A radiometric analysis of nitric oxide synthase activity in Hymenolepis diminuta.

abstract：:Two natural human interferon alpha preparations, (nHuIFN-alpha [Cantell]) and (nHuIFN-alpha [ISI]), were used for the oral treatment of cattle experimentally infected with Theileria parva parva. In the first experiment, 8 Friesian bulls were inoculated with a 1 in 10 dilution of a sporozoite stabilate of T.p. parva (M...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Young AS,Maritim AC,Kariuki DP,Stagg DA,Wafula JM,Mutugi JJ,Cummins JM,Richards AB,Burns C

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosoma brucei is the causative agent of African sleeping sickness in humans and one of several pathogens that cause the related veterinary disease Nagana. A complex co-evolution has occurred between these parasites and primates that led to the emergence of trypanosome-specific defences and counter-measures. The f...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Capewell P,Cooper A,Clucas C,Weir W,Macleod A

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) appearance of the brain and spinal cord in humans with neuroangiostrongyliasis (NA) due to Angiostrongylus cantonensis infection has been well reported. Equivalent studies in animals are lacking. This case series describes clinical and MRI findings in 11 dogs with presumptively or ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Wun MK,Malik R,Yu J,Chow KE,Lau M,Podadera JM,Webster N,Lee R,Šlapeta J,Davies S

更新日期：2020-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive parasites can spill over to new hosts in invaded ecosystems with often unpredictable trophic relationships in the newly arising parasite-host interactions. In European seas, the intestinal copepod Mytilicola orientalis was co-introduced with Pacific oysters (Magallana gigas) and spilled over to native blue mu...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Goedknegt MA,Shoesmith D,Jung AS,Luttikhuizen PC,van der Meer J,Philippart CJM,van der Veer HW,Thieltges DW

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between December 2007 and March 2009, small mammals were captured in 6 Atlantic Forest patches in Brazil. We assessed tick-host associations and whether they differ among forest strata, sites, seasons, and host age classes or between sexes. Moreover, we assessed the exposure of animals to Rickettsia spp. In total, 432...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Dantas-Torres F,Aléssio FM,Siqueira DB,Mauffrey JF,Marvulo MF,Martins TF,Moraes-Filho J,Camargo MC,D'Auria SR,Labruna MB,Silva JC

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This cross-sectional study aimed to determine the prevalence and risk factors of S. stercoralis infection among 1142 Orang Asli primary schoolchildren in six different states of Peninsular Malaysia. Fecal samples were examined using direct smear, formalin-ether sedimentation (FES), agar plate culture (APC) and PCR tec...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Al-Mekhlafi HM,Nasr NA,Lim YAL,Elyana FN,Sady H,Atroosh WM,Dawaki S,Anuar TS,Noordin R,Mahmud R

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal infections by parasitic ciliates were studied in adult snails of Helix aspersa aspersa and Helix aspersa maxima collected from 2 mixed rearing system-based heliciculture farms located in Galicia (NW Spain). The occurrence of ciliates was also examined in slugs (Deroceras reticulatum) invading the greenhouses whe...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Segade P,Kher CP,Lynn DH,Iglesias R

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the component community of lung-worms of the harbour porpoise, attempting to establish the relative importance of ecological and evolutionary factors on its development. The lungs of 64 porpoises by-caught in Norwegian waters were examined for helminths. Three pseudaliid species were detected. The porpoises...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Balbuena JA,Aspholm PE,Andersen KI,Bjørge A

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The parasitic roundworms Strongyloides stercoralis (in man) and Strongyloides ratti (in rats) employ environmentally controlled XX/XO sex determination with a pair of X chromosomes and two pairs of autosomes. Strongyloides papillosus (in sheep) has only two pairs of chromosomes, one of which combines the genetic mater...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kulkarni A,Dyka A,Nemetschke L,Grant WN,Streit A

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose uptake was examined in adult specimens of Proterometra macrostoma (Trematoda: Digenea) recovered from the stomach (endoparasites) and gills (ectoparasites) of longear sunfish, Lepomis megalotis. The endoparasitic forms transported glucose directly through the external body surface by Na+-independent, facilitat...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Uglem GL

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many clinically useful antibacterial drugs have intracellular target sites. Therefore, in order to reach their targets, these compounds must be able to cross bacterial outer and cytoplasmic membranes. Considerable information is available on the mechanisms by which antibiotics cross bacterial membranes and, in many ca...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Chopra I

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glycolytic enzyme triosephosphate isomerase catalyses the isomerization between glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate and dihydroxyacetone phosphate. Here we report that Trichomonas vaginalis contains 2 fully functional tpi genes. Both genes are located in separated chromosomal context with different promoter regulatory elem...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Figueroa-Angulo EE,Estrella-Hernández P,Salgado-Lugo H,Ochoa-Leyva A,Gómez Puyou A,Campos SS,Montero-Moran G,Ortega-López J,Saab-Rincón G,Arroyo R,Benítez-Cardoza CG,Brieba LG

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surface proteins and glycoproteins of red cells from Plasmodium berghei-infected blood have been radio-isotope labelled and compared with those of normal mouse erythrocytes using the following protein labelling probes: lactoperoxidase-catalysed radio-iodination of tyrosyl residues, periodate oxidation and NaB3H4 r...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Howard RJ,Smith PM,Mitchell GF

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anthelmintic properties of tanniferous plants and of their secondary metabolites represent one possible alternative to chemotherapy that is currently being explored as a means of achieving sustainable control of gastrointestinal nematodes in ruminants. Previous in vivo and in vitro results suggest that tanniferous...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Bahuaud D,Martinez-Ortiz de Montellano C,Chauveau S,Prevot F,Torres-Acosta F,Fouraste I,Hoste H

