abstract：:We studied the monogenean communities of 34 species of butterflyfish from the tropical Indo-West Pacific, identifying 13 dactylogyrid species (including two species that are presently undescribed). Monogenean assemblages differed significantly between host species in terms of taxonomic structure, intensity and prevale...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Reverter M,Cutmore SC,Bray R,Cribb TH,Sasal P

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of introduced hosts can increase or decrease infections of co-introduced parasites in native species of conservation concern. In this study, we compared parasite abundance, intensity, and prevalence between native Awaous stamineus and introduced poeciliid fishes by a co-introduced nematode parasite (Camal...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Gagne RB,Heins DC,McIntyre PB,Gilliam JF,Blum MJ

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trophically transmitted parasites must trade-off own growth on one hand and energy drain from the intermediate host on the other hand, since killing the host before transmission to the next host is a dead end for both parasites and hosts. This challenge becomes especially intriguing when multiple parasites find themse...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Nordeide JT,Matos F

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, a recombinant aminopeptidase P (rTgAPP) from Toxoplasma gondii was expressed in Escherichia coli to evaluate its enzyme parameters. The rTgAPP showed strong activity against a synthetic substrate for aminopeptidase P at pH 8·0 with a K m value of 0·255 µ m and a k cat value of 35·6 s-1. The overa...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Yang M,Zheng J,Jia H,Song M

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, through a national programme for schistosomiasis control, this infection has been eliminated from Iran. The aim of this study was to report the process of significant decrease of urogenital schistosomiasis in southwestern Iran. During national programme surveillance for urogenital schistosomiasis cont...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Khademvatan S,Salmanzadeh S,Foroutan-Rad M,Ghomeshi M

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenotypic activity of two 5-nitroindazolinones, i.e. 2-benzyl-1-propyl (22) and 2-benzyl-1-butyl (24) derivatives, previously proposed as anti-Trypanosoma cruzi prototypes, was presently assayed on bloodstream trypomastigotes (BT) of the moderately drug-resistant Y strain. Further exploration of putative targets ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Fonseca-Berzal C,DA Silva CF,Menna-Barreto RF,Batista MM,Escario JA,Arán VJ,Gómez-Barrio A,Soeiro Mde N

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiostrongylus cantonensis is a metastrongyloid nematode found widely in the Asia-Pacific region, and the aetiological agent of angiostrongyliasis; a disease characterized by eosinophilic meningitis. Rattus rats are definitive hosts of A. cantonensis, while intermediate hosts include terrestrial and aquatic molluscs....

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Barratt J,Chan D,Sandaradura I,Malik R,Spielman D,Lee R,Marriott D,Harkness J,Ellis J,Stark D

更新日期：2016-08-01 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：:Trypanosoma cruzi, causative agent of Chagas disease, co-infects its triatomine vector with its sister species Trypanosoma rangeli, which shares 60% of its antigens with T. cruzi. Additionally, T. rangeli has been observed to be pathogenic in some of its vector species. Although T. cruzi-T. rangeli co-infections are c...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Peterson JK,Graham AL,Elliott RJ,Dobson AP,Triana Chávez O

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Anaplasma species are important globally distributed tick-transmitted bacteria of veterinary and public health importance. These pathogens, cause anaplasmosis in domestic and wild animal species including humans. Rhipicephalus, Ixodes, Dermacentor and Amblyomma genera of ticks are the important vectors of Anaplasm...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Atif FA

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myxozoans have been successfully used as tags for fish stock identification around the world. However, few studies using myxozoan tags have been carried out in the Southern Atlantic, a region with complex oceanography that constitutes a potentially suitable scenario for testing the utility of myxozoans as indicators. ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Cantatore DM,Irigoitia MM,Holzer AS,Timi JT

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants containing condensed tannins (CT) may have potential to control gastrointestinal nematodes (GIN) of cattle. The aim was to investigate the anthelmintic activities of four flavan-3-ols, two galloyl derivatives and 14 purified CT fractions, and to define which structural features of CT determine the anti-parasiti...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Desrues O,Fryganas C,Ropiak HM,Mueller-Harvey I,Enemark HL,Thamsborg SM

