Molecular phylogenetic and morphological analysis of haemosporidian parasites (Haemosporida) in a naturally infected European songbird, the blackcap Sylvia atricapilla, with description of Haemoproteus pallidulus sp. nov.

abstract：:Neospora caninum causes economical impact in cattle-raising farms since it is implicated as the major cause of bovine abortions. Although infection by the parasite has been widely described in mammals, the role of birds in its life-cycle is still obscure. Therefore, this work aimed to evaluate the infection by N. cani...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Furuta PI,Mineo TW,Carrasco AO,Godoy GS,Pinto AA,Machado RZ

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested whether the prevalence of ticks can be predicted reliably from a simple epidemiological model that takes into account only mean abundance and its variance. We used data on the abundance and distribution of larvae and nymphs of 2 ixodid ticks parasitic on small mammals (Apodemus agrarius, Apodemus flavicollis...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Stanko M,Krasnov BR,Miklisova D,Morand S

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:Sodium fluoride (NaF) is an anion that has been previously shown to block the moulting process of Ascaris suum larvae. This study describes moulting and development-specific protein expression profiles of A. suum lung-stage L3 (AsLL3) following NaF exposure. AsLL3s cultured in the presence or absence of NaF were prepa...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Islam MK,Miyoshi T,Yamada M,Alim MA,Huang X,Motobu M,Tsuji N

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fine structure of the envelopes surrounding hatched and unhatched oncospheres of Hymenolepis nana has been investigated by transmission and scanning electron microscopy (SEM), together with light microscope histochemical observations of JB-4 embedded material. The oncosphere is surrounded by 3 layers--the capsule,...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Fairweather I,Threadgold LT

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neospora caninum is an Apicomplexan protozoan that has the dog as a definitive host and cattle (among other animals) as intermediate hosts. It causes encephalopathy in dogs and abortion in cows, with significant loss in worldwide livestock. As any Apicomplexan, the parasite invades the cells using proteins contained i...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Pereira LM,Candido-Silva JA,De Vries E,Yatsuda AP

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of metalloprotease activities during metacyclogenesis of a series of strains and clones of Trypanosoma cruzi was investigated using SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis with a range of different co-polymerized proteolytic substrates. A complex pattern of metalloprotease expression, with considerable quant...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Lowndes CM,Bonaldo MC,Thomaz N,Goldenberg S

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The taxonomic status of the haemoproteid parasites hitherto described from the avian genus Passer is reviewed. It is concluded that 1 species only is valid Haemoproteus passeris Kruse (1890), all other species being designated as synonyms. From material obtained from Passer domesticus a re-description is given of H. p...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Peirce MA

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrophoresis of secretions collected from Globodera pallida revealed a smeared region between 25 and 50 kDa, and a single band of < 20 kDa. The secretions were used to raise an antiserum (LW1). Immunoblotting of parasite homogenates with LW1 differentiated G. pallida from its sibling species G. rostochiensis and re...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Duncan LH,Robertson L,Robertson WM,Kusel JR

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Host nutrition plays an important role in determining the development and success of parasitic infections. While studies of vertebrate hosts are accumulating, little is known about how host nutrition affects parasites of invertebrate hosts. Crithidia bombi is a gut trypanosome parasite of the bumble bee, Bombus terres...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Logan A,Ruiz-González MX,Brown MJ

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans and other hosts acquire Toxoplasma gondii infection by ingesting tissue cysts in undercooked meat, or by food or drink contaminated with oocysts. Currently, there is no vaccine to prevent clinical disease due this parasite in humans, although, various T. gondii vaccine candidates are being developed. Mice are g...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Dubey JP,Ferreira LR,Martins J,McLeod R

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The levels of superoxide dismutase (SOD) were determined in detergent-soluble, somatic and excretion-secretion (E-S) preparations from adult Fasciola hepatica using the xanthine oxidase system and visualized in substrate gels. Compared to detergent-soluble and somatic extracts, E-S products showed the highest SOD acti...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Piacenza L,Radi R,Goñi F,Carmona C

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many marine fisheries in South American Atlantic coasts (SAAC) are threatened by overfishing and under serious risk of collapsing. The SAAC comprises a diversity of environments, possesses a complex oceanography and harbours a vast biodiversity that provide an enormous potential for using parasites as biological tags ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Cantatore DM,Timi JT

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The worldwide economic impact of Neospora caninum infection has caused the development of effective vaccines to become one of the main goals in the field of neosporosis research. In this study, the protection conferred by antigens from inactivated whole tachyzoites (TZ) and a tachyzoite-bradyzoite mixture (TZ-BZ) of N...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Rojo-Montejo S,Collantes-Fernández E,Rodríguez-Marcos S,Pérez-Zaballos F,López-Pérez I,Prenafeta A,Ortega-Mora LM

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiplication of virulent and avirulent Leishmania donovani promastigotes was inhibited by brain heart infusion broth (BHI) (3.7%) supplemented with haemolysed or whole blood (2.5-10%) or heat-inactivated foetal bovine serum (HIFBS) (10-20%). Peptone, glutamine, tryptophan, purine bases, ribonucleosides, deoxyribonuc...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kar K

