Protozoan and helminth infections in pregnancy. Short-term and long-term implications of transmission of infection from mother to foetus.

abstract：:The genetic basis of virulence in a line (YM) of Plasmodium yoelii yoelii was investigated in a cross with a mild line (A/C). The blood forms of the virulent line developed extensively in mature erythrocytes of mice, causing death of the host within 7 days; infections with the mild line were normally restricted to ret...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Walliker D,Sanderson A,Yoeli M,Hargreaves BJ

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serology is an important tool for the diagnosis of alveolar echinococcosis (AE) in humans. In order to improve serodiagnostic performance, we have developed an in vitro-produced Echinococcus mulilocularis metacestode vesicle fluid (EmVF) antigen for application in an immunoblot assay. Immunoblot analysis of EmVF revea...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Müller N,Frei E,Nuñez S,Gottstein B

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anthelmintic properties of tanniferous plants and of their secondary metabolites represent one possible alternative to chemotherapy that is currently being explored as a means of achieving sustainable control of gastrointestinal nematodes in ruminants. Previous in vivo and in vitro results suggest that tanniferous...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Bahuaud D,Martinez-Ortiz de Montellano C,Chauveau S,Prevot F,Torres-Acosta F,Fouraste I,Hoste H

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The parasitic roundworms Strongyloides stercoralis (in man) and Strongyloides ratti (in rats) employ environmentally controlled XX/XO sex determination with a pair of X chromosomes and two pairs of autosomes. Strongyloides papillosus (in sheep) has only two pairs of chromosomes, one of which combines the genetic mater...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kulkarni A,Dyka A,Nemetschke L,Grant WN,Streit A

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nematodes represent one of the most abundant and species-rich groups of animals on the planet, with parasitic species causing chronic, debilitating infections in both livestock and humans worldwide. The prevalence and success of the nematodes is a direct consequence of the exceptionally protective properties of their ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Stepek G,McCormack G,Birnie AJ,Page AP

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of the electrical properties of neurons in the motornervous system of Ascaris sutom suggests that it is largely an analogue system. The motorneurons do not conduct action potentials and they release transmitter tonically at their normal resting potential; transmitter release is increased or decreased as a con...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Davis RE,Stretton AO

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional mice and congenitally athymic, nude mice were infected with 20 metacercariae of the intestinal trematode Echinostoma revolutum. The sequential events in the pathological changes in the intestine were studied at different intervals post-infection. By day 11 onwards the conventional mice displayed dilatatio...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Bindseil E,Christensen NO

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Baltic Sea is characterized by organisms that can tolerate brackish water. Because of the Sea's history during glacial times, its flora and fauna (and also their parasites) can be traced to marine, freshwater and genuine brackish elements beside glacial relics. Snails, planktonic copepods, benthic amphipods and is...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Zander CD,Reimer LW

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The statistical aggregation of parasites among hosts is often described empirically by the negative binomial (Poisson-gamma) distribution. Alternatively, the Poisson-lognormal model can be used. This has the advantage that it can be fitted as a generalized linear mixed model, thereby quantifying the sources of aggrega...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Elston DA,Moss R,Boulinier T,Arrowsmith C,Lambin X

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, a recombinant aminopeptidase P (rTgAPP) from Toxoplasma gondii was expressed in Escherichia coli to evaluate its enzyme parameters. The rTgAPP showed strong activity against a synthetic substrate for aminopeptidase P at pH 8·0 with a K m value of 0·255 µ m and a k cat value of 35·6 s-1. The overa...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Yang M,Zheng J,Jia H,Song M

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ornithodoros moubata ticks were fed on blood infected with Babesia equi. However, the parasites were quickly cleared as evidenced by the disappearance of B. equi-specific ribosomal RNA from the ticks. We hypothesized that if the Babesia parasite can escape midgut-associated barriers a non-vector tick can become infect...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Battsetseg B,Matsuo T,Xuan X,Boldbaatar D,Chee SH,Umemiya R,Sakaguchi T,Hatta T,Zhou J,Verdida AR,Taylor D,Fujisaki K

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ligand-gated chloride channels (LGCCs) are key components of the nervous system of parasitic nematodes and important targets for anthelmintics. Here, we describe the isolation and characterization of a novel member of the LGCC gene family (HcLGCC1) from the parasitic nematode Haemonchus contortus. Sequence analysis re...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Forrester SG,Siddiqui SZ

