Further evidence for the occurrence of a distinct strain of Echinococcus granulosus in European pigs.

abstract：:CD4(+) T-helper (Th) cell is widely recognized to be capable of influencing worm development and egg granuloma formation after schistosome infection. Interleukin (IL)-12 and IL-4 play key roles in regulation of Th cell differentiation. In the present study, we subcutaneously inoculated mice with hybridoma cells secret...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Cheng YL,Song WJ,Liu WQ,Lei JH,Kong Z,Li YL

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In patients infected with Trichuris trichiura, large eggs as well as more typical eggs were frequently found in the feces; these large eggs have been attributed to human infection by T. vulpis. To clarify whether the female worms laying the large eggs were T. trichiura or T. vulpis, we examined the morphology of adult...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Yoshikawa H,Yamada M,Matsumoto Y,Yoshida Y

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case-control study was designed to investigate the role of different Cryptosporidium spp. in Swedish dairy herds with and without calf diarrhoeal problems. Faecal samples were collected from preweaned calves, young stock and cows. Cryptosporidium oocysts were detected by sodium chloride flotation and epifluorescence...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Silverlås C,de Verdier K,Emanuelson U,Mattsson JG,Björkman C

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schistosomiasis japonica remains one important public health concern that cause great loss of humans' health and social-economic development in the Peoples' Republic of China. At the end of 1990s and the beginning of 2000s, there were still about 0.8 million patients and nearly 85 million people living in the epidemic...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Liu R,Dong HF,Jiang MS

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial peptides are increasingly being explored as alternative agents for therapy against the parasitic protozoan Leishmania. Previously, we reported that the synthetic magainin analog, pexiganan, induced apoptosis of surface protease-deficient Leishmania. Here, we report the development of an arginine-rich var...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Kulkarni MM,Karafova A,Kamysz W,McGwire BS

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosoma acomys (Stercoraria, Trypanosomatidae) was studied in the laboratory-bred spiny mouse Acomys cahirinus. Only trypomastigotes were found in peripheral blood, whereas the thymus of experimentally infected A. cahirinus showed amastigote syncytial reproductive forms whose nuclei of nuclei ranged from 2 to 128....

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Abdallah MA,Abdel-Hafez SK,al-Yaman FM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An easy and rapid tool for the individual identification of Haemonchus species in domestic ruminants might be very useful in the study of natural populations, especially when two (or three) species are sympatric. Techniques based on cytology, cuticular-ridge patterns, sublateral hypodermic chords, or molecular biology...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Jacquiet P,Cabaret J,Cheikh D,Thiam E

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study was performed on a male European bison (Bison bonasus bonasus L.) foetus spontaneously aborted at the fourth or fifth month of pregnancy in the Białowieża Forest. Serum samples from the foetus and mother revealed the presence of antibodies against T. gondii (S/P% = 88% and 75%, respectively). Mobile extracel...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Moskwa B,Bień J,Kornacka A,Cybulska A,Goździk K,Krzysiak MK,Reiterova K,Cabaj W

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study is to understand the anti-Clonorchis sinensis properties of mebendazole and albendazole, and compare to praziquantel and tribendimidine. Two hundred and thirty rats were divided into five batches for experimental treatment. In four batches, each rat was infected orally with 50 or 100 C. sinensis m...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Xiao SH,Xue J,Xu LL,Zhang YN,Qiang HQ

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effect of host gender and body mass on species richness of flea infracommunities in nine rodent host species from three biomes (temperate zone of central Europe, desert of the Middle East and the tropics of East Africa). Using season- and species-specific generalized linear mixed models and controlling ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Kiffner C,Stanko M,Morand S,Khokhlova IS,Shenbrot GI,Laudisoit A,Leirs H,Hawlena H,Krasnov BR

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blastocystis sp. is a common intestinal parasite. To date, there have been sporadic and scanty studies on Blastocystis sp. carried out in rural communities in Nepal. We surveyed the prevalence of Blastocystis sp. and its possible associated risk factors, and reported the predominant Blastocystis sp. subtype in two rur...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Lee IL,Tan TC,Tan PC,Nanthiney DR,Biraj MK,Surendra KM,Suresh KG

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the prevalence of endoparasites and their association with diarrhea, a survey was conducted in the Southern Province of Zambia that used conventional and molecular techniques applied to stool and urine samples from school-age children (n = 93). Almost half of the stools (49.5%) were diarrhetic. The overal...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Graczyk TK,Shiff CK,Tamang L,Munsaka F,Beitin AM,Moss WJ

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schistosomiasis affects more than 240 million people worldwide, an infection which may cause urogenital manifestations including, among others, squamous bladder cancer and prostate involvement. We describe the first case of a prostate adenocarcinoma associated with prostatic Schistosoma haematobium infection occurring...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Figueiredo JC,Richter J,Borja N,Balaca A,Costa S,Belo S,Grácio MA

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mixed infections with Schistosoma japonicum and S. mansoni were carried out in mice. S. japonicum females paired with S. mansoni males developed normally and produced numerous viable eggs; very little sperm was found in the female genital tract. The eggs yielded many miracidia infective to Oncomelania hupensis, the ho...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Imbert-Establet D,Xia M,Jourdane J

