigens of 200 and 148 kDa in P. vivax and of 190 and 70 kDa in P. chabaudi. Immunofluorescence studies of the...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Perez HA,Bracho C,Romano M,De la Rosa M

更新日期：1997-01-01 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：:High levels of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH; EC 1. 1. 1. 27) activity have been detected in the filarial worm Molinema dessetae. The two major LDH isoenzymes (LDH1 and LDH2) from female worms were purified by successive chromatography on diethylaminoethyl (DEAE)-Sepharose, carboxymethyl (CM)-Sepharose, and hydroxyapatit...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Marchat L,Loiseau PM,Petek F

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphological abnormalities were observed on the cephalic bulb hooklets of advanced third-stage larvae (AdvL(3)) of genus Gnathostoma. The larvae were obtained from the fish "Mexican rivulus" Millerichthys robustus collected from a seasonal pond near Tlacotalpan, Veracruz, Mexico. The abnormalities involved (1) extra ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Mosqueda-Cabrera MA,Ocampo-Jaimes A

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections of Eimeria tenella in chicken embryos were used to compare the anticoccidial activity of ten drugs. The minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) and minimal toxic concentration (MTC) were affected by the time of inoculation into the embryos and by the chemical nature of the compounds. Some compounds (nicarbaz...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Xie MQ,Fukata T,Gilbert JM,McDougald LR

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigens derived from Echinococcus granulosus, Taenia hydatigena and T. pisiformis cyst fluids, T. solium cysticerci, E. multilocularis protoscoleces and E. vogeli cyst membranes were examined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and immunoelectrophoresis (IEP) using four monoclonal antibodies (mAb) to E. gran...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Liu D,Rickard MD,Lightowlers MW

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Snake venom can affect the growth of Trypanosoma cruzi and Leishmania spp. As new classes of therapeutic drugs against protozoan parasites could be derived from snake venom, alterations in the ultrastructure and growth of the epimastigotes, trypomastigotes and amastigotes of T. cruzi, as well as the promastigotes of L...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Gonçalves AR,Soares MJ,de Souza W,DaMatta RA,Alves EW

更新日期：2002-07-01 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：:Morphology of capsules surrounding acanthocephalan Corynosoma strumosum in paratenic hosts (sea fishes of three species from the northern part of the Sea of Okhotsk) was studied. A thick layer of glycocalyx is formed on the surface of acanthocephalan's tegument in smelts Osmerus mordax dentex and Hypomesus olidus; the...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Skorobrechova EM,Nikishin VP

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using molecular techniques, we documented the presence of Nosema ceranae in honeybees (Apis mellífera) from Argentina. Samples were collected from A. mellifera colonies in 38 districts of Buenos Aires province, Argentina. Molecular characterization was achieved with a multiplex PCR-based method, which allows parallel ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Medici SK,Sarlo EG,Porrini MP,Braunstein M,Eguaras MJ

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 43 plant substances provided as raw material and different kinds of extracts (aqueous, ethanol, and heptane) from 18 different organic wastes obtained from the food/feed industry were investigated for their in vitro activities against clonal cultures of Histomonas meleagridis, Tetratrichomonas gallinarum, a...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Grabensteiner E,Liebhart D,Arshad N,Hess M

更新日期：2008-11-01 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：:Human toxocariasis may be acquired by eating raw chicken liver. However, there are no reports on the prevalence of natural infection of chickens with Toxocara. The aim of this study was to evaluate the presence of anti-Toxocara antibodies as indicators of natural infection with Toxocara, in free-range chickens from Es...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Campos-da-Silva DR,da Paz JS,Fortunato VR,Beltrame MA,Valli LC,Pereira FE

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saliva has been suggested as an easily accessible and a noninvasive diagnostic alternative for detection of antibodies. To identify and characterize Schistosoma japonicum (S. japonicum) antigens that are recognized by saliva of infected host, we have used a pool of saliva from infected patients to immunoscreen an egg ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Zhou YP,Wu ZD,Yang LL,Sun X,You X,Yu XB,Hu W,Zheng HQ,Lv ZY

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence data of Leishmania infantum infection in cats are characterized by a large variability mainly attributed to the differences in diagnostic techniques. In the absence of consensus about the method of choice for diagnosing feline leishmaniosis, the performance of a new immunofluorescence antibody test (IFA...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Iatta R,Trerotoli P,Lucchese L,Natale A,Buonavoglia C,Nachum-Biala Y,Baneth G,Otranto D

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 116 samples (44 clinical specimens and 72 environmental samples) have been analyzed for the presence of Acanthamoeba. The environmental samples (ESs) were collected from four drinking water treatment plants (DWTP, n=32), seven wastewater treatment plants (n=28), and six locations of influence (n=12) on four...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Magnet A,Galván AL,Fenoy S,Izquierdo F,Rueda C,Fernandez Vadillo C,Pérez-Irezábal J,Bandyopadhyay K,Visvesvara GS,da Silva AJ,del Aguila C

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy-five previously frozen Northern Lapwings, Vanellus vanellus (Linnaeus, 1758) were dissected and examined for trematodes. The available birds were euthanized after suffering severe injuries from a hail storm. Trematode specimens were found in the air sacs, body cavities and kidneys. They were cleared, stained i...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Hintzen J,Thielebein J,Daugschies A,Schmäschke R

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The published data concerning Toxoplasma gondii, Hammondia hammondi, H. heydorni and Neospora caninum on one side and between T. gondii on the other were neglected by most authors. As conclusion we are convinced that there are only two valid species: Isospora (Toxoplasma) gondii and Hammondia heydorni. The first inclu...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Mehlhorn H,Heydorn AO

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two species of Babesia were isolated from naturally infected sheep in the eastern part of Gansu province. One of the species was identified as B. ovis, while the another one seems as yet to be an unidentified Babesia species. The latter could be transmitted transovarially by Haemaphysalis longicornis. It was shown tha...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Bai Q,Liu G,Liu D,Ren J,Li X

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No fully effective treatment has been developed since the discovery of Chagas' disease. Since drug-resistant Trypanosoma cruzi strains are occurring and the current therapy is effective in the acute phase but with various adverse side effects, more studies are needed to characterize the susceptibility of T. cruzi to n...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Andrade e Silva ML,Cicarelli RM,Pauletti PM,Luz PP,Rezende KC,Januário AH,da Silva R,Pereira AC,Bastos JK,de Albuquerque S,Magalhães LG,Cunha WR

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we have tested the effect of different polyamine inhibitors of the spermidine metabolizing enzymes deoxyhypusine synthase and homospermidine synthase in different chloroquine resistant Plasmodium falciparum strains, in the mosquito Anopheles stephensi (Diptera: Culicidae) and in a Trypanosoma eva...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Moritz E,Seidensticker S,Gottwald A,Maier W,Hoerauf A,Njuguna JT,Kaiser A

更新日期：2004-09-01 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 seasonal dynamics of Gyrodactylus rhodei, a monogenean ectoparasite of bitterling (Rhodeus sericeus), was studied from June 2000 to May 2001 in the Kyjovka River, Czech Republic. A negative relationship between prevalence and intensity of infection of G. rhodei and water temperature was found. Metrical variability...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Dávidová M,Jarkovský J,Matejusová I,Gelnar M

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00