Alpha 2 giardin is an assemblage A-specific protein of human infective Giardia duodenalis.

abstract：:The pre-feeding and feeding periods of larvae, nymphs and adults of Rhipicephalus appendiculatus on rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) were investigated. Larvae and nymphs required at least 8-9 days after hatching and moulting respectively before they could attach and start feeding, while adults required at least 6-9 day...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Tukahirwa EM

更新日期：1976-02-01 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：:Sporulated oocysts or oocyst hulls of Eimeria acervulina given via the crop, and oocyst juice or sporozoites inoculated directly into the intestinal lumen, were tested for their effects on the hypersensitivity of the intestines of immunized and susceptible birds. Only viable sporozoites consistently caused an increase...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Rose ME,Long PL,Bradley JW

更新日期：1975-12-01 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：:We conducted the first comprehensive study on the spatiotemporal structure of trematode communities in the large-mouthed valve snail, Valvata macrostoma. A total of 1103 snails were examined monthly between May and October 2007 from Lake Konnevesi, Central Finland, from a shallow (1-2 m deep) and an offshore site (5-6...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Faltýnková A,Valtonen ET,Karvonen A

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We estimate the incidence rate, serological conversion rate and basic case reproduction number (R0) of Leishmania infantum from a cohort study of 126 domestic dogs exposed to natural infection rates over 2 years on Marajó Island, Pará State, Brazil. The analysis includes new methods for (1) determining the number of s...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Quinnell RJ,Courtenay O,Garcez L,Dye C

更新日期：1997-08-01 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：:The effects of dietary urea supplementation and of a 10-week trickle infection regime, simulating chronic exposure to Haemonchus contortus, on the zymogenic population of the abomasa of Hampshire Down lambs was examined. At necropsy a variety of parameters including plasma pepsinogen concentration, the wet weights of ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Scott I,Stear MJ,Irvine J,Dick A,Wallace DS,McKellar QA

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiplication of Plasmodium parasites within human erythrocytes is essential to malarial disease. The cell-division cycle of this organism, however, is still poorly understood. In other eukaryotes, various techniques for (apparent) cell-cycle synchronization have been used to shed light on the mechanisms involved in ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Naughton JA,Bell A

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) is present in all stages of the life-cycle of schistosomes and is located in muscle and on the surface of the parasite. Metrifonate is a drug that inhibits AChE. We compared the AChEs from three schistosome species (Schistosoma mansoni, Schistosoma haematobium and Schistosoma bovis) that ha...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Camacho M,Tarrab-Hazdai R,Espinoza B,Arnon R,Agnew A

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review, we envisage the host environment, not as a hostile one, since the schistosome thrives there, but as one in which the relationship between the two organisms consists of constant communication, through signalling mechanisms involving sense organs, surface glycocalyx, surface membrane and internal organs ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kusel JR,Al-Adhami BH,Doenhoff MJ

更新日期：2007-10-01 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 diversity and prevalence of malaria parasites of the genera Plasmodium and Haemoproteus were determined in the globally-threatened Aquatic Warbler Acrocephalus paludicola. Birds were sampled during migration in Portugal and at the wintering quarters in Senegal and parasites were detected using molecular methods. O...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Neto JM,Pérez-Rodríguez A,Haase M,Flade M,Bensch S

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenetic relationships among Trypanosoma rangeli isolates from man, wild mammals and triatomine bugs from widespread geographical origin were inferred by comparison of the small subunit of ribosomal gene sequences. The phylogenetic trees indicated that the subgenus Herpetosoma is polyphyletic and strongly supporte...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Da Silva FM,Noyes H,Campaner M,Junqueira AC,Coura JR,Añez N,Shaw JJ,Stevens JR,Teixeira MM

更新日期：2004-11-01 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：:The occurrence of multiple-clone Plasmodium falciparum haploid blood-stage infections is a pre-requisite for cross-fertilization and genetic exchange at the diploid stage in the mosquito. Using monoclonal antibodies against 3 polymorphic blood-stage antigens, a method of two-colour differential immunofluorescence allo...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Conway DJ,Greenwood BM,McBride JS

