Occurrence and molecular characterization of Giardia duodenalis in lambs in Djelfa, the central steppe of Algeria.

abstract：:Cysticercoids as well as 6-, 10-, and 14-day Hymenolepis diminuta were evaluated in terms of enzymatic activities related to phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) utilization and mitochondrial succinate accumulation. The data obtained support a transition toward anaerobic electron-transport-dependent succinate accumulation, chara...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Fioravanti CF,Walker DJ,Sandhu PS

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helminths are one of the major health problems of working donkeys, often with heavy worm burden and contributing to their early demise and/or reduction in their work output. Cross-sectional and longitudinal studies were conducted to investigate the current infection prevalence and level of strongyles infection donkeys...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Dibaba MD,Getachew AM,Assefa Z,Fanta A,Etana M,Firew S,Goshu L,Burden F

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The experimental study investigated the ability of tortoise tick Hyalomma aegyptium to play a role in forming and maintaining natural foci of Q fever. We tested the competence of H. aegyptium larvae to acquire Coxiella burnetii infection from mammals, serve as a C. burnetii vector between mammalian hosts, and be a lon...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Siroký P,Kubelová M,Modrý D,Erhart J,Literák I,Spitalská E,Kocianová E

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The C57BL/6J strain of Mus musculus is susceptible to the terrestrial trematode Brachylaima cribbi. The duration of infection in these mice is generally 9-12 weeks with a peak excretion of eggs at 4 weeks post-infection (wpi). The effects of age and sex on the course of infection were investigated by comparing infecti...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Butcher AR,Palethorpe HM,Grove DI

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monosaccharides, lectins, periodate, trypsin and neuraminidase were used to analyse the process of adhesion of Giardia duodenalis trophozoites to IEC cells, an intestinal epithelial cell line. Addition of N-acetyl-glucosamine, N-acetyl-galactosamine, galactose and fucose to the interaction medium inhibited attachment ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Pegado MG,de Souza W

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this study were to evaluate the occurrence of Leishmania infantum in the male and female genital tract and female mammary glands of dogs and the parasite burden and to identify histological alterations associated with this protozoan. Twenty male and 20 female Leishmania-seropositive dogs with isolati...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Boechat VC,Mendes Junior AA,Madeira Mde F,Ferreira LC,Figueiredo FB,Rodrigues Fd,Oliveira Vda C,de Oliveira Rde V,Menezes RC

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In several studies, different antigenic preparations and diverse immunological tests were applied for serodiagnosis of Fasciola hepatica infections. Most of these preparations showed cross-reactivity with proteins of other parasites. Application of purified antigens might reduce these cross-reactivities. Here, we used...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Mokhtarian K,Akhlaghi L,Meamar AR,Razmjou E,Manouchehri Naeini K,Gholami S,Najafi Samei M,Falak R

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over a 4-year period, we analyzed 128 fecal samples from free-living elk (Alces alces L., 1758) to determine the prevalence of Eimeria infections and identify the species present. Two eimerian species were isolated including Eimeria alces and a morphotype resembling Eimeria catubrina. Overall, two samples from 128 sam...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Pyziel AM,Demiaszkiewicz AW

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of parasites on host population dynamics depends on local abundance of the parasites, which may vary considerably across spatial scales. In sand hopper populations, mermithid parasites have major impacts on host dynamics, which may vary among spatially separated populations due to the sand hopper's wide, pa...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Rasmussen TK,Randhawa HS

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to identify novel therapeutic alternatives for the treatment of malaria, the present study evaluated the antimalarial effect of the crude hydroalcoholic extract (HCE) from the leaves of Chenopodium ambrosioides L. For this purpose, the molecular affinity between the total proteins from erythrocytes infect...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Cysne DN,Fortes TS,Reis AS,de Paulo Ribeiro B,Dos Santos Ferreira A,do Amaral FM,Guerra RN,Marinho CR,Nicolete R,Nascimento FR

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Litomosoides chagasfilhoi is a filariid nematode parasite of the abdominal cavity of the wild rodent Akodon cursor (Winge, 1887), that has been described and used in Brazil as a new model for human filariasis. The fine structure of the intestine of this nematode was analyzed based on observations made by light and tra...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： de Moraes Neto AH,Cunha GS,Ferreira TF,de Carvalho SN,Guimarães EV,de Souza W

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasmosis represents an important public health issue, with the consumption of raw or undercooked meat being a major way of human infection. The role of beef in the transmission of the parasite to humans is questioned due to lower quantity of tissue cysts compared with other meat-producing species. However, the ha...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Gazzonis AL,Marino AMF,Garippa G,Rossi L,Mignone W,Dini V,Giunta RP,Luini M,Villa L,Zanzani SA,Manfredi MT

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors recognized a mistake in Abstract and in the Discussion section. ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Possamai CO,Loss AC,Costa AO,Falqueto A,Furst C

