Babesia parasites develop and are transmitted by the non-vector soft tick Ornithodoros moubata (Acari: Argasidae).

abstract：:High throughput technologies continue to develop in response to the challenges set by the genome projects. This article discusses how the techniques of both high throughput screening (HTS) and synthesis can influence research in parasitology. Examples of the use of targeted and phenotype-based HTS using unbiased compo...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Morgan RE,Westwood NJ

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：:Vertically transmitted parasites (VTPs) such as Wolbachia are expected not only to minimize the damage they inflict on their hosts, but also to protect their hosts against the damaging effects of coinfecting parasites. By modifying the fitness costs of the infection, VTPs can therefore play an important role in the ev...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Zélé F,Denoyelle J,Duron O,Rivero A

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As has been shown previously, immunologically intact mice with patent Schistosoma mansoni infections had a significantly lower mean platelet number than intact uninfected mice (P<0.0001). However, platelet numbers in T-cell deprived mice with patent infections were not significantly different from those in uninfected ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Stanley RG,Ngaiza JR,Atieno E,Jell G,Francklow K,Jackson CL,Parry H,Doenhoff MJ

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A thymine-uracil transport system is present in the plasma membrane brush-border of the tapeworm, Hymenolepis diminuta. The relation between initial uptake and substrate concentration of either thymine or uracil was sigmoidal when 2-14C-labelled substrates were used. In contrast, absorption kinetics of methyl-14C- and...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Uglem GL,Dupre RK,Harley JP

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ascarid parasites infect a variety of hosts and regular anthelmintic treatment is recommended for all species. Parascaris spp. is the only ascarid species with widespread anthelmintic resistance, which allows for the study of resistance mechanisms. The purpose of this study was to establish an in vitro drug exposure p...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Scare JA,Dini P,Norris JK,Steuer AE,Scoggin K,Gravatte HS,Howe DK,Slusarewicz P,Nielsen MK

更新日期：2020-05-01 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：:A dipstick dot ELISA for detection of Taenia-specific coproantigens was developed. The test was based on a sandwich ELISA using antibodies raised against adult Taenia solium. Antibodies were absorbed to nitrocellulose paper previously adhered to acetate plastic to form dipsticks. Once blocked with 5% skimmed milk and ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Allan JC,Mencos F,Garcia-Noval J,Sarti E,Flisser A,Wang Y,Liu D,Craig PS

更新日期：1993-07-01 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：: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：:We have cloned a cDNA encoding a novel antigen from a Sarcoptes scabiei (Acari) cDNA library by immunoscreening with sera from S. scabiei-infected dogs. The antigen is encoded by a 2,157 bp mRNA with a predicted open reading frame of 719 amino acids (molecular weight 79 kDa). Our sequence analysis identified the prese...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Ljunggren EL,Bergström K,Morrison DA,Mattsson JG

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was undertaken to investigate the antiparasitic activity of extracellular products of Streptomyces albus. Bioactivity-guided isolation of chloroform extracts affording a compound showing potent activity. The structure of the compound was elucidated as salinomycin (SAL) by EI-MS, 1H NMR and 13C NMR. I...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Yao JY,Gao MY,Jia YY,Wu YX,Yin WL,Cao Z,Yang GL,Huang HB,Wang CF,Shen JY,Gu ZM

更新日期：2019-04-01 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：:Recent studies of Echinococcus granulosus molecular strain typing have enabled a better understanding of the transmission cycle of cystic echinococcosis. There have been many publications in this area but there is a need for the evaluation of these tools. We have attempted to respond to this need in our study, which a...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Bart JM,Bardonnet K,Elfegoun MC,Dumon H,Dia L,Vuitton DA,Piarroux R

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The World Health Organization announced in November 2014 at the fourth international meeting on 'the control of neglected zoonotic diseases - from advocacy to action', that intervention tools for eliminating Taenia solium taeniosis/cysticercosis (TSTC) are in place. The aim of this work was to elucidate theoretical ou...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Johansen MV,Trevisan C,Gabriël S,Magnussen P,Braae UC

