Differentially expressed parasite genes involved in host recognition and invasion of the triactinomyxon stage of Myxobolus cerebralis (Myxozoa).

abstract：:An electron microscopical study was made on the development of Eimeria dispersa in the small intestine of the domestic turkey. Turkey poults, 10-14 days of age, were inoculated with oocysts and pieces of intestinal tissue were fixed at intervals between 3.5 and 114 h after inoculation. Sporozoites were occasionally se...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Millard BJ,Lawn AM

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Planning of the control of Plasmodium falciparum malaria leads to a need for models of malaria epidemiology that provide realistic quantitative prediction of likely epidemiological outcomes of a wide range of control strategies. Predictions of the effects of control often ignore medium- and long-term dynamics. The com...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Smith T,Maire N,Ross A,Penny M,Chitnis N,Schapira A,Studer A,Genton B,Lengeler C,Tediosi F,de Savigny D,Tanner M

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the origin of invasive parasites and ecological transmission barriers on the distribution of mosquito-borne pathogens is enriched by molecular phylogenetic approaches now that large databases are becoming available. Here we assess the biogeographical relationships among haemosporidian blood parasites and...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Baillie SM,Brunton DH

更新日期：2011-12-01 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：:Investigations were carried out into the properties and localization of chitin synthase (EC 2.4.1.16) in connection with the formation of Ascaris suum egg-shells. The chitin synthase of eggs exhibited properties very similar to those found in other chitin-synthesizing organisms. It was stimulated by the presence of AT...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Dubinský P,Rybos M,Turceková L

更新日期：1986-02-01 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：:The understanding of the patterns and processes underlying the structure of parasite communities has progressed significantly in the last years; however, much of the evidence available to date on parasite community comes from unconfirmed studies. In this study the ectoparasite communities of 2 related rockfishes, Seba...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： González MT,Oliva ME

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel tetrahydroquinolinyl ester, quinfamide, administered orally in multiple doses for 3 days had an ED50 of 0.25 mg/kg/day (total dose 0.75 mg/kg) for eradicating Entamoeba criceti in hamsters in several tests. It was significantly more active by direct comparison than 3 commercially available amoebicides and at l...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Slighter RG,Yarinsky A,Drobeck HP,Bailey DM

更新日期：1980-08-01 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：:Intact, viable adults, infective and newborn larvae of Trichinella pseudospiralis were surface labelled with 125I by the chloramine T method and labelled proteins were compared with those obtained from equivalent stages of T. spiralis. Electron-microscope autoradiography determined that labelled proteins were restrict...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Almond NM,McLaren DJ,Parkhouse RM

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity in the bovine lungworm Dictyocaulus viviparus was examined using the xanthine-xanthine oxidase assay system and by non-denaturing PAGE followed by specific enzyme staining. High levels of activity were detected in excretory-secretory (ES) products of adult worms and ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Britton C,Knox DP,Kennedy MW

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple infections, those by more than one parasite in the same erythrocyte, may be adaptive for the malarial parasite as a means to ensure fertility. Alternatively they may simply be the consequence of a non-adaptive process forcing several parasites to compete for resources in one host cell. Avian hosts infected wi...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Martínez-de la Puente J,Merino S,Tomás G,Moreno J,Morales J,Lobato E

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glycolytic enzyme triosephosphate isomerase catalyses the isomerization between glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate and dihydroxyacetone phosphate. Here we report that Trichomonas vaginalis contains 2 fully functional tpi genes. Both genes are located in separated chromosomal context with different promoter regulatory elem...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Figueroa-Angulo EE,Estrella-Hernández P,Salgado-Lugo H,Ochoa-Leyva A,Gómez Puyou A,Campos SS,Montero-Moran G,Ortega-López J,Saab-Rincón G,Arroyo R,Benítez-Cardoza CG,Brieba LG

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The abundance of Profilicollis botulus was monitored in eider ducks for 3 years. No significant difference in P. botulus abundance was found between eiders taken alive and those collected dead from the shore line, or between adult males and adult females. Adult male eiders had a seasonal pattern of infection. Incubati...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Thompson AB

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytoadherence of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes to melanoma cells was analysed using strains or isolates of parasites expressing or not expressing knobs (K+ or K- phenotype) on the erythrocyte surface. Both K+ and K- parasites had the capacity to cytoadhere to melanoma cells. Using a panel of melanoma cel...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Ruangjirachuporn W,Afzelius BA,Paulie S,Wahlgren M,Berzins K,Perlmann P

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii and Sarcocystis neurona are protozoan parasites with terrestrial definitive hosts, and both pathogens can cause fatal disease in a wide range of marine animals. Close monitoring of threatened southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis) in California allowed for the diagnosis of dual transplacental tr...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Shapiro K,Miller MA,Packham AE,Aguilar B,Conrad PA,Vanwormer E,Murray MJ