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii and Sarcocystis neurona are protozoan parasites with terrestrial definitive hosts, and both pathogens can cause fatal disease in a wide range of marine animals. Close monitoring of threatened southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis) in California allowed for the diagnosis of dual transplacental tr...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Shapiro K,Miller MA,Packham AE,Aguilar B,Conrad PA,Vanwormer E,Murray MJ

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reproductive effort of Lepeophtheirus pectoralis (Müller O. F., 1776), a caligid copepod, which is commonly found infecting the European flounder, Platichthys flesus (Linnaeus, 1758), is studied in detail for the first time. Seasonal variation in body dimensions and reproductive effort are analysed. Data for 120 o...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Frade DG,Santos MJ,Cavaleiro FI

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virulence factors from the ROP2-family have been extensively studied in Toxoplasma gondii, but in the closely related Neospora caninum only NcROP2Fam-1 has been partially characterized to date. NcROP40 is a member of this family and was found to be more abundantly expressed in virulent isolates. Both NcROP2Fam-1 and N...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Pastor-Fernández I,Regidor-Cerrillo J,Jiménez-Ruiz E,Álvarez-García G,Marugán-Hernández V,Hemphill A,Ortega-Mora LM

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Host behavioural modification by parasites is a common and well-documented phenomenon. However, knowledge on the complexity and specificity of the underlying mechanisms is limited, and host specificity among manipulating parasites has rarely been experimentally verified. We tested the hypothesis that the ability to in...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Hernandez RN,Fredensborg BL

更新日期：2015-11-01 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：:Prevention of heartworm disease caused by Dirofilaria immitis in domestic dogs and cats relies on a single drug class, the macrocyclic lactones (MLs). Recently, it has been demonstrated that ML-resistant D. immitis are circulating in the Mississippi Delta region of the USA, but the prevalence and impact of these resis...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Wolstenholme AJ,Evans CC,Jimenez PD,Moorhead AR

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological rate parameters of host generalist parasites are difficult to estimate, especially in cases where variation in parasite performance can be attributed to host species. Such cases are likely common for generalist parasites of sympatric grazing mammals. In this study, we combined data from experimental ex...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Beck MA,Goater CP,Colwell DD

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal diarrheagenic polyparasitic infections are among the major public health concerns in developing countries. Here we examined stool specimens by microscopy, DNA dot blot and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to evaluate the co-infection of four principal protozoans among amoebic dysentery cases from Northeast I...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Nath J,Hussain G,Singha B,Paul J,Ghosh SK

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diversity and prevalence of malaria parasites of the genera Plasmodium and Haemoproteus were determined in the globally-threatened Aquatic Warbler Acrocephalus paludicola. Birds were sampled during migration in Portugal and at the wintering quarters in Senegal and parasites were detected using molecular methods. O...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Neto JM,Pérez-Rodríguez A,Haase M,Flade M,Bensch S

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasite-host interactions mediated by cell surface proteins have been implicated as a critical step in infections caused by the microsporidian Nosema bombycis. Such cell surface proteins are considered as promising diagnostic markers and targets for drug development. However, little research has specifically addresse...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Zhao W,Hao Y,Wang L,Zhou Z,Li Z

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurately identifying resistance to gastrointestinal nematode infections requires the ability to identify animals with low and high intensities of infection. The pathogenic effects of nematodes depend upon both the length and number of worms, neither of which can be measured in live animals. Indices that predict thes...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Mair C,Matthews L,De Cisneros JP,Stefan T,Stear MJ

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：: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 genomes of more than 20 helminths have now been sequenced. Here we perform a meta-analysis of all sequenced genomes of nematodes and Platyhelminthes, and attempt to address the question of what are the defining characteristics of helminth genomes. We find that parasitic worms lack systems for surface antigenic var...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Zarowiecki M,Berriman M

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasites have a major impact on global finfish and shellfish aquaculture, having significant effects on farm production, sustainability and economic viability. Parasite infections and impacts can, according to pathogen and context, be considered to be either unpredictable/sporadic or predictable/regular. Although bot...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Shinn AP,Pratoomyot J,Bron JE,Paladini G,Brooker EE,Brooker AJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of parasites as biological tags to discriminate among marine fish stocks has become a widely accepted method in fisheries management. Here, we first link this approach to its unstated ecological foundation, the decay in the similarity of the species composition of assemblages as a function of increasing distan...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Poulin R,Kamiya T

