Morphological characterization of Cryptosporidium parvum life-cycle stages in an in vitro model system.

abstract：:Although the rumen fluke, Calicophoron daubneyi is now very common and widespread throughout Western Europe, reports of clinical cases are still rare. This study explores the epidemiological background to a severe rumen fluke outbreak in 6-month-old heifers on a dairy farm in Ireland. Sequence analysis of the cytochro...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： O'Shaughnessy J,Garcia-Campos A,McAloon CG,Fagan S,de Waal T,McElroy M,Casey M,Good B,Mulcahy G,Fagan J,Murphy D,Zintl A

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA barcoding is now a common tool in parasitology and epidemiology, which require good methods for identification not only of parasites and pathogens but vectors and reservoirs. This special issue presents some advances and challenges in barcoding of microbes, parasites, and their vectors and reservoirs. DNA barcodin...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Morand S

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizont-infected red blood cells (SI-RBC) from Plasmodium berghei-infected mice contain between 2 and 10 times as much sialic acid as uninfected RBC from the same blood (99-550 micrograms/10(10) RBC versus 33-65 micrograms/10(10) RBC). Total RBC samples from infected animals containing up to 63% ring- and trophozoite...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Howard RJ,Seeley DC Jr,Kao V,Wember M,Schauer R

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Merocyanin 540 (Mc540) is a fluorescent compound which is thought to bind to membranes in which there are substantial amounts of lipid in the lipid-crystalline phase. It is shown here to be of value in detecting the transformation by both mechanical and skin-penetration methods of the cercaria to the schistosomulum. T...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Foley M,Kusel JR,Garland PB

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The free radical nitric oxide (NO) is a neuronal messenger which is synthesized from L-arginine and O2 by nitric oxide synthase (NOS). In the synthesis NO and L-citrulline are produced in a stoichiometric 1:1 relation. The activity of NOS was analysed in homogenates of the rat tapeworm Hymenolepis diminuta by measurin...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Terenina NB,Onufriev MV,Gulyaeva NV,Lindholm AM,Gustafsson MK

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the phylum Microspora are a group of unusual, obligate intracellular eukaryotic parasites that infect a wide range of hosts. However, there are a limited number of microsporidial infections reported in avian hosts, and no parasite species has been defined as an avian pathogen. A microsporidian organism was ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Snowden KF,Logan K,Phalen DN

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species composition of wild reservoir hosts can influence the transmission and maintenance of multi-host vector borne pathogens. The 'pace of life' hypothesis proposes that the life history strategy of reservoir hosts can influence pathogen transmission of vector borne generalist pathogens. We use empirical data to pa...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Erazo D,Cordovez J,Cabrera C,Calzada JE,Saldaña A,Gottdenker NL

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative importance of temporal and spatial effects was assessed in helminth communities of bank voles (Myodes glareolus) in 3 woodland sites in N.E. Poland in the late summers of 1999 and 2002. Among common species the rank order of sites in relation to prevalence and abundance of infection was maintained between...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Behnke JM,Bajer A,Harris PD,Newington L,Pidgeon E,Rowlands G,Sheriff C,Kuliś-Malkowska K,Siński E,Gilbert FS,Barnard CJ

更新日期：2008-07-01 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：:The behavioural responses of Onchocerca lienalis microfilariae (mf) to tissue factors of the surrogate black fly host, Simulium vittatum, were studied using a novel in vitro bioassay. Mf accumulated towards thoracic tissues to a density 4 times higher than towards abdominal tissues, despite the larger surface area and...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Lehmann T,Cupp SM,Cupp WE

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following cloning of Leishmania (L.) amazonensis kinetoplast DNA two recombinant clones were identified: one specific for L. (L.) amazonensis and the other specific for L. (L.) amazonensis and closely related isolates. DNA sequences from these clones were compared with those of other kinetoplastids and oligonucleotide...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Eresh S,McCallum SM,Barker DC

更新日期：1994-11-01 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

abstract：:A number of authors have demonstrated that the schistosomicidal compound, Praziquantel (Pzq), depends for its action upon the immune status of the host (Sabah et al. 1985; Brindley & Sher, 1987; Doenhoff et al. 1987). We have attempted to define the synergistic interaction between immuno- and chemotherapy further, usi...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Piper KP,Mott RF,Hockley DJ,McLaren DJ

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a laboratory model using Eimeria falciformis and E. pragensis to investigate some of the interactions in double-species infections of Eimeria. Mice were given trickle infections by oral inoculation of 100 sporulated oocysts of one species at 3 or 4 day intervals throughout the experiments and, once immunit...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Shehu K,Nowell F

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genomes of more than 20 helminths have now been sequenced. Here we perform a meta-analysis of all sequenced genomes of nematodes and Platyhelminthes, and attempt to address the question of what are the defining characteristics of helminth genomes. We find that parasitic worms lack systems for surface antigenic var...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Zarowiecki M,Berriman M