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel repetitive DNA sequence in the sheep parasitic nematode Trichostrongylus colubriformis was cloned and sequenced. A 1.1 kb repetitive sequence (Tc15) which hybridized with DNA from T. colubriformis but not with DNA from two other parasitic nematodes, Haemonchus contortus and Ostertagia circumcincta, or sheep wa...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Callaghan MJ,Beh KJ

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strongyloides ratti is a parasitic nematode of rats. The host immune response against S. ratti affects the development of its free-living generation, favouring the development of free-living adult males and females at the expense of directly developing, infective 3rd-stage larvae. However, how the host immune response...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Crook M,Viney ME

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freshwater snails of the Bulinus forskalii group are one of four Bulinus species complexes responsible for the transmission of schistosomes in Africa and adjacent regions. The species status of these conchologically variable and widely distributed planorbids remains unclear, and parasite compatibility varies considera...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Jones CS,Rollinson D,Mimpfoundi R,Ouma J,Kariuki HC,Noble LR

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response of the plant parasitic nematode, Meloidogyne incognita (J2 stage) to avermectin B2a-23-one is triphasic, comprising an initial loss of locomotor activity where the juveniles remain sensitive to touch, a recovery phase and a final loss of activity where the juveniles are relatively insensitive to touch. In...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Wright DJ,Birtle AJ,Roberts IT

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, through a national programme for schistosomiasis control, this infection has been eliminated from Iran. The aim of this study was to report the process of significant decrease of urogenital schistosomiasis in southwestern Iran. During national programme surveillance for urogenital schistosomiasis cont...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Khademvatan S,Salmanzadeh S,Foroutan-Rad M,Ghomeshi M

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The flatworm nervous system employs a wide repertoire of neuroactive substances, including small chemical messengers, the so called classical transmitters, and several types of neuropeptides. A large body of research accumulated over four decades has provided a wealth of information on the tissue localization and effe...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Ribeiro P,El-Shehabi F,Patocka N

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant ribosomal DNA sequences were amplified by PCR and used as probes to perform a fingerprint analysis of total DNA from different Entamoeba histolytica isolates. RFLPs obtained with one of the probes, R-1, support previous proposals that pathogenic and non-pathogenic E. histolytica are closely related, yet ge...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Cruz-Reyes JA,Spice WM,Rehman T,Gisborne E,Ackers JP

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transmission-blocking monoclonal antibody 13.1, which recognizes the ookinete surface antigen Pbs21 of Plasmodium berghei, and an IgG2a isotype control antibody 26.37 were purified by caprylic acid and ammonium sulphate precipitation. Fab fragments were prepared by papain digestion. IgG but not Fab from antibody 1...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Ranawaka GR,Alejo-Blanco AR,Sinden RE

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated the effectiveness of low doses of benznidazole (BNZ) on continuous administration (BNZc), combined with allopurinol (ALO), in C57BL/6J and C3H/HeN mice infected with Trypanosoma cruzi Nicaragua strain and T. cruzi Sylvio-X10/4 clone. TcN-C57BL/6J was also treated with intermittent doses of BNZ (BN...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Rial MS,Scalise ML,López Alarcón M,Esteva MI,Búa J,Benatar AF,Prado NG,Riarte AR,Fichera LE

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome assemblies can form the basis of comparative analyses fostering insight into the evolutionary genetics of a parasite's pathogenicity, host-pathogen interactions, environmental constraints and invasion biology; however, the length and complexity of many parasite genomes has hampered the development of well-resol...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Thompson PC,Zarlenga DS,Liu MY,Rosenthal BM

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Syphacia stroma (von Linstow, 1884) Morgan, 1932 and Syphacia frederici Roman, 1945 are oxyurid nematodes that parasitize two murid rodents, Apodemus sylvaticus and Apodemus flavicollis, on the European mainland. Only S. stroma has been recorded previously in Apodemus spp. from the British Isles. Despite the paucity o...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Stewart A,Lowe A,Smales L,Bajer A,Bradley J,Dwużnik D,Franssen F,Griffith J,Stuart P,Turner C,Zaleśny G,Behnke JM

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amoebiasis, infection by the protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica, remains a global health problem, despite the availability of effective treatment. While improved sanitation could lead to the eradication of this disease, it is unlikely that this will occur worldwide in the foreseeable future; thus alternative mea...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Stanley SL Jr

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichomonas vaginalis induces cellular damage to the host cells (cytotoxicity) through the proteolytic activity of multiple proteinases of the cysteine type (CPs). Some CPs are modulated by environmental factors such as iron, zinc, polyamines, etc. Thus, the goal of this study was to assess the effect of glucose on T....

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Miranda-Ozuna JFT,Rivera-Rivas LA,Cárdenas-Guerra RE,Hernández-García MS,Rodríguez-Cruz S,González-Robles A,Chavez-Munguía B,Arroyo R

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many different drug-resistant lines of rodent malaria are available as screening models. It is obligatory to screen new compounds for antimalarial activity against a series of resistant lines in order to identify a compound with potential for the treatment of multi-drug resistant (MDR) malaria infections. Instead of u...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Tripathi R,Dhawan S,Dutta GP

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review focuses on some of the more ground-shifting advances of recent decades, particularly those at the molecular and cellular level that illuminate mechanisms underpinning the natural ecology of tick-host-pathogen interactions and the consequent epidemiology of zoonotic infections in humans. Knowledge of compon...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Randolph SE

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00