The metacercariae of sibling species of Meiogymnophallus, including M. rebecqui comb. nov. (Digenea: Gymnophallidae), and their effects on closely related Cerastoderma host species (Mollusca: bivalvia).

abstract：:Changes in the hepatocytes of male hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus) and jirds (Meriones unguiculatus) at 220 days after experimental infection with the liver fluke Opisthorchis viverrini were studied by light and electron microscopy. The hepatocytes of the control group were characterized by an intracellular compartmen...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Adam R,Hinz E,Sithithaworn P,Pipitgool V,Storch V

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete coding sequence of manganese superoxide dismutase (Mn-SOD) of Trichinella pseudospiralis (Tp) was obtained and characterized for the first time by degenerative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and rapid amplification of complementary DNA ends (RACE) reactions. The open reading fram...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Wu WK,Mak CH,Ko RC

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many malaria-endemic areas are also associated with high rates of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. An understanding of the chemotherapeutic interactions that occur during malaria and HIV co-infections is important. Our previous studies have demonstrated that some antiretroviral protease inhibitors are eff...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Li X,He Z,Chen L,Li Y,Li Q,Zhao S,Tao Z,Hu W,Qin L,Chen X

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aims of this study were to examine specimens of Contracaecum rudolphii from Australian hosts, both morphologically and genetically, based on the ITS-1 and ITS-2 sequence data, to provide a re-description for the species and to investigate the genetic make-up of this species in Australia. Morphological examination ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Shamsi S,Norman R,Gasser R,Beveridge I

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaplasma phagocytophilum is an obligate intracellular bacterium that is transmitted to humans through the bite of Ixodes spp. ticks, and causes a febrile disease known as human granulocytic anaplasmosis. The presence of A. phagocytophilum in Wisconsin white-tailed deer blood and in deer ticks was assessed using PCR a...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Michalski M,Rosenfield C,Erickson M,Selle R,Bates K,Essar D,Massung R

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmania (L.) tropica is a causative agent of cutaneous and occasionally visceral or viscerotropic leishmaniasis in humans. The dose of parasites influences the course and outcome of disease in some Leishmania species. The effect of parasite dose on L. tropica infection in an experimental model was studied in the cu...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Rostamian M,Jafari D,Abolghazi M,Farahani H,Niknam HM

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of the term guild community as an intermediate level between component and supra-community proves to be advantageous within the different steps of parasite communities. It can comprise more information than a component community but researchers are able to analyse important parts of the supra-community without...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Zander CD

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hundred forty feral domestic cats trapped between 2004 and 2008 in the city centre and the suburb districts of Dubai, as well as in desert biotopes, were subjected to a complete parasitological dissection. The established parasite fauna consisted of Cystoisospora felis (12.9%), Cystoisospora rivolta (9.2%), Toxopl...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Schuster RK,Thomas K,Sivakumar S,O'Donovan D

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Chrysomya megacephala (Fabricius, 1794) (Diptera: Calliphoridae) has a worldwide distribution and is considered of medical and veterinary importance. Its synanthropic behavior combined with the visitation of decaying organic matter allows it to mechanically transmit pathogens to human and animals. Pyrethroids are ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： de Oliveira SR,Caleffe RRT,Gigliolli AAS,Moreira DR,Conte H,Ruvolo-Takasusuki MCC

更新日期：2020-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:An in vitro system for studying the transformation of bloodstream forms of Trypanosoma brucei brucei into procylic (midgut) forms is described. In this system, transformation of the parasites was stimulated by Glossina morsitans morsitans midgut homogenates at 27 degrees C but not at 4 degrees C. The transformation-st...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Imbuga MO,Osir EO,Labongo VL,Darji N,Otieno LH

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：:Toxoplasma gondii, the agent of toxoplasmosis, is an intracellular parasite that can infect a wide range of vertebrate hosts. Toxoplasmosis causes severe damage to immunocompromised hosts and its treatment is mainly based on the combination of pyrimethamine and sulfadiazine, which causes relevant side effects primaril...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Portes JA,De Souza W

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wallinia caririensis n. sp. is described from the intestine of Astyanax bimaculatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Characidae) collected in the Batateiras River in the municipality of Crato, Ceará state, Brazil. The description was based on integrative taxonomy approach using DNA sequences from the D1-D3 domains of the 28S rDNA ge...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： da Silva BAF,Dias KGA,da Silva RJ,Yamada FH

更新日期：2020-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:During a parasitological survey of two non-native fish species-racer goby Neogobius gymnotrachelus and monkey goby Neogobius fluviatilis-in the Włocławek Reservoir on the lower Vistula River, the monogenean Gyrodactylus proterorhini was recorded for the first time in Poland, and for the first time, the racer goby was ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Mierzejewska K,Martyniak A,Kakareko T,Dzika E,Stańczak K,Hliwa P

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of redial burden and cercarial shedding were studied in two groups of Lymnaea truncatula subjected to successive cross-exposures to one miracidium of Paramphistomum daubneyi and one of Fasciola hepatica per snail, or vice versa. The results were compared with those obtained in controls subjected to two...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Augot D,Abrous M,Rondelaud D,Dreyfuss G

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the in vitro effect of increasing gliotoxin concentrations on the infectivity of Toxoplasma gondii for NIH-3T3 murine fibroblasts and on Toxoplasma chymotrypsin-like activity, which is specific to the proteasome. Parasite penetration of host cells was not modified by a high gliotoxin concentration (1 micro...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Paugam A,Creuzet C,Dupouy-Camet J,Roisin P