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A quantitative colorimetric assay using the oxidation-reduction indicator resazurin was developed to measure cytotoxicity of compounds against the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. This method is based on the detection of colorimetric changes caused by the oxidation (blue) and reduction (pink) capabilities of resa...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Rolón M,Vega C,Escario JA,Gómez-Barrio A

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myxobolus miyairii Kudo, 1919 was first reported from the intestines of the Amur catfish (Silurus asotus) in Japan and then in China and Russia, but with incomplete description. During the investigation of fish myxosporean diversity in Poyang Lake, the biggest lake along the Yangtze River, China, two Amur catfish high...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Liu XH,Zhang JY,Batueva MD,Voronin VN

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many factors contribute to parasites varying in host specificity and distribution among potential hosts. Metagonimoides oregonensis is a digenetic trematode that uses stream-dwelling plethodontid salamanders as second intermediate hosts in the Eastern US. We completed a field survey to identify which stream salamander...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Wyderko JA,Benfield EF,Maerz JC,Cecala KC,Belden LK

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within livestock production, enteric diseases play an important role, since they cause severe economic losses due to mortality, growth depression, and reduction in the conversion rate. Coccidiosis caused by Eimeria spp. is a parasitic disease of high morbidity that affects various animal species, including sheep. In s...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Trejo-Huitrón G,Bautista-Gómez LG,Martínez-Castañeda JS,Romero-Núñez C,Trejo-Castro L,Espinosa-Ayala E

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of the immune response in chronic helminth infections suggest that parasites modulate the host's immune response. Taenia solium metacestodes, in particular, produce molecules that down-regulate cell-mediated immunity. We have described a small RNA peptide termed metacestode factor (MF) that depresses the murin...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Arechavaleta F,Molinari JL,Tato P

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sarcophagids are a large family of Diptera, with a worldwide distribution. They are related to decomposing organic matter and are very interesting for health science and in forensic cases since many species produce myiasis and occur in human corpses. This family is considered difficult to study, particularly with rega...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Paños-Nicolás Á,Arnaldos MI,García MD,Ubero-Pascal N

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The general perception is that cattle are major reservoirs for Cryptosporidium parvum infections in humans and that C. parvum is a major cause of diarrhea and production loss in cattle. Adult cattle may play an important role as cryptic carrier of the infection. Cryptosporidium spp. in asymptomatic adult dairy cattle ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Amer S,Honma H,Ikarashi M,Oishi R,Endo M,Otawa K,Nakai Y

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied in vivo immune response to fleas in two gerbils, Gerbillus dasyurus and Gerbillus andersoni allenbyi, which differed in their natural species richness of flea assemblages and prevalence of infestation. G.dasyurus is parasitized naturally by several flea species, but the prevalence of infestation is low, whe...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Khokhlova IS,Spinu M,Krasnov BR,Degen AA

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When used at low concentrations and added to the water body, water-soluble chlorophyllin (resulting from chlorophyll after removal of the phytol) and pheophorbid (produced from chlorophyllin by acidification) are able to kill mosquito larvae and other small animals within a few hours under exposure of solar radiation....

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Wohllebe S,Richter R,Richter P,Häder DP

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One cDNA clone was purified from an adult Clonorchis sinensis cDNA library, and its deduced polypeptide sequence was found to be homologous with myosin regulatory light chain (MRLC) of invertebrates and vertebrates. Two amino-acid residues, Thr and Ser, were conserved at the phosphorylation sites that regulate the fun...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Kwon YD,Cho PY,Hong SJ

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationships between inflammation in organs with Toxocara canis larval migration and matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) were investigated following the infection of mice with 1,000 infective eggs. Gelatinase activity was defined by gelatin zymography, optimum pH, inhibitor specificity and Western blot analysis. M...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Lai SC,Chen KM,Chen HC,Lee HH

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The performance of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) procedures for the detection of Cryptosporidium parvum HNJ-1 strain (genotype II) oocysts purified from mice using published protocols was evaluated. Oocysts were concentrated from fecal samples of infected severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) mice by sucrose flota...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Leetz AS,Sotiriadou I,Ongerth J,Karanis P

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosomal RNA genes have been cloned from the major species of African trypanosomes. Complete nucleotide sequence composition of the small subunit (SSU) and portions of the large subunit (LSU) ribosomal RNA genes was determined for each of these trypanosome species. In contrast to the situation in Trypanosoma brucei, ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Urakawa T,Majiwa PA

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to genetically characterize and phylogenetically analyze the Cryptosporidium spp. isolated from exotic birds commercialized in popular markets, commercial aviaries, and pet shops located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Fecal samples from individually housed birds were collected and subjected t...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Gomes RS,Huber F,da Silva S,do Bomfim TC

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 480 snails were collected from 3 habitats on the Mau Escarpment, Kenya, and were identified as Bulinus tropicus. Of the 351 snails examined alive in London, 75 were infected with Calicophoron microbothrium, 39 with C. microbothrium and Schistosoma bovis, 1 with S. bovis, 24 with other species of trematodes ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Southgate VR,Brown DS,Warlow A,Knowles RJ,Jones A

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the genus Crassicauda (Nematoda: Spirurida) are parasites of the body tissues of whales and dolphins. Owing to the large size of worms and difficulties in the recovery of entire nematodes from the tissues of hosts, limited information is available on morphological descriptions of both male and female worms....

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Jabbar A,Beveridge I,Bryant MS

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00