Molecular study of Echinococcus in west-central China.

abstract：:The effect of different incubation media and of temperature on the induction of water sensitivity has been investigated in intact and tailless Schistosoma mansoni cercariae. Removal of the cercarial tail by vortex stirring and elevation of the temperature of the medium from 27 to 37 degrees C resulted in the rapid ons...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Ramalho-Pinto FJ,Gazzinelli G,Howells RE,Pellegrino J

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurately identifying resistance to gastrointestinal nematode infections requires the ability to identify animals with low and high intensities of infection. The pathogenic effects of nematodes depend upon both the length and number of worms, neither of which can be measured in live animals. Indices that predict thes...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Mair C,Matthews L,De Cisneros JP,Stefan T,Stear MJ

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：:Actively immunized mice, whole-body irradiated with 650 or 525 rad., manifested comparable levels of resistance to Schistosoma mansoni compared with unirradiated, immunized mice in spite of a marked reduction in circulating leucocytes (greater than 90%) and platelets (greater than 85%), and despite an abrogation of de...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Vignali DA,Bickle QD,Taylor MG

更新日期：1988-02-01 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：: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 extent of sequence diversity among the genes encoding 10 antigens (Tp1-10) known to be recognized by CD8+ T lymphocytes from cattle immune to Theileria parva was analysed. The sequences were derived from parasites in 23 buffalo-derived cell lines, three cattle-derived isolates and one cloned cell line obtained fro...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Sitt T,Pelle R,Chepkwony M,Morrison WI,Toye P

更新日期：2018-09-01 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：:Twelve populations of bats were examined to determine the extent of interspecific associations in determining the species richness of intestinal helminth infracommunities. The pool of helminth species which was available to individual bats ranged from 2 to 21. The 'summed binomial' distribution was determined to under...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Lotz JM,Font WF

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to investigate the phenomenon of age-related immunity to visceral leishmaniasis, a 1 year prospective survey was carried out on 5671 people in a Leishmania infantum focus in north-west Iran. The average incidence rate of infection since 1985 was 2.8%/year with all ages equally at risk. One in 13 infections in...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Davies CR,Mazloumi Gavgani AS

更新日期：1999-09-01 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：:The amitochondriate parasitic protist Trichomonas vaginalis can utilize either glucose or maltose as carbon and energy source. The mechanisms of maltose utilization were explored with uptake experiments using radio-isotope labelled maltose in combination with the silicone-oil centrifugation technique and enzymatic ass...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： ter Kuile BH,Müller M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The community structure of monogeneans on the gills of a catfish Pimelodus albicans, in the Río de la Plata, was studied and compared with previous findings on P. maulatus. Six Monogenea species belonging to 3 genera were found: Demidospermus majusculus Kritsky & Gutiérrez, 1998; Demidospermus armostus Kritsky & Gutié...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Gutiérrez PA

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kudoid parasites are significant pathogens of marine fish. In the past, specific identification has been difficult due to a paucity of detailed morphological and biological information provided in the original description of some species. However, the introduction of DNA analysis has dramatically improved diagnosis. F...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Burger MA,Adlard RD

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Existing models of the basic case reproduction number (R0) for vector-borne diseases assume (i) that the distribution of vectors over the susceptible host species is homogeneous and (ii) that the biting preference for the susceptible host species rather than other potential hosts is a constant. Empirical evidence cont...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kelly DW,Thompson CE

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is suspected that host-parasite interactions are influenced by climatic oscillations such as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). However, the effects of climatic oscillations on host-parasite interactions have never been investigated. A long-term (1982-1999) dataset of the host snail Lymnaea stagnalis and tremato...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Doi H,Yurlova NI

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several approaches were adopted for the disruption and removal of the tegumental surface from protoscoleces of the horse strain of the hydatid organism, Echinococcus granulosus. The effectiveness of each method and the purity of subsequent microthrix-enriched fractions obtained by differential centrifugation were eval...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： McManus DP,Barrett NJ

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of BALB/c or MF1 mice with cyclosporin A (CsA) around the time of infection with Schistosoma mansoni conferred almost complete protection. The migration kinetics of L-[75Se]selenomethionine-labelled infective cercariae were investigated by compressed tissue autoradiography. Similar levels of skin penetration...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Munro GH,Brannan LR,Chappell LH,Thomson AW,McLaren DJ

更新日期：1991-02-01 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 efficiency of treatment of human infections with the unicellular eukaryotic pathogens such as fungi and protozoa remains deeply unsatisfactory. For example, the mortality rates from nosocomial fungemia in critically ill, immunosuppressed or post-cancer patients often exceed 50%. A set of six systemic clinical azol...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Lepesheva GI,Friggeri L,Waterman MR

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：SUMMARY:Clinical isolates from 3 microsporidia species, Encephalitozoon intestinalis and Encephalitozoon hellem, and the insect parasite Anncaliia (Brachiola, Nosema) algerae, were used in spore germination and enterocyte-like (C2Bbe1) cell infection assays to determine the effect of a panel of antimicrobial peptides. ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Leitch GJ,Ceballos C

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Responses to Taenia taeniaeformis infection were studied in mice with severe combined immunodeficiency (scid), which lack functional T and B lymphocytes. In the early phase of infection, accumulation of polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PML) occurred around the larvae in the liver of scid mice and their immunocompetent co...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Ishiwata K,Oku Y,Ito M,Kamiya M

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

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：:Monensin (Mon) is an anticoccidial polyether ionophore widely used to control coccidiosis. The extensive use of polyether ionophores on poultry farms resulted in widespread resistance, but the underlying resistance mechanisms are unknown in detail. For analysing the mode of action by which resistance against polyether...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Thabet A,Schmidt J,Baumann S,Honscha W,VON Bergen M,Daugschies A,Bangoura B

更新日期：2018-03-01 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：:The development of resistance in mice to reinfection with Schistosoma mansoni was recorded during an early chronic infection, and compared with hepatic portal pathological and vascular changes. The latter were assessed using a microsphere injection technique. The degree of acquired resistance was directly dependent on...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： McHugh SM,Coulson PS,Wilson RA

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple infections, those by more than one parasite in the same erythrocyte, may be adaptive for the malarial parasite as a means to ensure fertility. Alternatively they may simply be the consequence of a non-adaptive process forcing several parasites to compete for resources in one host cell. Avian hosts infected wi...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Martínez-de la Puente J,Merino S,Tomás G,Moreno J,Morales J,Lobato E

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neospora caninum is an Apicomplexan protozoan that has the dog as a definitive host and cattle (among other animals) as intermediate hosts. It causes encephalopathy in dogs and abortion in cows, with significant loss in worldwide livestock. As any Apicomplexan, the parasite invades the cells using proteins contained i...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Pereira LM,Candido-Silva JA,De Vries E,Yatsuda AP

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examine the evolution of microparasites in response to the immune system of vertebrate hosts. We first describe a simple model for an acute infection. This model suggests that the within-host dynamics of the microparasite will be a 'race' between parasite multiplication and a clonally expanding response by the host...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Antia R,Lipsitch M

更新日期：1997-01-01 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