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the distribution of Trypanosoma cruzi Discrete Typing Units (DTUs) in domestic and peridomestic Triatoma infestans and Triatoma sordida specimens collected in a well-defined rural area in Pampa del Indio, northeastern Argentina. Microscopically-positive bugs were randomly selected with a multi-level sampli...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Maffey L,Cardinal MV,Ordóñez-Krasnowski PC,Lanati LA,Lauricella MA,Schijman AG,Gürtler RE

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Susceptability of Ascaridia galli to benzimidazole (BZ) was investigated using faecal egg count reduction test (FECRT), in ovo larval development test (LDT) and genetic markers (mutations at codons 167, 198 and 200 of β-tubulin gene). Six flocks (F1-F6) of a commercial laying hen farm with different number of exposure...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Tarbiat B,Jansson DS,Tydén E,Höglund J

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The abundance of Profilicollis botulus was monitored in eider ducks for 3 years. No significant difference in P. botulus abundance was found between eiders taken alive and those collected dead from the shore line, or between adult males and adult females. Adult male eiders had a seasonal pattern of infection. Incubati...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Thompson AB

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological parameters which generate seasonal fluctuations in the size of populations of Caryophyllaeus laticeps are examined in detail. A mathematical model is formulated to describe the dynamics of the adult parasite within the fish host Abramis brama, and the predictions of the model are compared with observed ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Anderson RM

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pentastomid parasite, Raillietiella frenata, is native to Asia where it infects the Asian House gecko, Hemidactylus frenatus. This gecko has been widely introduced and recently R. frenata was found in introduced populations of cane toads (Rhinella marina) in Australia, indicating a host-switch from introduced geck...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kelehear C,Saltonstall K,Torchin ME

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cats were repeatedly inoculated with infective larvae of Brugia pahangi. On parasitological grounds they could be divided into 5 groups. Group I--most cats (some 70%) became microfilaraemic (mf+) and retained high levels of microfilariae (mf) in their blood for over 2 years. In some Group I cats mf counts stabilized a...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Denham DA,Medeiros F,Baldwin C,Kumar H,Midwinter IC,Birch DW,Smail A

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of the electrical properties of neurons in the motornervous system of Ascaris sutom suggests that it is largely an analogue system. The motorneurons do not conduct action potentials and they release transmitter tonically at their normal resting potential; transmitter release is increased or decreased as a con...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Davis RE,Stretton AO

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey was carried out to determine values for the prevalence and intensity of infection of intestinal helminths in children living in Cocle Province, Republic of Panama. The data set consisted of the results of microscopic examinations (modified Kato Katz technique) of stool samples collected in November 1987 from ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Robertson LJ,Crompton DW,Walters DE,Nesheim MC,Sanjur D,Walsh EA

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early in the history of schistosomiasis research, children under 5 years of age were known to be infected. Although this problem was recognized over 100 years ago, insufficient action has been taken to address this issue. Under current policy, such infected children only receive their first antiparasitic treatment (pr...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Bustinduy AL,Wright S,Joekes EC,Kabatereine NB,Reinhard-Rupp J,King CH,Stothard JR

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Part of Robert T. Leiper's (1881-1969) lasting legacy in medical helminthology is grounded on his pioneering work on schistosomiasis (Bilharzia). Having undertaken many expeditions to the tropics, his fascination with parasite life cycles typically allowed him to devise simple preventive measures that curtailed transm...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Stothard JR,Kabatereine NB,Archer J,Al-Shehri H,Tchuem-Tchuenté LA,Gyapong M,Bustinduy AL

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigenic differences between intra-lymphocytic theilerial parasites isolated from the blood of 18 African buffalo and grown in vitro were assessed with anti-schizont monoclonal antibodies (mAbs). There was marked antigenic diversity both between isolates from different buffalo and between isolates taken at different ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Conrad PA,Stagg DA,Grootenhuis JG,Irvin AD,Newson J,Njamunggeh RE,Rossiter PB,Young AS

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:West-central China is an important endemic focus of both alveolar and cystic echinococcosis where several species of intermediate host are commonly infected with Echinococcus granulosus and E. multilocularis . Isolates of E. granulosus were collected from humans and other animals from different geographical areas of Q...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Yang YR,Rosenzvit MC,Zhang LH,Zhang JZ,McManus DP

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-mesocyclic development of Trypanosoma brucei in the tsetse fly in its migration from midgut to salivary glands, was revisited by sequential microdissection, morphometry and DNA-cytofluorometry. This development started by day 6 after the infective feed, with passage of mesocyclic midgut trypomastigotes through pr...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Van Den Abbeele J,Claes Y,van Bockstaele D,Le Ray D,Coosemans M

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Past and more recent research has examined the ultrastructure, metabolism, cell biology, genomics and post-genomics of schistosome schistosomula. These areas are considered and discussed in this review with particular emphasis on (1) the early migration phases through the host, (2) interaction of the host immune respo...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Gobert GN,Chai M,McManus DP

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Digenean parasites infecting four Cominella whelk species (C. glandiformis, C. adspersa, C. maculosa and C. virgata), which inhabit New Zealand's intertidal zone, were analysed using molecular techniques. Mitochondrial 16S and cytochrome oxidase 1 (COI) and nuclear rDNA ITS1 sequences were used to infer phylogenetic r...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Donald KM,Spencer HG

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theileria annulata infects and reversibly transforms bovine leucocytes. The parasite-transformed cells are immortalized, metastatic and express a number of metalloproteinases including matrix metalloproteinase 9 which they secrete. All the metalloproteinases observed on substrate gels are inhibited by tissue inhibitor...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Adamson RE,Hall FR

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00