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the first report of cryptosporidiosis in a bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus) in China. Two Cryptosporidium isolates derived from the same bactrian camel (3-year-old) in November 2005 and April 2006 were characterized using sequence and phylogenetic analysis of the small-subunit rRNA (18S rRNA), 70-kDa heat s...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Wang R,Zhang L,Ning C,Feng Y,Jian F,Xiao L,Lu B,Ai W,Dong H

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allicin is an active ingredient of garlic that has antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, and antiprotozoal activity. However, the inhibitory effects of allicin on Babesia parasites have not yet been examined. In the present study, allicin was tested as a potent inhibitor against the in vitro growth of bovine and equin...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Salama AA,AbouLaila M,Terkawi MA,Mousa A,El-Sify A,Allaam M,Zaghawa A,Yokoyama N,Igarashi I

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay has turned out to be one of the most potential tools for diagnosis of schistosomiasis. However, the source and metabolic dynamics of Schistosoma japonicum DNA in the blood of hosts is not clear. In this study, rabbit models with monosexual and mixed sexual cercariae infection ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Xu J,Liu AP,Guo JJ,Wang B,Qiu SJ,Sun H,Guan W,Zhu XQ,Xia CM,Wu ZD

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the study was to estimate the prevalence of helminths in the horse population of the state of Brandenburg, Germany. One hundred and twenty-six horse farms in the state were selected by randomised stratified sampling. In total, 1,407 horses across all farms were examined coproscopically. The experiment...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Hinney B,Wirtherle NC,Kyule M,Miethe N,Zessin KH,Clausen PH

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The platynosomiasis, a worldwide parasitic disease with importance for domestic cat, has an etiological agent species of trematodes of the genus Platynosomum, whose complete life cycles are not yet known. The real role of lizards in the transmission of this dicrocoeliid parasite (as obligatory intermediate or parateni...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Pinto HA,Mati VL,de Melo AL

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：: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：: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：:The G-Protein-coupled receptor Hc110-R of Haemonchus contortus and its orthologue in Caenorhabditis elegans, the latrophilin-like protein 1 (LAT-1), were shown to play a role in the mode of action of the new anthelmintic compound emodepside. C. elegans LAT-1 knockout mutants showed a decreased paralysing effect of emo...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Krüger N,Harder A,von Samson-Himmelstjerna G

更新日期：2009-08-01 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：:In vitro leucocyte proliferative responses to parasite antigens and to mitogens as well as lymphocyte sub-types were compared in guinea pigs with genetically determined differences in their ability to express protective immunity against Trichostronylus colubriformis infection. Proliferative responses to parasite antig...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Manjili MH,Sangster NC,Rothwell TL

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The round goby Neogobius melanostomus is a bottom-dwelling fish native for the Ponto-Caspian basin, which started to colonize the Baltic Sea since 1991. The parasites of this fish species in the southwestern Baltic region are studied for the first time. The round goby in the SW Baltic Sea was infected with 12 parasite...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Kvach Y,Winkler HM

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasmosis is a disease with a worldwide distribution that affects a wide variety of animal species, though with rare descriptions in chickens. We describe the clinical, epidemiological, pathological, and molecular aspects of a toxoplasmosis outbreak in domestic chickens and guinea fowl in southern Brazil. The floc...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Vielmo A,Pena HFJ,Panziera W,Bianchi RM,De Lorenzo C,Oliveira S,Alves BF,Gennari SM,Pavarini SP,de Barros CSL,Driemeier D

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anopheles (Cellia) stephensi Liston 1901 is one of the major malaria vectors in the Indian subcontinent, Iran, and the Middle East. Three races in this species, namely A. stephensi stephensi (type form), A. stephensi variety mysorensis, and A. stephensi intermediate form, have earlier been reported by several investig...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Alam MT,Bora H,Das MK,Sharma YD

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dermanyssus gallinae (Acari: Mesostigmata) is the most important hematophagous ectoparasite in layer farms in many countries. The reproduction rate of the parasite is rapid and can be completed in a week under favorable conditions. The parasite has direct and indirect effects on birds. It can also act as a vector for ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Faghihzadeh Gorji S,Faghihzadeh Gorji S,Rajabloo M

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While Gobioidei comprises showcases of (adaptive) radiation, the scientific interest they yielded did not ensure full understanding of goby biodiversity. Even in a well-studied region like Europe, wide knowledge gaps remain. Sand gobies represent one of the few clades whose monogenean parasites have been thoroughly st...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Vanhove MP,Economou AN,Zogaris S,Giakoumi S,Zanella D,Volckaert FA,Huyse T

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maturation of trematode larval stages is expected to be temporally and spatially adapted to maximise the encounter with the adequate downstream host, i.e. the host, which will be infected by this parasite stage. Since studies on intramolluscan parasite maturation are scarce but important in the context of parasite tra...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Born-Torrijos A,Raga JA,Holzer AS

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00