Subtype analysis of Cryptosporidium parvum isolates from calves on farms around Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro, using the 60 kDa glycoprotein gene sequences.

abstract：:Full-length cDNAs encoding cytosolic (SODc) and putative extracellular (SODe) Cu/Zn superoxide dismutases (SODs) from the ovine gastrointestinal parasitic nematode Haemonchus contortus have been isolated and characterized. The predicted sequences of the H. contortus SODs showed strong homology to other helminth SODs, ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Liddell S,Knox DP

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of fever among infants in the village of Idete in the Morogoro region of Tanzania was analyzed in relation to densities of Plasmodium falciparum parasites in the peripheral blood. Parasite densities in both fever cases and in asymptomatic infants, were compared and a Bayesian non-parametric mixture decom...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Vounatsou P,Smith T,Kitua AY,Alonso PL,Tanner M

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute Chagas disease outbreaks are related to the consumption of food or drink contaminated by triatomine feces, thus making oral infection an important route of transmission. Both vector-borne and oral infections trigger important cardiac manifestations in the host that are related to a dysregulated immune response. ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kuehn CC,Oliveira LG,Miranda MA,Prado JC

更新日期：2014-06-01 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：: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：: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：:A field trial was conducted to evaluate the potential of the nematode-destroying fungus Duddingtonia flagrans to control free-living stages of horse strongyles. In late Spring 2 groups of horses (yearlings) with mixed infections of strongyles were allowed to contaminate 2 equal-sized pastures. One of the groups (F) re...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Larsen M,Nansen P,Grøndahl C,Thamsborg SM,Grønvold J,Wolstrup J,Henriksen SA,Monrad J

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Host behavioural modification by parasites is a common and well-documented phenomenon. However, knowledge on the complexity and specificity of the underlying mechanisms is limited, and host specificity among manipulating parasites has rarely been experimentally verified. We tested the hypothesis that the ability to in...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Hernandez RN,Fredensborg BL

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Why do parasites kill their hosts? During this past decade, research in three different areas; evolutionary ecology, medical microbiology, and population genetics has provided theory and data that address this and related questions of selection and the evolution and maintenance of parasite virulence. A general theory ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Levin BR,Svanborg Edén C

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myxozoans have been successfully used as tags for fish stock identification around the world. However, few studies using myxozoan tags have been carried out in the Southern Atlantic, a region with complex oceanography that constitutes a potentially suitable scenario for testing the utility of myxozoans as indicators. ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Cantatore DM,Irigoitia MM,Holzer AS,Timi JT

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The numbers, distribution in the small intestine, sexual development and growth (dry weight) of 5-week-old Moniliformis dubius (Acanthocephala) were investigated experimentally in adult, female CFHB rats fed on theoretically isoenergetic diets containing known amounts of fructose in combination with either maize-oil f...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Crompton DW,Keymer A,Singhvi A,Nesheim MC

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bat flies (Streblidae) are diverse, obligate blood-feeding insects and probably the most conspicuous ectoparasites of bats. They show preferences for specific body regions on their host bat, which are reflected in behavioural characteristics. In this study, we corroborate the categorization of bat flies into three eco...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Hiller T,Honner B,Page RA,Tschapka M

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmania produce several types of mucin-like glycoproteins called proteophosphoglycans (PPGs) some of which are secreted while others are found on the surface of promastigotes and amastigotes. These proteins are thought to be important in the transmission, invasion and subsequent intracellular survival of parasites....

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Samant M,Sahasrabuddhe AA,Singh N,Gupta SK,Sundar S,Dube A

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryonic stages of various Onchocerca species have been used to stimulate resistance in CBA mice to challenge injections with the microfilariae of Onchocerca lienalis. Comparable levels of resistance to challenge (29-37% reductions) were conferred by living, freeze-killed, or sonicated organisms administered with Fre...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Carlow CK,Bianco AE

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparison has been made of the interactions between passively transferred and actively acquired immunity in regulating populations of Taenia hydatigena and T. ovis. When ewes were grazed prior to parturition under a high infection pressure, immunity was transferred to their offspring for up to 8 weeks. A qualitativ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Gemmell MA,Lawson JR,Roberts MG,Griffin JF