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to investigate the phenomenon of age-related immunity to visceral leishmaniasis, a 1 year prospective survey was carried out on 5671 people in a Leishmania infantum focus in north-west Iran. The average incidence rate of infection since 1985 was 2.8%/year with all ages equally at risk. One in 13 infections in...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Davies CR,Mazloumi Gavgani AS

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasite transmission can be altered via the removal of parasites by the ambient communities in which parasite-host interactions take place. However, the mechanisms driving parasite removal remain poorly understood. Using marine trematode cercariae as a model system, we investigated the effects of consumer and host bo...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Welsh JE,Hempel A,Markovic M,van der Meer J,Thieltges DW

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrogametogony and the formation of the oocyst wall has been examined in Eimeria acervulina. Macrogametes develop within a parasitophorous vacuole. Within the cytoplasm can be observed wall-forming bodies of Type I (WFBI) and Type II (WFBII), a nucleus, mitochondria, canaliculi and polysaccharide granules. WFBII are ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Pittilo RM,Ball SJ

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequence of appearance of specific lytic activity against more than 20 variable antigen types (VATs) of Trypanosoma vivax in the serum of 27 animals belonging to 5 species has been examined. For each host species there was a characteristic course of infection, with differences in height and duration of parasitaemi...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Barry JD

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many zoonotic disease agents are transmitted between hosts by arthropod vectors, including fleas, but few empirical studies of host-vector-microparasite dynamics have investigated the relative importance of hosts and vectors. This study investigates the dynamics of 4 closely related Bartonella species and their flea v...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Telfer S,Begon M,Bennett M,Bown KJ,Burthe S,Lambin X,Telford G,Birtles R

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endosymbiotic bacteria of the genus Wolbachia infect a number of invertebrate species in which they induce various alterations in host reproduction, mainly cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI). In contrast to most other maternally transmitted parasites, manipulation of host reproduction makes the spread of Wolbachia possi...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Fleury F,Vavre F,Ris N,Fouillet P,Boulétreau M

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Promastigotes of Leishmania braziliensis panamensis absorbed the purines adenine, hypoxanthine, adenosine and inosine by a combination of diffusion and mediated components. When the uptake rates for these substrates were corrected for diffusion and compared, the purine bases adenine and hypoxanthine were transported a...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Hansen BD,Perez-Arbelo J,Walkony JF,Hendricks LD

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA extracted from purified parasites of Plasmodium knowlesi was fractionated using agarose gel electrophoresis. Preparations from para sites grown both in vivo and in vitro contained species of RNA with sedimentation coefficients of 4-0S, 5-0S, 16-6S, 24-2S, 31-4S, 38-0S and 48-3S. There was less RNA present in paras...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Trigg PI,Shakespeare PG,Burt SJ,Kyd SI

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of BALB/c or MF1 mice with cyclosporin A (CsA) around the time of infection with Schistosoma mansoni conferred almost complete protection. The migration kinetics of L-[75Se]selenomethionine-labelled infective cercariae were investigated by compressed tissue autoradiography. Similar levels of skin penetration...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Munro GH,Brannan LR,Chappell LH,Thomson AW,McLaren DJ

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular protozoan parasite. The objective of the present study was to examine the behaviour of Toxoplasma gondii RH Ankara strain tachyzoites in a cell culture environment. The study represents the first step in determining whether T. gondii RH Ankara strain tachyzoites, grown in...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Döskaya M,Degirmenci A,Ciçek C,Ak M,Korkmaz M,Gürüz Y,Uner A

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sex ratio of adult worms has been observed biased towards males in Schistosoma mansoni under natural conditions. The origin of this bias is unknown. This paper determines whether males are more infective than females under controlled experimental bisexual conditions, and hence if the sex ratio is male-biased as a ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Boissier J,Moné H

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ticks are of vast medical and veterinary public health importance due to direct damage caused by feeding and their roles in transmitting well known and emerging infectious agents. Ticks and tick-borne pathogens stimulate the immune system of the host. Those immune interactions are of importance in tick biology, pathog...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Brossard M,Wikel SK

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight major reviews are cited to indicate a recent knowledge explosion on the use of marine parasites as potential indicators of pollution. A literature update is given for the period 1995-2001. An analysis of the publications cited is used to provide 10 refined criteria for selecting parasites as indicator/monitor sp...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Williams HH,MacKenzie K

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The twin concepts of zooprophylaxis and the dilution effect originated with vector-borne diseases (malaria), were driven forward by studies on Lyme borreliosis and have now developed into the mantra "biodiversity protects against disease". The basic idea is that by diluting the assemblage of transmission-competent hos...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Randolph SE,Dobson AD

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00