Imaging of cystic echinococcosis.

abstract：:Syphacia (Seuratoxyuris) hugoti n. sp. (Nematoda: Oxyuridae) is described from the cecum of Sooretamys angouya (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae: Oryzomyini) captured in Formosa Province, Argentina. The diagnosis of the subgenus is emended, and the new species is separated from eight congeners by the distribution of submedia...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Robles Mdel R,Panisse G,Navone GT

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In all, 40 native triatomine species and subspecies occur in NA, belonging to six genera from the Triatomini (Triatoma, Paratriatoma, Panstrongylus, Dipetalogaster, Belminus, Eratyrus), and one genus from the Rhodniini (represented by one non-native species Rhodnius prolixus, formerly occurring exclusively in domestic...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Ibarra-Cerdeña CN,Sánchez-Cordero V,Townsend Peterson A,Ramsey JM

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the occurrence of digenean trematode larvae in snails from the Kenyan part of Lake Victoria. The survey included caenogastropod snails that have received less focus in parasitological studies in Africa: their trematodes are largely unknown. Out of 1145 snail specimens, 149 (13.0%) were infected...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Outa JO,Sattmann H,Köhsler M,Walochnik J,Jirsa F

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ixodes trianguliceps, parasite of insectivores and rodent mammals seems to be distributed throughout France, except in the mediterranean low altitude areas. This tick which does not manifest any parasitic specificty, has meanwhile preferred hosts (Clethrionomys glareolus, especially). At low altitudes, it likes forest...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Gilot B,Beaucournu JC,Pautou G,Fayard A,Moncada E

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasmosis is a common and serious parasitic disease with high prevalence and global distribution in human and other warm-blooded vertebrates. Though the infection of Toxoplasma gondii is usually asymptomatic in healthy people, it can lead to severe pathological effects to the fetus of infected women and immunocomp...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Foroutan-Rad M,Khademvatan S,Majidiani H,Aryamand S,Rahim F,Malehi AS

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurocysticercosis (NC) is a serious public health problem mainly in developing countries. NC caused by the cysticercus stage from cestode Taenia solium is considered by the WHO and ITFDE as a potentially eradicable disease. Definitive diagnosis of NC is challenging because of the unspecific clinical manifestations su...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： García-Montoya GM,Mesa-Arango JA,Isaza-Agudelo JP,Agudelo-Lopez SP,Cabarcas F,Barrera LF,Alzate JF

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gut lectins of the insect vectors play important roles in the transmission of pathogens. Galactosamine, a sandfly midgut lectin inhibitor, was previously demonstrated to increase the intensity of Leishmania infection in sandflies; it was suggested that this was due to the inhibition of sandfly midgut lectin. However, ...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Svobodová M

更新日期：2000-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the use of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for diagnosis of mucosal leishmaniasis (ML) in an endemic area in Acre, Brazil, where Leishmania braziliensis is present. Leishmania DNA was detected 34 of 35 cases, yielding a positivity rate of 97.1%, which was higher than the positivity rates for all of the ot...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Oliveira JG,Novais FO,de Oliveira CI,da Cruz Junior AC,Campos LF,da Rocha AV,Boaventura V,Noronha A,Costa JM,Barral A

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diagnosis of neurocysticercosis (NCC) is complicated because of the variability in clinical presentations and course of the disease where viability of parasite is a major determinant. The present study describes evaluation of ELISAs using Taenia solium metacestode somatic and excretory-secretory (ES) antigens for dete...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Sahu PS,Parija SC,Narayan SK,Kumar D

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fish borne trematodes are an important cause of morbidity in Kazakhstan. The number of human cases of opisthorchiidosis (infection with parasites of the family opisthorchiidae) reached a peak of 2521 recorded cases (17 cases per 100,000) in 2002 with a gradual decline to 1225 cases (7.4 cases per 100,000) in 2011. Mos...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Sultanov A,Abdybekova A,Abdibaeva A,Shapiyeva Z,Yeshmuratov T,Torgerson PR

