Infection success of different trematode genotypes in two alternative intermediate hosts: evidence for intraspecific specialization?

abstract：:Human cysticercosis is a public health problem caused by Taenia solium metacestodes; thus, eradication of T. solium transmission by vaccination is an urgent requirement. The Cc48 mimotope from T. solium cysticerci was tested expressed in phage particles (mCc48) and chemically synthesized (sCc48) as a vaccine candidate...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Manhani MN,Tilelli CQ,Ribeiro VDS,Goulart LR,Costa-Cruz JM

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solid experimental evidence indicates that EBA-175 is used as a ligand by the Plasmodium falciparum merozoite to bind to human RBC, via different binding processing fragments. Using synthetic peptides and specific receptor-ligand interaction methodology, we have identified 6 high-activity binding sequences from the EB...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Rodriguez LE,Urquiza M,Ocampo M,Suarez J,Curtidor H,Guzman F,Vargas LE,Triviños M,Rosas M,Patarroyo ME

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) are a major tool to control malaria. Over recent years increased ITN coverage has been associated with decreased malaria transmission. However, ITN 'misuse' has been increasingly reported and whether this emergent behaviour poses a threat to successful malaria control and elimination is...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Honjo K,Chaves LF,Satake A,Kaneko A,Minakawa N

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A metabolic pathway known as the mannitol cycle has been identified in Eimerian parasites. The pathway is a shunt off of the glycolytic pathway at fructose-6-phosphate (F6P). Two enzymes convert F6P to mannitol and two other enzymes are responsible for converting mannitol back to F6P when it is utilized. Although the ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Schmatz DM

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epicontinental fauna of the Iberian Peninsula is strongly influenced by its geographical history. As the possibilities for dispersion of organisms into and from this region were (and still are) limited, the local fauna consists almost exclusively of endemic species. Almost all Iberian freshwater fishes of the fami...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Benovics M,Desdevises Y,Šanda R,Vukić J,Scheifler M,Doadrio I,Sousa-Santos C,Šimková A

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lung schistosomulum of Schistosoma mansoni is the target of protective immunity in mice singly vaccinated with irradiated cercariae. Since the effector responses are T cell-mediated, their initiation requires the release of antigens from the intact parasite. We have used the technique of biosynthetic labelling wit...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Harrop R,Wilson RA

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dr David Livingstone died on May 1st 1873. He was 60 years old and had spent much of the previous 30 years walking across large stretches of Southern Africa, exploring the terrain he hoped could provide new environments in which Europeans and Africans could cohabit on equal terms and bring prosperity to a part of the ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Barrett MP,Giordani F

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mathematical model of the transmission dynamics of Cowdria ruminantium by the ixodid tick Amblyomma hebraeum in the bovine host is developed and used to investigate the epidemiology of heartwater across a range of vector challenge. The processes described are supported by empirical data. The pattern of outcome measu...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： O'Callaghan CJ,Medley GF,Peter TF,Perry BD

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aiming to further characterize the haemocyte subsets in Biomphalaria snails, we have performed a detailed flow cytometric analysis of whole haemolymph cellular components using a multiparametric dual colour labelling procedure. Ethidium bromide/acridine orange fluorescence features were used to first select viable hae...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Martins-Souza RL,Pereira CA,Coelho PM,Martins-Filho OA,Negrão-Corrêa D

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidemiological and ecological processes which govern the success of multiple-species co-infections are as yet unresolved. Here we investigated prior versus late residency within hosts, meaning which parasite contacts the host first, to determine if the outcomes of intra-host competition are altered. We infected a...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Lohr JN,Yin M,Wolinska J

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased permeability of capillaries and venules, labelled with colloidal carbon, was observed in the superficial mucosa of the small intestine of sheep infected with Trichostrongylus colubriformis. The labelled vessels were restricted to infected portions of the gut, and the intensity of labelling appeared to be re...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Barker IK

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hymenolepis microstoma from secondary infections in mice were found to grow initially more slowly than H. microstoma from primary infections. Eventually a similar rate of growth was attained by both kinds of worm. After transplantation, young worms (less than or equal to 4 days old) grew more slowly in previously infe...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Howard RJ

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amitochondriate parasitic protist Trichomonas vaginalis can utilize either glucose or maltose as carbon and energy source. The mechanisms of maltose utilization were explored with uptake experiments using radio-isotope labelled maltose in combination with the silicone-oil centrifugation technique and enzymatic ass...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： ter Kuile BH,Müller M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of parasites as biological tags to discriminate among marine fish stocks has become a widely accepted method in fisheries management. Here, we first link this approach to its unstated ecological foundation, the decay in the similarity of the species composition of assemblages as a function of increasing distan...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Poulin R,Kamiya T