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SIV rats infected with a high dose (50,000 oocysts) of Eimeria nieschulzi displayed clinical symptoms of coccidiosis such as diarrhoea (days 6 and 7 post-primary infection) and weight loss (days 6-8 post-primary infection) and were completely immune to challenge with a similar dose. The ability of rats to produce tumo...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Smith NC,Ovington KS,Deplazes P,Eckert J

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:If parasitic infection is a driving force in female mate choice, then females should preferentially select parasite-free males. The role of infection on female mate choice in mammals was assessed using a 3-chambered apparatus. A female CD-1 mouse was allowed to choose between 2 tethered male mice, 1 uninfected and 1 i...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Ehman KD,Scott ME

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosoma brucei is the causative agent of African sleeping sickness in humans and one of several pathogens that cause the related veterinary disease Nagana. A complex co-evolution has occurred between these parasites and primates that led to the emergence of trypanosome-specific defences and counter-measures. The f...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Capewell P,Cooper A,Clucas C,Weir W,Macleod A

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flow cytometric analysis of the binucleated protozoan parasite Giardia intestinalis gave DNA histograms with a broad G1 peak and a definable G2 + M peak with twice the DNA content of G1. Twenty-four hour treatment with metronidazole arrested cell cycle progression of susceptible trophozoites in the G2 + M phase, but h...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Hoyne GF,Boreham PF,Parsons PG,Ward C,Biggs B

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Unravelling the determinants of parasite life-history traits in natural settings is complex. Here, we deciphered the relationships between biotic, abiotic factors and the variation in 4 life-history traits (body size, egg presence, egg number and egg size) in the fish ectoparasite Tracheliastes polycolpus. We...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Loot G,Poulet N,Brosse S,Tudesque L,Thomas F,Blanchet S

更新日期：2011-06-01 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：:In situations where malaria eradication is not an option in the foreseeable future the emphasis must be on the control of morbidity and mortality due to malaria. Under such circumstances drawing a distinction between malarial parasitization and malarial disease may be important for workers in both field and laboratory...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Marsh K

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationships between populations of the Deer Mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) and the White-footed Mouse (P. leucopus) and their respective Cuterebra parasites were examined. Population genetic structure of hosts and parasites was inferred using cytochrome oxidase mitochondrial sequences of specimens from 7 populat...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Noel S,Angers B,Lapointe FJ

更新日期：2005-08-01 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：: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：: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：:Here, the validity of the assumption of concerted evolution of ribosomal regions in larval and adult Cooperia oncophora was assessed. In each of 4 individuals of this parasitic nematode, at least 78% of the sequences comprised different ITS variants. This implies that concerted evolution is not acting, which is corrob...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Mes TH,Cornelissen AW

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the genomic organization and transcription of the histone H2A genes in the protozoan parasite Leishmania infantum. In the parasite genome 2 gene clusters exist, each containing 3 H2A gene copies. Sequence analyses showed the existence of significant sequence divergence among the H2A genes, mainly in th...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Soto M,Quijada L,Larreta R,Iborra S,Alonso C,Requena JM

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circumstantial evidence suggests that the earlier detachment of Boophilus microplus larvae from highly resistant cattle follows the release of histamine at the attachment site. In vivo and in vitro experiments show that a proportion of the larvae will detach following injection or infusion of histamine. Other mediator...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kemp DH,Bourne A

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protective immunity against larval Taenia crassiceps has been shown to rely on T cells; however, the roles of the specific subsets of T cells during infection are not known. To investigate a possible role for gamma delta T cells, this study investigated larval infection in delta-chain knock-out C57BL/6 (deltaKO) and w...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Toenjes SA,Spolski RJ,Mooney KA,Kuhn RE

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To test the homogeneity of 18S sequences within Trypanosoma cruzi, riboprint profiles were separated by temperature gradient gel electrophoresis (TGGE). Upon interpretation of melting curves of fragments within a riboprint profile, there appeared to be two 18S sequence types within each stock examined. Two similar typ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Stothard JR,Frame IA,Carrasco HJ,Miles MA

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

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：:A specific enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, based on a 48 kDa metallo-proteinase isolated from the frontal glands of a porocephalid pentastomid (Porocephalus crotali) in rat intermediate hosts, is described. SDS-PAGE analysis of whole nymphal homogenate, followed by Western blotting and probing with immune rat serum...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Jones DA,Riley J

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00