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourth-stage larvae of Ascaris suum, recovered from piglets at 11-22 days post-infection (p.i.), were examined by light microscopy for changes in the somatic musculature. During this time the estimated total number of muscle cells in the body increases from approximately 600 to 21 000 cells. This non-eutelic developme...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： O'Grady RT

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An animal's social behaviour both influences and changes in response to its parasites. Here we consider these bidirectional links between host social behaviours and parasite infection, both those that occur from ecological vs evolutionary processes. First, we review how social behaviours of individuals and groups infl...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Hawley DM,Gibson AK,Townsend AK,Craft ME,Stephenson JF

更新日期：2020-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about the effects of infection with Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease, on its tick vectors. The purpose of this study was to determine the behavioural and ecological effects of infection by the bacterium in nymphal and adult black-legged (Ixodes scapularis) ticks. We found th...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Lefcort H,Durden LA

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A polymorphic set of 14 kDa excretory-secretory (E-S) antigen-encoding cDNAs, with similarity to a previously characterized 15 kDa E-S antigen of Haemonchus contortus, was cloned from Cooperia punctata. Five cDNAs encoding predicted proteins of 70-80% identity were sequenced. Genomic analyses of individuals proved the...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Yatsuda AP,De Vries E,Vieira Bressan MC,Eysker M

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridization events between Schistosoma species (Digenea, Platyhelminthes) are reported with increasing frequency, largely due to improved access to molecular tools. Nevertheless, little is known about the distribution and frequency of hybrid schistosomes in nature. Screening for hybrids on a large scale is complicat...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Boon NAM,Van Den Broeck F,Faye D,Volckaert FAM,Mboup S,Polman K,Huyse T

更新日期：2018-04-01 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：:Host location by parasites can be achieved by either active or passive mechanisms. In spite of their significance, the efficacy of these methods has been little researched. High fecundity in parasites is discussed in terms of the role it plays in dispersal and transmission. Some concepts developed by mainstream behavi...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Rea JG,Irwin SW

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of parasites as biological tags to discriminate among marine fish stocks has become a widely accepted method in fisheries management. Here, we first link this approach to its unstated ecological foundation, the decay in the similarity of the species composition of assemblages as a function of increasing distan...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Poulin R,Kamiya T

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:A mathematical model of the transmission dynamics of Cowdria ruminantium by the ixodid tick Amblyomma hebraeum in the bovine host is developed and used to investigate the epidemiology of heartwater across a range of vector challenge. The processes described are supported by empirical data. The pattern of outcome measu...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： O'Callaghan CJ,Medley GF,Peter TF,Perry BD

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichinella spiralis infections may lead to the loss of behavioural dominance among male mice. Reversals of dominance order first appear at the time when newborn larvae are released into the circulation of the host. The duration of dominance reversals bears no relationship to the number of muscle larvae harboured. ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Rau ME

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new model for the study of granuloma formation in the liver is described. Rats received an injection of 20,000 Schistosoma mansoni eggs in the portal vein and granuloma formation was evaluated at 3, 5 and 7 weeks post-injection. Liver collagen was estimated at the same time and serum procollagen III peptide, a marke...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Van Gool J,Van Tiel D,Doenhoff MJ,Van Vugt H

更新日期：1991-02-01 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：:Strongyloides ratti is a parasitic nematode of rats. The host immune response against S. ratti affects the development of its free-living generation, favouring the development of free-living adult males and females at the expense of directly developing, infective 3rd-stage larvae. However, how the host immune response...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Crook M,Viney ME

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The global seroprevalence of latent toxoplasmosis is estimated to be higher than 30%. The presence of slowly dividing parasites in tissue cysts located mainly in immunoprivileged organs was long considered asymptomatic. Recently, many studies have shown that latent Toxoplasma infections could have serious impacts on h...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Flegr J,Escudero DQ

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00