Purification of a 64 kDa antigen from Trypanosoma evansi that exhibits cross-reactivity with Trypanosoma vivax.

abstract：:The recent development of genetic methods allows the delineation of species boundaries, especially in organisms where morphological characters are not reliable to differentiate species. However, few empirical studies have used these tools to delineate species among parasitic metazoans. Here we investigate the species ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Pérez-Ponce DE León G,García-Varela M,Pinacho-Pinacho CD,Sereno-Uribe AL,Poulin R

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Avian malaria is a vector transmitted disease caused by Plasmodium and recent studies suggest that variation in its prevalence across avian hosts is correlated with a variety of ecological traits. Here we examine the relationship between prevalence and diversity of Plasmodium lineages in southeastern Amazonia and: (1)...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Fecchio A,Ellis VA,Bell JA,Andretti CB,D'Horta FM,Silva AM,Tkach VV,Weckstein JD

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A delayed gamma distribution satisfactorily described the distribution of times to hatching of Ostertagia circumcincta eggs incubated in 0.1% saline at temperatures between 6 and 20 degrees C. Below 6 degree C hatching of eggs was extremely variable. The relationship between rates of development and temperature within...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Young RR,Anderson N,Overend D,Tweedie RL,Malafant KW,Preston GA

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most, if not all, organisms face attack by natural enemies and will be selected to evolve some form of defence. Resistance may have costs as well as its obvious benefits. These costs may be associated with actual defence or with the maintenance of the defensive machinery irrespective of whether a challenge occurs. In ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kraaijeveld AR,Ferrari J,Godfray HC

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The isolation of 2 genomic clones has allowed us to further characterize a Schistosoma mansoni serine protease designated SmSP1. The deduced amino acid sequence (248aa) considered as a 'light chain' encoding the active site, presents significant homologies with mouse plasma kallikrein and human factor I light chain. T...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Cocude C,Pierrot C,Cêtre C,Fontaine J,Godin C,Capron A,Khalife J

更新日期：1999-04-01 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：: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：:Blood examination by microhaematocrit and haemoculture of 459 snakes belonging to 37 species revealed 2.4% trypanosome prevalence in species of Viperidae (Crotalus durissus and Bothrops jararaca) and Colubridae (Pseudoboa nigra). Trypanosome cultures from C. durissus and P. nigra were behaviourally and morphologically...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Viola LB,Campaner M,Takata CS,Ferreira RC,Rodrigues AC,Freitas RA,Duarte MR,Grego KF,Barrett TV,Camargo EP,Teixeira MM

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A deterministic mathematical model which predicts the probability of developing a new drug-resistant parasite population within the human host is reported. The model incorporates the host's specific antibody response to PfEMP1, and also investigates the influence of chemotherapy on the probability of developing a viab...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Gatton ML,Hogarth W,Saul A

更新日期：2001-12-01 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 transmission success of Onchocerca volvulus is thought to be influenced by a variety of regulatory or density-dependent processes that act at various points in the two-host life-cycle. This paper examines one component of the life-cycle, namely, the ingestion of microfilariae by the simuliid vector, to assess the ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Basáñez MG,Boussinesq M,Prod'hon J,Frontado H,Villamizar NJ,Medley GF,Anderson RM

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Promastigotes of Leishmania braziliensis panamensis absorbed the purines adenine, hypoxanthine, adenosine and inosine by a combination of diffusion and mediated components. When the uptake rates for these substrates were corrected for diffusion and compared, the purine bases adenine and hypoxanthine were transported a...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Hansen BD,Perez-Arbelo J,Walkony JF,Hendricks LD

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Life-cycle stages of the microsporidia Nosema bombycis, the pathogen causing silkworm pebrine, were separated and purified by an improved method of Percoll-gradient centrifugation. Soluble protein fractions of late sporoblasts (spore precursor cells) and mature spores were analysed by two-dimensional polyacrylamide ge...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Cai S,Lu X,Qiu H,Li M,Feng Z

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of the 7 genetic assemblages of the parasite Giardia duodenalis only 2 (A and B) are known to cause infections in humans. These assemblages have been characterized in detail at the genomic level but few studies have examined differences in the proteins expressed. Employing one and two-dimensional PAGE we have identifi...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Steuart RF,O'Handley R,Lipscombe RJ,Lock RA,Thompson RC