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 22,982 sandflies representing six species were collected using sticky (oiled) paper traps in Badrood rural district, Natanz county from May 1995 to May 1996. Phlebotomus papatasi was the predominant species. The average indoor resting density of P. papatasi ranged from 11.8 (May 1995) to 135.8 per 10 traps ...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Yaghoobi-Ershadi MR,Akhavan AA

更新日期：1999-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Opisthorchis viverrini infection is associated with several hepatobiliary diseases, but few reports have described extrahepatic lesions in opisthorchiasis. We therefore sequentially investigated histological changes of the gall bladder and extrahepatic bile duct in hamsters infected with 25 (group 1), 50 (group 2) and...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Sripa B,Kaewkes S

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence for the phenomenon of multiple drug resistance (MDR) in the well studied pathogenic protozoa has been examined. This has been placed in the more familiar context of the MDR efflux transporters and the cloned mdr genes of mammalian cells. Homologues of the mdr gene family in protozoa and their possible role in...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Upcroft P

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In July 1989, blood samples were collected from parasitaemic cattle in the Ghibe valley, Ethiopia, frozen in liquid nitrogen and transported to Nairobi, Kenya. Twelve of the stabilates were inoculated into individual Boran (Bos indicus) calves and characterised for their sensitivity, in turn, to diminazene aceturate (...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Codjia V,Mulatu W,Majiwa PA,Leak SG,Rowlands GJ,Authié E,d'Ieteren GD,Peregrine AS

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The many mathematical models of the transmission dynamics of schistosomes that have been published since 1965 have had little impact on field studies or on the design of schistosome control programmes. At least in part, this is due to limited interaction between theoretician and field worker, resulting in unrealistic ...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Woolhouse ME

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primaquine has been the drug of choice for the prevention of Plasmodium vivax relapse for more than 60 years. Primaquine tolerant strain of P. vivax was identified in 1944. Significant mortality and disease burden of P. vivax calls for the need of new drugs. Primaquine resistance is a complex issue, as the mechanism o...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Thomas D,Tazerouni H,Sundararaj KG,Cooper JC

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to evaluate the mosquitocidal activity of fractions and a compound niloticin from the hexane extract of Limonia acidissima L. leaves on eggs, larvae and pupae of Aedes aegypti L. (Diptera: Culicidae). In these bioassays, the eggs, larvae and pupae were exposed to concentrations of 2.5,...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Reegan AD,Gandhi MR,Paulraj MG,Balakrishna K,Ignacimuthu S

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparative study of egg morphology of Schistosoma mansoni carried out between 9 parasite populations from Guadeloupean foci demonstrates the existence of an intraspecific polymorphism. Three types of lateral spined eggs have been described and their relative proportions observed between populations are related to t...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Théron A

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of three recombinant clones containing the histone H2A locus isolated from a genomic library of Trypanosoma cruzi DNA shows that the H2A gene loci are formed by 1.2 and 0.76 kb long intercalated units organized in a head-to-tail tandem array. The difference in length between the two gene units is due to t...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Thomas MC,Olivares M,Escalante M,Marañón C,Montilla M,Nicholls S,López MC,Puerta C

更新日期：2000-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-T. dionisii and anti-T. vespertilionis monoclonal antibodies secreted by 17 hybridoma clones were tested against various strains of T. dionisii, T. vespertilionis, T. cruzi and T. cruzi marinkellei. Strain and species specific antigens were detected for the homologous immunizing strains. The common antigenic dete...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Petry K,Baltz T,Schottelius J

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptospirosis, a disease that occurs worldwide, especially in tropical regions, is caused by bacteria of the genus Leptospira and affects mammals, amphibians, and reptiles. Boa constrictor snakes are commonly found in Atlantic rainforest fragments in peri‑urban areas, which indicates a greater possibility of the conta...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Rodamilans GM,Fonseca MS,Paz LN,Fernandez CC,Biondi I,Lira-da-Silva RM,Meyer R,Pinna MH,Portela RD