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:American trypanosamiasis occurs in nature as a sylvatic cycle, where Trypanosoma cruzi interacts with wild triatomines and mammalian reservoirs, such as marsupials, rodents, armadillos and other animals. Due to difficulties in trying to isolate T. cruzi stocks from the sylvatic cycle, very few studies have been perfor...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Fernandes O,Mangia RH,Lisboa CV,Pinho AP,Morel CM,Zingales B,Campbell DA,Jansen AM

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Giardia lamblia localize and multiply in the small intestine and may cause acute or chronic diarrhoea with malabsorption of fat, protein and other nutrients. Abnormal pancreatic function has been documented in giardiasis and trophozoites directly inhibit pancreatic lipase activity in vitro. The aim of this study was t...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Seow F,Katelaris P,Ngu M

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biozzi mice of Selections 1 and 3, each exhibiting either high- or low-antibody responses to a wide range of antigens, were exposed to primary, secondary and tertiary infections of the nematode, Nematospiroides dubius. The course of these infections was followed by monitoring egg output and by examination of the worm ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Jenkins DC,Carrington TS

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chagas infection is a major endemic disease affecting Latin American countries. The persistence of Trypanosoma cruzi generates a chronic inflammatory reactivity that induces an immune response directed to the host's tissues. The effectiveness of the treatment in the chronic phase is still unsatisfactory due, amongst o...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Fauro R,Lo Presti S,Bazan C,Baez A,Strauss M,Triquell F,Cremonezzi D,Negrete OS,Willhuber GC,Paglini-Oliva P,Rivarola HW

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemotactic responses of Strongyloides stercoralis infective larvae (L3) to sodium chloride (NaCl) were investigated by recording larval tracks on a saline gradient in agarose. On agarose, larvae migrated randomly, whereas when placed at 0.01 m NaCl larvae moved to approximately 1.1 m NaCl where they turned, headed do...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Forbes WM,Ashton FT,Boston R,Schad GA

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transmission success of Onchocerca volvulus is thought to be influenced by a variety of regulatory or density-dependent processes that act at various points in the two-host life-cycle. This paper examines one component of the life-cycle, namely, the ingestion of microfilariae by the simuliid vector, to assess the ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Basáñez MG,Boussinesq M,Prod'hon J,Frontado H,Villamizar NJ,Medley GF,Anderson RM

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the molar content of guanine + cytosine (GC content) of DNA of the filarial nematode (Brugia malayi, Brugia pahangi and Dirofilaria imitis) and of the free-living soil nematodes Caenorhabditis elegans and have analysed the DNA for the presence of methylcytosine. Two independent methods, thermal dena...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Rothstein N,Stoller TJ,Rajan TV

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small vessels showing inflammatory cell infiltrates were invariably observed in the vicinity of intact Toxoplasma tissue cysts within the brains of mice congenitally infected with the protozoan. Lymphocytes were observed in intimate contact with the luminal aspect of the endothelium, penetrating into the thickened bas...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Sims TA,Hay J

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosomatids represent the causative agents of major diseases in humans, livestock and plants, with inevitable suffering and economic hardship as a result. They are also evolutionarily highly divergent organisms, and the many unique aspects of trypanosome biology provide opportunities in terms of identification of ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Field MC,Adung'a V,Obado S,Chait BT,Rout MP

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports on morphological variability of Eimeria species, which may be given either by drawings or as quantitative data. The drawings may be used to facilitate identification by eye of 'unknown' Eimeria specimens, whereas quantitative data may serve as a reference set for identification by multivariate stati...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Sommer C

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seroprevalence data illustrate that human exposure to Toxocara is frequent. Environmental contamination with Toxocara spp. eggs is assumed to be the best indicator of human exposure, but increased risk of exposure has also been associated with many other factors. Reported associations are inconsistent, however, and th...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kanobana K,Devleesschauwer B,Polman K,Speybroeck N

更新日期：2013-07-01 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：:The evolution of host specificity and the potential trade-off between being a generalist and a specialist are central issues in the evolutionary ecology of parasites. Different species of parasites or even different populations of the same species often show different degrees of host specificity. However, less is know...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Leung TL,Poulin R

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosomes are blood-borne parasites that can infect a variety of different vertebrates, including animals and humans. This study aims to broaden scientific knowledge about the presence and biodiversity of trypanosomes in Australian bats. Molecular and morphological analysis was performed on 86 blood samples collect...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Austen JM,Van Kampen E,Egan SL,O'Dea MA,Jackson B,Ryan UM,Irwin PJ,Prada D

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00