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:WD40-repeat proteins have four to eight repeating units flanked by Gly-His (GH) and Trp-Asp (WD) at both termini and folds into a beta-propeller. A polypeptide deduced from a Clonorchis sinensis cDNA clone analyzed to have seven WD40-repeats and predicted to form a beta-propeller (CsWD1). The CsWD1 protein was express...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Cho PY,Kim TI,Yoo WG,Li S,Hong SJ,Kim TY,Park YS,Song KY,Choi MH,Hong ST,Chung YJ,LoVerde PT,Osman A

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An experiment was conducted to study the adjuvant effect of ginsomes on the recombinant profilin in coccidian-infected breeding birds. Three-day-old chickens were vaccinated with Eimeria tenella recombinant profilin antigen (10, 50, and 100 μg per chicken) with or without 50 μg ginsomes per chicken. The boost vaccinat...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Zhang DF,Xu H,Sun BB,Li JQ,Zhou QJ,Zhang HL,Du AF

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An endopeptidase specific to the Plasmodium falciparum erythrocytic schizont stage and to free merozoites was detected using the fluorogenic GlcA-Val-Leu-Gly-Lys(or Arg)-AEC substrate. The enzyme was purified by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC); its optimal activity was around pH 7.5 and its isoelectric p...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Grellier P,Picard I,Bernard F,Mayer R,Heidrich HG,Monsigny M,Schrével J

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiostrongylus vasorum is a metastrongyloid nematode that may cause cardiopulmonary disease, neurological signs and coagulopathies in dogs. The parasite has an indirect life cycle with molluscs as intermediate hosts, in which the infective third larval stage develops. Recently, A. vasorum has been repeatedly reported...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Hurníková Z,Miterpáková M,Mandelík R

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sarcocystis neurona is the parasite associated with equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM). Recently, cats (Felis domesticus) have been implicated as a potential intermediate host in the life cycle of S. neurona. This study was initiated to determine whether cats have antibodies that react to S. neurona antigens sim...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Turay HO,Barr BC,Caldwell A,Branson KR,Cockrell MK,Marsh AE

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rodents have been widely studied as intermediate hosts of Sarcocystis; however, only a few reports on these parasites in the black rat (Rattus rattus) are known. Having examined 13 black rats captured in Latvia, sarcocysts were found in skeletal muscles of two mammals and were described as Sarcocystis ratti n. sp. Und...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Prakas P,Kirillova V,Gavarāne I,Grāvele E,Butkauskas D,Rudaitytė-Lukošienė E,Kirjušina M

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of emodepside plus toltrazuril (Procox® oral suspension for dogs) against different species of gastrointestinal nematodes (Toxocara canis, Ancylostoma caninum, Uncinaria stenocephala) was evaluated in nine randomised,blinded and placebo-controlled laboratory studies in naturally or experimentally infected...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Schimmel A,Schroeder I,Altreuther G,Settje T,Charles S,Wolken S,Kok DJ,Ketzis J,Young D,Hutchens D,Krieger KJ

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little information is available on the occurrence of endoparasites in pet guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of intestinal parasites in cavies kept as pets in southern Italy. Fresh fecal samples were randomly collected from 60 guinea pigs housed in pet shops or priv...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： d'Ovidio D,Noviello E,Ianniello D,Cringoli G,Rinaldi L

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atmospheric observations demonstrate that, during the last decades, the climate has changed. As reported by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2001, 2007), a mean increase of temperature by 0.09 K per decade was observed globally from 1951 to 1989. Up to now, 2008, this trend has continued. Europe ex...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Jacob D

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In latest years, the importance of the Melaleuca alternifolia essential oil (EO) has been greatly empathised due to its anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory effects, as well as to its toxic properties towards many arthropods of great medical and veterinary importance. In this research, the EO extracted from aerial par...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Conti B,Flamini G,Cioni PL,Ceccarini L,Macchia M,Benelli G

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water buffalo is important livestock in several countries in the Latin American and Caribbean regions. This buffalo species can be infected by tick-borne hemoparasites and remains a carrier of these pathogens which represent a risk of infection for more susceptible species like cattle. Therefore, studies on the epidem...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Obregón D,Cabezas-Cruz A,Armas Y,Silva JB,Fonseca AH,André MR,Alfonso P,Oliveira MCS,Machado RZ,Corona-González B

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed extra chromosomal genomes of avian blood protozoa, Leucocytozoon caulleryi. One of the genomes, the mitochondrial genome was completely sequenced resulting 5,959 bp in length. This genome contained the identical gene organization and contents to that of other avian blood protozoa previously analyzed: three...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Omori S,Sato Y,Hirakawa S,Isobe T,Yukawa M,Murata K

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Capillaria hepatica (syn. Calodium hepaticum) is a globally distributed nematode with a high affinity to the liver of a wide range of mammalian hosts, including humans. Documented reports of the nematode in cats and associated histopathology are rare. Here, we describe a case of C. hepatica infection in a 5-year-old m...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Sazmand A,Khordadmehr M,Nourian A,Otranto D

更新日期：2021-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A molecular phylogenetic hypothesis is presented for the genus Trichuris based on sequence data from mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase 1 (cox1) and cytochrome b (cob). The taxa consisted of nine populations of whipworm from five species of Sigmodontinae rodents from Argentina. Bayesian Inference, Maximum Parsimony, a...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Callejón R,Robles Mdel R,Panei CJ,Cutillas C

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00