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many marine fisheries in South American Atlantic coasts (SAAC) are threatened by overfishing and under serious risk of collapsing. The SAAC comprises a diversity of environments, possesses a complex oceanography and harbours a vast biodiversity that provide an enormous potential for using parasites as biological tags ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Cantatore DM,Timi JT

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a longitudinal study investigating the dynamics of malaria in Ugandan lakeshore communities, a consistently high malaria prevalence was observed in young children despite regular treatment. To explore the short-term performance of artemether-lumefantrine (AL), a pilot investigation into parasite carriage after ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Betson M,Sousa-Figueiredo JC,Atuhaire A,Arinaitwe M,Adriko M,Mwesigwa G,Nabonge J,Kabatereine NB,Sutherland CJ,Stothard JR

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Philasterides dicentrarchi causes a severe disease in turbot, and at present there are no drugs available to treat infected fish. We have previously demonstrated that, in addition to the classical respiratory pathway, P. dicentrarchi possesses an alternative mitochondrial respiratory pathway that is cyanide-insensitiv...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Mallo N,Lamas J,Leiro JM

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nematodes are amongst the most successful and abundant organisms on the planet with approximately 30 000 species described, although the actual number of species is estimated to be one million or more. Despite sharing a relatively simple and invariant body plan, there is considerable diversity within the phylum. Nemat...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Gillan V,Devaney E

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SUMMARY Leishmania are protozoan parasites spread by a sandfly insect vector and causing a spectrum of diseases collectively known as leishmaniasis. The disease is a significant health problem in many parts of the world, resulting in an estimated 1·3 million new cases and 30 000 deaths annually. Current treatment is b...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kedzierski L,Evans KJ

更新日期：2014-07-30 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：:Strongyloidiasis is frequently asymptomatic and diagnosis of latent infection is difficult due to limitations of current parasitological and serological methods. This study aimed to verify the use of conventional polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay for molecular diagnosis of Strongyloides stercoralis infection. Fres...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Sitta RB,Malta FM,Pinho JR,Chieffi PP,Gryschek RC,Paula FM

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the prevalence of Taenia solium cysticercosis in patients with neurological disorders in Slovenia, serum/cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples from 348 suspected patients were collected between the beginning of January 2001 and the end of December 2012 and analysed serologically for the presence of anti-T. soliu...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Šoba B,Beović B,Lužnik Z,Skvarč M,Logar J

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cumulative effect of co-infections between pathogen pairs on the haematological response of East African Short-horn Zebu calves is described. Using a longitudinal study design a stratified clustered random sample of newborn calves were recruited into the Infectious Diseases of East African Livestock (IDEAL) study ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Van Wyk IC,Goddard A,de C Bronsvoort BM,Coetzer JA,Handel IG,Hanotte O,Jennings A,Lesosky M,Kiara H,Thumbi SM,Toye P,Woolhouse MW,Penzhorn BL

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasmosis is largely present in rural areas but its spatial distribution in this environment remains poorly known. In particular, it is unclear if areas of high density of cats, the only hosts excreting Toxoplasma gondii, constitute foci of high prevalence. To improve our understanding of the spatial distribution ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Gotteland C,Chaval Y,Villena I,Galan M,Geers R,Aubert D,Poulle ML,Charbonnel N,Gilot-Fromont E

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated spatial variation in the phylogenetic structure of host spectra in fleas parasitic on small mammals. Measures of phylogenetic host specificity ((phylogenetic species clustering (PSC) and phylogenetic species variability (PSV)) varied significantly more between than within flea species, but the proporti...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Krasnov BR,Pilosof S,Shenbrot GI,Khokhlova IS,Degen AA

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In light of the low success rate of target-based genomics and HTS (High Throughput Screening) approaches in anti-infective drug discovery, in silico structure-based drug design (SBDD) is becoming increasingly prominent at the forefront of drug discovery. In silico SBDD can be used to identify novel enzyme inhibitors r...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Cunningham F,McPhillie MJ,Johnson AP,Fishwick CW

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00