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acanthocephalan parasite, Polymorphus minutus, manipulates its intermediate hosts' (gammarids) behaviour, presumably to facilitate its transmission to the definitive hosts. A fundamental question is whether this capability has evolved to target gammarids in general, or specifically sympatric gammarids. We assessed...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Farahani S,Palsbøll PJ,Pen I,Komdeur J

更新日期：2020-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Nematodes are amongst the most successful and abundant organisms on the planet with approximately 30 000 species described, although the actual number of species is estimated to be one million or more. Despite sharing a relatively simple and invariant body plan, there is considerable diversity within the phylum. Nemat...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Gillan V,Devaney E

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depending on the extent of evolutionary divergence among parent taxa, hybrids may suffer from a breakdown of co-adapted genes or may conversely exhibit vigour due to the heterosis effect, which confers advantages to increased genetic diversity. That last mechanism could explain the success of hybrids when hybridizatio...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Planade B,Lena JP,Li H,Plenet S,Guegan JF,Thomas F,Hurtrez-Bousses S,Renaud F,Joly P

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome sequencing has greatly contributed to our understanding of parasitic protozoa. This is particularly the case for Cryptosporidium species (phylum Apicomplexa) which are difficult to propagate. Because of their polymorphic nature, simple sequence repeats have been used extensively as genotypic markers to differen...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Widmer G

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to shared characteristics with snail haemocytes, the Biomphalaria glabrata embryonic (Bge) cell line has been used as a model in vitro system for the study of snail-trematode interactions. In this study, Bge cells were used to characterize the adherence of snail host cells to schistosome primary sporocysts, and to...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Castillo MG,Yoshino TP

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gastrointestinal nematodes (GIN) stand out as an important cause of disease in small ruminant, especially on goat farm. Widespread resistance to synthetic anthelminthics has stimulated the research for alternative strategies of parasite control, including the use of medicinal plants. The present work summarizes th...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Oliveira Santos F,Ponce Morais Cerqueira A,Branco A,José Moreira Batatinha M,Borges Botura M

更新日期：2019-09-01 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：:Parasitoids are parasites that invariably kill their host. Polydnaviruses are injected by parasitoid wasps into the body cavity of their insect host and cause immunosuppression, allowing the parasitoid to develop in the absence of encapsulation. One of the targets of the polydnaviruses are the haemocytes of the host, ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Beckage NE

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In areas where malaria is endemic, helminthic infections, caused by intestinal or filarial parasites, commonly coexist with malaria in the same individual. This study investigates the course of Plasmodium berghei malaria infection in CBA/J mice inoculated with irradiated attenuated 3rd-stage larvae (L3) of Brugia paha...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Yan Y,Inuo G,Akao N,Tsukidate S,Fujita K

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unsporulated oocysts were recovered from the allantoic cavity of 5 chicken embryos inoculated with a single sporozoite of Eimeria tenella; some of these oocysts sporulated. Both macrogametes and microgametes are required for the formation of viable oocysts. The results conclusively demonstrate the bisexual nature of t...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Shirley MW,Millard BJ

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vesiculated protoscoleces (VP) were produced by culturing freshly collected protoscoleces from Echinococcus granulosus horse liver hydatids in RPMI 1640 monophasic medium at 37 degrees C for 18 days. Half of the VP were used as such, the other half used after killing them by freeze-thawing. Nine-day-old chicken heart ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Janssen D,De Rycke PH,De Ridder L

更新日期：1990-06-01 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：:Eukaryotic 5S rRNA, synthesized by RNA polymerase III (Pol III), is an essential component of the large ribosomal subunit. Most organisms contain hundreds of 5S rRNA genes organized into tandem arrays. However, the genome of the protozoan parasite Leishmania major contains only 11 copies of the 5S rRNA gene, which are...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Moreno-Campos R,Florencio-Martínez LE,Nepomuceno-Mejía T,Rojas-Sánchez S,Vélez-Ramírez DE,Padilla-Mejía NE,Figueroa-Angulo E,Manning-Cela R,Martínez-Calvillo S

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ultrastructure of the seminal vesicle, ejaculatory duct, cirrus sac and cirrus is described. The epithelium of the seminal vesicle consists of a single layer of squamous to cuboidal cells. The apical ends of the cells have thin polymorphic lamellae and long narrow pits, both of which enclose normal spermatozoa. Th...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Threadgold LT

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neospora caninum is the causative agent of bovine neosporosis. A N. caninum cytoplasmic dynein LC8 light chain (NcDYNLL) protein was characterized in this study. Cytoplasmic dyneins, including DYNLLs, belong to the microtubule minus-end-directed motor proteins and are involved in many cellular processes. Previous micr...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Cao L,Fetterer R,Qu G,Zhang X,Tuo W

更新日期：2018-12-18 00:00:00