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted the first meta-analysis of ten Schistosoma haematobium (one published and nine unpublished) and eight Schistosoma mansoni (two published and six unpublished) microsatellite datasets collected from individual schistosome-infected school-children across six sub-Saharan Africa countries. High levels of genet...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Gower CM,Gouvras AN,Lamberton PH,Deol A,Shrivastava J,Mutombo PN,Mbuh JV,Norton AJ,Webster BL,Stothard JR,Garba A,Lamine MS,Kariuki C,Lange CN,Mkoji GM,Kabatereine NB,Gabrielli AF,Rudge JW,Fenwick A,Sacko M,Dembel

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of the Phlebotomine sand fly community from the Venezuelan Andes was studied using null-model tests. The analyses, at the living zones and altitudes scales, revealed C-scores larger than those expected by random, independently of the collection technique (P < 0.05). These results imply that sand fly spec...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Chaves LF,Añez N

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to determine the presence of Trypanosoma cruzi in blood samples of mothers with chronic Chagas disease and their newborn by conventional PCR targeted to minicircle kinetoplastidic DNA (kDNA), and to determine the lineages in mother/newborn pairs of the congenital cases by hybridization ...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Ortiz S,Zulantay I,Solari A,Bisio M,Schijman A,Carlier Y,Apt W

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A field trial was conducted on the efficacy of Interceptor nets-a long-lasting insecticidal net (LLN) factory treated with alphacypermethrin 0.667% (w/w) corresponding to 200mg/m(2), against malaria vectors Anopheles culicifacies and Anopheles fluviatilis in one of the highly endemic areas of Orissa. The study area co...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Sharma SK,Upadhyay AK,Haque MA,Tyagi PK,Raghavendra K,Dash AP

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The parasitological techniques currently in use for the diagnosis of African trypanosomiasis were compared in a series of experiments for their capacity to detect Trypanosoma congolense, T. vivax and T. brucei in the blood of cattle. The darkground/phase contrast buffy coat method proved to be more sensitive than the ...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Paris J,Murray M,McOdimba F

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the paradigm shift from the reduction of morbidity and mortality to the interruption of transmission, the focus of malaria control broadens from symptomatic infections in children ≤5 years of age to include asymptomatic infections in older children and adults. In addition, as control efforts intensify and the num...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Doumbia SO,Ndiaye D,Koita OA,Diakité M,Nwakanma D,Coulibaly M,Traoré SF,Keating J,Milner DA Jr,Ndiaye JL,Sene PD,Ahouidi A,Dieye TN,Gaye O,Okebe J,Ceesay SJ,Ngwa A,Oriero EC,Konaté L,Sy N,Jawara M,Faye O,Kéita

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophages infected with amastigotes of Leishmania mexicana mexicana as compared to normal macrophages show decreased migration both randomly and through a 5 microns pore in response to a known chemotaxin, an increased ability to pinocytose and an increased bactericidal ability. Unless very heavily parasitized their ...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Bray RS,Heikal B,Kaye PM,Bray MA

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used previously immunized (partially resistant) and naive (highly susceptible) BALB/c mice infected with Leishmania amazonensis for evaluating the role of granulocytes in the course of murine leishmaniasis. The animals were examined at different times post-infection and granulocytes counted in lesion tissues examin...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Pompeu ML,Freitas LA,Santos ML,Khouri M,Barral-Netto M

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The promise of new interventions against malaria and other infectious diseases of global health importance derived from pathogen genomic sequence data may only be realized through the coordinated effort of genomic and post-genomics scientists, vaccine and drug developers along with lab- and field-based investigators. ...

journal_title：Acta tropica

authors： Carucci DJ

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00