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-trypanosomiasis vaccination still remains the best theoretical option in the fight against a disease that is continuously hovering between its wildlife reservoir and its reservoir in man and livestock. While antigenic variation of the parasite surface coat has been considered the major obstacle in the development...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Magez S,Caljon G,Tran T,Stijlemans B,Radwanska M

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of drug resistance by the present Houghton strain of Eimeria tenella to the quinolones, methyl benzoquate and buquinolate, was found to take place after a single experimental passage. The development of resistance was independent of drug selection pressure and showed cross resistance to other quinolone...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Chapman HD

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A collection of stocks of Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense isolated in Kenya have been examined for electrophoretic variation in 20 enzymes. The results obtained have been analysed in order to determine whether these trypanosomes are diploid and undergo mating and to determine the genetic distance between T. b. rhodesie...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Tait A,Barry JD,Wink R,Sanderson A,Crowe JS

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments to investigate the metabolism of glycine, L-glutamic acid and L-aspartic acid by Moniliformis moniliformis were carried out by incubating adult worms aerobically for 3 h at 37 degrees C in Tyrode's solution containing either [U-14C]glycine, L-[U-14C]glutamic acid, L-[U-14C]aspartic acid or L-[4-14C]asparti...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Ward PF,Crompton DW

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular phylogeny and morphology of the oxyuroid nematode genus Aspiculuris from voles and house mice has been examined. Worms collected from Myodes glareolus in Poland, Eire and the UK are identified as Aspiculuris tianjinensis, previously known only from China, while worms from Mus musculus from a range of loc...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Behnke JM,Stewart A,Bajer A,Grzybek M,Harris PD,Lowe A,Ribas A,Smales L,Vandegrift KJ

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nematode-trapping fungus Arthrobotrys oligospora traps and invades all the free-living juvenile stages of the trichostrongyle nematode Trichostrongylus colubriformis. The processes of capture and invasion of the 1st-stage juveniles are described using differential interference contrast optics and 3-D reconstructio...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Murray DS,Wharton DA

更新日期：1990-08-01 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：:Ivermectin treatment may induce severe adverse reactions in some individuals heavily infected with Loa loa. This hampers the implementation of mass ivermectin treatment against onchocerciasis in areas where Onchocerca volvulus and L. loa are co-endemic. In order to identify factors, including co-infections, which may ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Pion SD,Clarke P,Filipe JA,Kamgno J,Gardon J,Basáñez MG,Boussinesq M

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate change, in particular rising temperature, is suspected to be a major driver for the emergence of many wildlife diseases. Proliferative kidney disease of salmonids, caused by the myxozoan Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae, was used to evaluate how temperature dependence of host-parasite interactions modulates disea...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Strepparava N,Segner H,Ros A,Hartikainen H,Schmidt-Posthaus H,Wahli T

更新日期：2018-03-01 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：: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：:A cDNA clone codifying ribosomal protein L25 was isolated from a Leishmania braziliensis cDNA gene library. The alignment of the amino acid sequence deduced from this gene with other proteins revealed that this protein is related to the L23/25 rihosomal protein family. This is so because this protein shows, in its C-t...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： González AC,Martínez E,Carmelo E,Piñero JE,Alonso V,Del Castillo A,Valladares B

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies of mating interactions between schistosome species from different evolutionary lineages in mice showed that mating is not random: heterospecific pairs form but, given the choice, the preference is for homospecific partners. Mating competition and change of mate were also demonstrated. Schistosoma mans...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Cosgrove CL,Southgate VR

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IgA and IgE activity against Teladorsagia circumcincta was investigated in a flock of Texel lambs following natural, mixed nematode infection among lambs. The distribution of IgA activity was similar to a gamma distribution whereas IgE activity was different. Box-Cox analysis demonstrated that X0.25 was a suitable tra...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Murphy L,Eckersall PD,Bishop SC,Pettit JJ,Huntley JF,Burchmore R,Stear MJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of microgamonts was studied in the small intestine of a 2-day-old cat after oral inoculation with 10(7) bradyzoites of Sarcocystis hirsuta. The cat was given bradyzoites in 2 doses at 2 h apart and killed 4 h later. Gamonts were seen in parasitophorous vacuoles of goblet cells in the epithelium of the ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Dubey JP

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00