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An endemic transmission cycle of Babesia microti was discovered in Colorado in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. B. microti were found by PCR in 4 of 25 Ixodes spinipalpis tick pools tested (a 3.2 % minimum infection rate) and in 87% (13 of 15) of Microtus ochrogaster (the prairie vole) spleen and blood samples. U...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Burkot TR,Schneider BS,Pieniazek NJ,Happ CM,Rutherford JS,Slemenda SB,Hoffmeister E,Maupin GO,Zeidner NS

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the pattern of infection and the inter-annual variation and individual factors affecting the infection of 2 species of nasopharyngeal bot flies, Cephenemyia auribarbis and Pharyngomyia picta (Diptera: Oestridae), in a population of Iberian red deer (Cervus elaphus hispanicus) from south central Spain (10 an...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Vicente J,Fierro Y,Martínez M,Gortázar C

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stability of trichostrogylid populations indicates that some form of density-dependent regulation occurs which could act through fecundity. We present evidence for intraspecific density-dependent effects in 1 of 2, dominant, abomasal nematodes species (Ostertagia gruehneri) of Svalbard reindeer (Rangifer tarandus plat...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Irvine RJ,Stien A,Dallas JF,Halvorsen,Langvatn R,Albon SD

更新日期：2001-06-01 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：:Trypanosoma cruzi, causative agent of Chagas disease, co-infects its triatomine vector with its sister species Trypanosoma rangeli, which shares 60% of its antigens with T. cruzi. Additionally, T. rangeli has been observed to be pathogenic in some of its vector species. Although T. cruzi-T. rangeli co-infections are c...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Peterson JK,Graham AL,Elliott RJ,Dobson AP,Triana Chávez O

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The host-parasite relationship is exquisitely specific. In exploiting the host niche, a variety of helminth parasites have been shown to directly manipulate their hosts' immune responses. We assessed the ability of a whole-worm extract of Hymenolepis diminuta to modulate immune cell activation. Immune cells isolated f...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Wang A,McKay DM

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity of Acanthocheilonema viteae to metabolize fructose was investigated in vitro. In common with other filarial species A. viteae oxidized fructose to lactate but its rate of consumption was only 40% of the glucose-containing control value. Fructose was not incorporated into glycogen. Release of 14CO2 from [U...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Hayes DJ,Carter NS

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Risk factors for the transmission of Echinococcus multilocularis to humans operate at a range of spatial scales. Over a large area, such as China, regional scale risk is correlated with variation in climatic conditions because of its effect on the spatial distribution of landscapes that can support E. multilocularis t...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Danson FM,Graham AJ,Pleydell DR,Campos-Ponce M,Giraudoux P,Craig PS

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete small subunit ribosomal RNA (srRNA) gene of Theileria parva was cloned and sequenced. Two primers were designed which permitted the specific amplification of part of the Theileria srRNA gene from Theileria-infected cell line samples which were predominantly (> 95%) bovine DNA. The sequence of the central ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Allsopp BA,Baylis HA,Allsopp MT,Cavalier-Smith T,Bishop RP,Carrington DM,Sohanpal B,Spooner P

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey was carried out to determine values for the prevalence and intensity of infection of intestinal helminths in children living in Cocle Province, Republic of Panama. The data set consisted of the results of microscopic examinations (modified Kato Katz technique) of stool samples collected in November 1987 from ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Robertson LJ,Crompton DW,Walters DE,Nesheim MC,Sanjur D,Walsh EA

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitellogenin synthesis by the fat body has been monitored using in vitro culture and immunoprecipitation. This system was found to be efficient for measuring vitellogenin production in both non-infected Tenebrio molitor and those infected with Hymenolepis diminuta. In fat bodies from infected beetles, vitellogenin pro...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Webb TJ,Hurd H

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Common bird species were screened during May and June 2007 on Barbados for haemosporidian parasites (Haemosporida) of the genera Haemoproteus and Plasmodium to determine whether the low parasite diversity reported in previous studies might have reflected limited sampling. PCR screening and DNA sequencing revealed a si...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Maria L,Svensson E,Ricklefs RE

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：:Twelve populations of bats were examined to determine the extent of interspecific associations in determining the species richness of intestinal helminth infracommunities. The pool of helminth species which was available to individual bats ranged from 2 to 21. The 'summed binomial' distribution was determined to under...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Lotz JM,Font WF

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discrete typing units (DTUs) of Trypanosoma cruzi that infect domestic dogs and cats have rarely been studied. With this purpose we conducted a cross-sectional xenodiagnostic survey of dog and cat populations residing in 2 infested rural villages in Pampa del Indio, in the humid Argentine Chaco. Parasites were iso...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Enriquez GF,Cardinal MV,Orozco MM,Lanati L,Schijman AG,Gürtler RE

更新日期：2013-03-01 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