Characterization of D-glucose transport in Trypanosoma rangeli.

abstract：:Electrophoresis of secretions collected from Globodera pallida revealed a smeared region between 25 and 50 kDa, and a single band of < 20 kDa. The secretions were used to raise an antiserum (LW1). Immunoblotting of parasite homogenates with LW1 differentiated G. pallida from its sibling species G. rostochiensis and re...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Duncan LH,Robertson L,Robertson WM,Kusel JR

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gastrointestinal nematodes (GIN) stand out as an important cause of disease in small ruminant, especially on goat farm. Widespread resistance to synthetic anthelminthics has stimulated the research for alternative strategies of parasite control, including the use of medicinal plants. The present work summarizes th...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Oliveira Santos F,Ponce Morais Cerqueira A,Branco A,José Moreira Batatinha M,Borges Botura M

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large database on the transmission of a stabilate of the Theileria parva Muguga stock from one breed of cattle using two stocks of Rhipicephalus appendiculatus, Muguga and Ol Pejeta was developed and analysed. Factors associated with the ticks and cattle, and the infections developing in cattle were studied in relat...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Young AS,Dolan TT,Morzaria SP,Mwakima FN,Norval RA,Scott J,Sherriff A,Gettinby G

更新日期：1996-09-01 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：:This study quantifies the rate and intensity of re-infection with human hookworm and Schistosoma mansoni infection 12 months following successful treatment, and investigates the influence of socio-economic, geographical and environmental factors. A longitudinal study of 642 individuals aged over 5 years was conducted ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Cundill B,Alexander N,Bethony JM,Diemert D,Pullan RL,Brooker S

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzymatic comparison has been made between isolates of Schistosoma mansoni from rats and humans in Guadeloupe and a Burundi isolate of S. rodhaini. Analyses of LDH, MDH, AcP, PGM, GPI, G6PDH and HK by isoelectric focusing provided no evidence for the involvement of S. rodhaini in the recent evolution of the schisto...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Rollinson D,Imbert-Establet D,Ross GC

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to diclazuril was induced by 10 passages of the Houghton strains of Eimeria acervulina and E. tenella in chickens given progressively greater concentrations of the drug. This resistance was, however, not complete since the drug retained some efficacy against the drug-passaged lines. Attempts to passage the ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Chapman HD

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Anaplasma species are important globally distributed tick-transmitted bacteria of veterinary and public health importance. These pathogens, cause anaplasmosis in domestic and wild animal species including humans. Rhipicephalus, Ixodes, Dermacentor and Amblyomma genera of ticks are the important vectors of Anaplasm...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Atif FA

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We cloned and expressed Echinostoma caproni HSP70 in Escherichia coli. This molecule presents an open reading frame (ORF) of 655 amino acids, and a theoretical molecular weight of 71 kDa. E. caproni HSP70 protein showed a high homology to other helminth molecules, major differences being located in the C-terminal regi...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Higón M,Monteagudo C,Fried B,Esteban JG,Toledo R,Marcilla A

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vesiculated protoscoleces (VP) were produced by culturing freshly collected protoscoleces from Echinococcus granulosus horse liver hydatids in RPMI 1640 monophasic medium at 37 degrees C for 18 days. Half of the VP were used as such, the other half used after killing them by freeze-thawing. Nine-day-old chicken heart ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Janssen D,De Rycke PH,De Ridder L

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A procedure is described for the isolation of sub-cellular fractions from bloodstream forms of Trypanosoma brucei. The method leaves intact most of the nuclei, mitochondria and microbodies. All the fractions have been chemically characterized and tested for 10 enzymatic markers. About 5% of total cell protein was isol...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Rovis L,Baekkeskov S

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stratospheric ozone depletion threatens to increase exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation which is known to be a factor in a number of diseases. There is little doubt that cumulative exposure to UV radiation is important in the aetiology of non-melanoma skin cancers. Evidence is also strong for a link with cutaneous ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Bentham G

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Judged by oocyst production, infections with Eimeria acervulina in birds immunized with E. maxima were consistently higher than in birds which had not been immunized. Oocyst production of E. maxima in birds previously infected with E. acervulina was greater, in three out of four experiments, than in control chickens,...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Rose ME

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In theory, the age at which maturation occurs in parasitic nematodes is inversely related to pre-maturational mortality rate, and cross-species data on mammalian nematodes are consistent with this prediction. Immunity is a major source of parasite mortality and parasites stand to gain sizeable fitness benefits through...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Guinnee MA,Gemmill AW,Chan BH,Viney ME,Read AF