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurological involvement following trypanosome infection has been recognised for over a century. However, there are still many unanswered questions concerning the mechanisms used by the parasite to gain entry to the CNS and the pathogenesis of the resulting neuroinflammatory reaction. There is a paucity of material fr...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Rodgers J

更新日期：2010-12-01 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：:BALB/c mice were characterized as more resistant to infection with Heligmosomoides polygyrus (Nematoda) than C57BL/6 mice based on lower establishment and survival during a primary infection and stronger protection induced by an immunizing regime. It was hypothesized, therefore, that C57BL/6 mice would be more heavily...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Scott ME

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High levels of molecular diversity were identified in mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase (cox1) gene sequences of Schistosoma turkestanicum from Hungary. These cox1 sequences were all specific to Hungary which contrasted with the low levels of diversity seen in the nuclear internal transcribed spacer region (ITS) sequ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Lawton SP,Bowen LI,Emery AM,Majoros G

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasites often induce behavioural changes in their host. However, it is not necessarily easy to determine whether these changes are representative of an adaptation of the parasite (parasite manipulation), an adaptive response of the host or a side-effect of infection. In a solitary parasitoid of Drosophila larvae (Le...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Varaldi J,Petit S,Boulétreau M,Fleury F

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intact, viable adults, infective and newborn larvae of Trichinella pseudospiralis were surface labelled with 125I by the chloramine T method and labelled proteins were compared with those obtained from equivalent stages of T. spiralis. Electron-microscope autoradiography determined that labelled proteins were restrict...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Almond NM,McLaren DJ,Parkhouse RM

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The public health significance of hookworm disease is briefly reviewed. The latest evidence confirms that blood loss caused by the worms' feeding activity in the gut is a contributing factor in the development of poor iron status leading to iron-deficiency anaemia. The World Health Organization has identified adolesce...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Crompton DW

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of host specificity and the potential trade-off between being a generalist and a specialist are central issues in the evolutionary ecology of parasites. Different species of parasites or even different populations of the same species often show different degrees of host specificity. However, less is know...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Leung TL,Poulin R

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SUMMARY The necessity to easily establish Histomonas meleagridis cultures has been underlined extensively by many researchers in order to gain more insights in the biology of H. meleagridis. In addition the occurrence of different protozoa in the caeca of birds impedes, however, the isolation and propagation of H. mel...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Pham AD,Mast J,DE Gussem JK,McDougald LR,Goddeeris BM

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Strongyloides ratti-infected rats, 2 peaks of egg excretion were observed; a large one with maximum egg production on days 7-8 of infection and a small more inconspicuous one around day 25. The second peak, which had been ignored in most studies, was produced by adults in the caecum and the colon. The adults were l...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kimura E,Shintoku Y,Kadosaka T,Fujiwara M,Kondo S,Itoh M

更新日期：1999-08-01 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：:Amoebiasis, infection by the protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica, remains a global health problem, despite the availability of effective treatment. While improved sanitation could lead to the eradication of this disease, it is unlikely that this will occur worldwide in the foreseeable future; thus alternative mea...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Stanley SL Jr

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the molar content of guanine + cytosine (GC content) of DNA of the filarial nematode (Brugia malayi, Brugia pahangi and Dirofilaria imitis) and of the free-living soil nematodes Caenorhabditis elegans and have analysed the DNA for the presence of methylcytosine. Two independent methods, thermal dena...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Rothstein N,Stoller TJ,Rajan TV

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

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：:Tubulin is the predominant phosphoprotein in Trypanosoma cruzi epimastigotes and is phosphorylated by a protein kinase CK2. Interestingly, the presence or absence of divalent cations affected the solubilization of a pool of the parasite tubulin and the CK2 responsible for its phosphorylation. This fraction of tubulin ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： De Lima AR,Medina R,Uzcanga GL,Noris Suárez K,Contreras VT,Navarro MC,Arteaga R,Bubis J

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present observational and experimental evidence that cycles of the Lyme disease spirochaete, Borrelia burgdorferi s.l., can be maintained by sheep in the virtual absence of alternative hosts. A 2-year field study in upland moorland habitats of northwest UK established that sheep feed up to 80% of larval, > 99% of n...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Ogden NH,Nuttall PA,Randolph SE

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00