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taenia crassiceps is a cestode parasite of wild and domestic animals that rarely affects humans; it has been widely used as an experimental model. The asexual proliferation by budding is a useful attribute of T. crassiceps cysticerci, which allows the various strains to be maintained indefinitely in the peritoneal cav...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Willms K,Zurabian R

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this study were (a) to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of foetal Doppler indices for the prediction of abnormal foetal heart rate (aFHR) at delivery after malaria crisis and (b) to test Doppler parameters against crisis duration for predicting aFHR. Every day during the malaria crisis, the u...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Arbeille P,Carles G,Georgescu M,Tobal N,Herault S,Bousquet F,Perrotin F

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an experiment to study the infectivity, growth and virulence of Schistocephalus solidus in their first intermediate host, copepods of the species Macrocyclops albidus were kept singly and exposed to up to 9 coracidia. Eleven or 14 days post-infection (p.i.) the presence and growth of the cestode larvae relative to ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Wedekind C

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of host heterogeneity in generating aggregation was investigated using Heligmosomoides polygyrus (Nematoda) in laboratory mice. Parameters of infection were compared between inbred and outbred mice, between primary and challenge infection protocols, and between gavage and natural exposure protocols, to ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Tanguay GV,Scott ME

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions in vivo between Plasmodium berghei sporozoites and Kupffer cells in rat livers were studied by transmission electron microscopy. By 10 and 15 min after inoculation, sporozoites were both free in the liver sinusoids and inside endocytotic vacuoles of the Kupffer cells. The latter cells were very active...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Meis JF,Verhave JP,Jap PH,Meuwissen JH

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population genetics of multi-host pathogens offers great potential for the understanding of their complex epidemiology but care must be taken to ensure that the sampling procedure does not bias estimates of population indices. The transfer of material to laboratory passage, in particular, runs the risk of bottleneckin...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Shrivastava J,Gower CM,Balolong E Jr,Wang TP,Qian BZ,Webster JP

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development and growth of Haemonchus contortus was studied in the stomach of the laboratory rabbit. Less than 1% of the ensheathed infective larvae given to rabbits became established, whereas after exsheathment in vitro under physiological conditions, 20-30% of the larvae administered developed to the 4th stage. ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Mapes CJ,Gallie GJ

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protoscoleces of Echinococcus granulosus absorb the L-amino acids proline, methionine, leucine, alanine, serine, phenylalanine, lysine and glutamic acid by a combination of mediated transport and diffusion. All eight amino acids were accumulated against a concentration gradient. Comparison of Kt and Vmax values sugges...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Jeffs SA,Arme C

更新日期：1987-08-01 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：:Nematophagous fungi are used in the biological control of the parasitic helminths of animals and plants. The association of ovicidal and predator nematophagous fungi may present a complementary and increased action on the biological control of helminths. Joint growth compatibility and predation tests were carried out ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Vieira ÍS,Oliveira IC,Campos AK,Araújo JV

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmania donovani causes visceral disease (kala-azar), a major health problem throughout the tropics with 500 000 new cases every year. Leishmania differentiates from the promastigote to the amastigote form to establish infection in a mammalian host. To understand the process of differentiation, we assessed the glob...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Srividya G,Duncan R,Sharma P,Raju BV,Nakhasi HL,Salotra P

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prediction of the hypothesis of Wilson (1977, 1980 a, b) to account for larval migration of homogonic Strongyloides ratti in the host is that the pattern of invasion of the mammary gland of a lactating rat will be quantitatively similar on both sides and independent of the point of entry into the body. Twenty-one su...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Wilson PA,Simpson NE

更新日期：1982-06-01 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：: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：:A beta-1,3-glucan-binding lectin from the penetration glands of Diplostomum pseudospathaceum cercariae was isolated by affinity chromatography using yeast glucan and curdlan as affinity matrices. Further purification to homogeneity was performed by cation-exchange chromatography. The protein migrated as a double band ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Mikes L,Man P

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The host recognition and invasion process of Myxobolus cerebralis actinospores (triactinomyxon, TAM) was studied on a genetic level. A small-scale in vitro assay was developed to activate a large number of TAMs simultaneously, and to monitor the host invasion in the absence of live fish. The transcriptomes of non-acti...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Eszterbauer E,Kallert DM,Grabner D,El-Matbouli M

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00