abstract：:The seasonal dynamics of Gyrodactylus rhodei, a monogenean ectoparasite of bitterling (Rhodeus sericeus), was studied from June 2000 to May 2001 in the Kyjovka River, Czech Republic. A negative relationship between prevalence and intensity of infection of G. rhodei and water temperature was found. Metrical variability...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Dávidová M,Jarkovský J,Matejusová I,Gelnar M

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comprehensive survey to document the presence of free-living amoebae of the genus Acanthamoeba was conducted in tap water and sea water sources related to human environments in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. Acanthamoeba identification was based on the morphology of cyst and trophozoite forms and PCR amplification...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Lorenzo-Morales J,Ortega-Rivas A,Foronda P,Martínez E,Valladares B

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii is an opportunistic protozoan parasite that differentiates into latent cysts (bradyzoite) that can be reactivated during immunosuppression. TgSRCAP (Toxoplasma gondii Snf2-related CBP activator protein) is a SWI2/SNF2 family chromatin remodeler whose expression increases during cyst development. Iden...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Nallani KC,Sullivan WJ Jr

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of a live Cryptobia salmositica (Kinetoplastida) vaccine on the humoral and cellular immune response, and changes in the peripheral leukocyte populations of Salmo salar were investigated. The vaccine produced detectable parasitemia in the blood which peaked at 5 weeks post-vaccination (w.p.v). Antibodies w...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Chin A,Woo PT

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this paper is to disseminate, more widely, certain historically important aspects of research by O. Wilford Olsen on hookworms (Uncinaria lucasi) in northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus) and Steller sea lions (Eumatopias jubatus) in 1951 on St. Paul Island, Alaska. Highly meaningful facets of the res...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Lyons ET

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The migration of Schistosoma japonicum and S. mansoni through mouse skin epidermis and dermis was compared by immunofluorescence techniques from 4 to 22 h after infection. At all times, the percentage of parasites detected in the dermis was significantly higher for S. japonicum than for S. mansoni. Thus, S. japonicum ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Wang L,Li YL,Fishelson Z,Kusel JR,Ruppel A

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationships between inflammation in organs with Toxocara canis larval migration and matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) were investigated following the infection of mice with 1,000 infective eggs. Gelatinase activity was defined by gelatin zymography, optimum pH, inhibitor specificity and Western blot analysis. M...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Lai SC,Chen KM,Chen HC,Lee HH

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents the ultrastructural characteristics of sporogenesis in the genus Myxobolus which infects four economically important Egyptian fishes: Oreochromis niloticus niloticus, Barbus bynni, Labeo niloticus and Hydrocynus forskalii, specimens of which were collected at Giza city. Although the cysts were obse...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Abdel-Ghaffar F,Abdel-Baki AA,Garhy ME

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A molecular approach was used to analyse a focus of cercarial dermatitis in northeastern France (Lake Der-Chantecoq), including both cercariae and snails,by sequencing the internal transcribed spacers (ITS1 for ocellate furcocercariae and ITS2 for snails). Lymnaea stagnalis were found infected with the furcocercariae ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Ferté H,Depaquit J,Carré S,Villena I,Léger N

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excretory/secretory (ES) products collected from exsheathed L3 or parasitic stages of Haemonchus contortus were tested in vitro for gastrin stimulatory properties using an ovine abomasal antral mucosal preparation. In addition, the motility of exsheathed L3 and parasites recovered on weeks 2, 6 and 8 post-infection wa...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Haag E,Lawton D,Simpson HV

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The parasite fauna of the stone loach (Barbatula barbatula) was investigated monthly from May to December 2001. Four parasite species were recorded: Gyrodactylus spp. (Monogenea), Tylodelphys clavata (Digenea), Proteocephalus sagittus (Cestoda), and Raphidascaris acus (Nematoda). The changes in the seasonal dynamics o...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Simková A,Jarkovský J,Koubková B,Barus V,Prokes M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From March to October 2003, a total of 2,518 host-seeking Ixodes ricinus ticks (1,944 nymphs, 264 females, 310 males) were collected by blanket dragging at 45 sites all over the city area of Bonn, western Germany, to be checked for Borrelia burgdorferi infection. The collection sites included 20 private gardens, nine ...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Maetzel D,Maier WA,Kampen H

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A LightCycler real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay was developed to detect Wuchereria bancrofti DNA in blood-fed mosquitoes. The assay is based on fluorescence melting curve analysis of the PCR product generated from a family of repeated DNA elements: the 182 bp SspI repeat, specific to the genus Wuchereria...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Lulitanond V,Intapan PM,Pipitgool V,Choochote W,Maleewong W

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phalloidin fluorescence technique, enzyme cytochemistry and immunocytochemistry in conjunction with confocal scanning laser microscopy have been used for the first time to describe the nervous and muscle systems of the viviparous monogenean gill parasite, Macrogyrodactylus clarii. The gross spatial arrangement of musc...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： El-Naggar MM,Arafa SZ,El-Abbassy SA,Stewart MT,Halton DW

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differential gene expression of mature and immature Bothriocephalus acheilognathi cestodes was analyzed using the suppression subtractive hybridization technique. Five mature-associated cDNAs were isolated and characterized. Virtual Northern blot and RT-PCR analyses confirmed that four of the five genes were upregulat...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Luo HL,Nie P,Chang MX,Song Y,Yao WJ

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied in vivo immune response to fleas in two gerbils, Gerbillus dasyurus and Gerbillus andersoni allenbyi, which differed in their natural species richness of flea assemblages and prevalence of infestation. G.dasyurus is parasitized naturally by several flea species, but the prevalence of infestation is low, whe...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Khokhlova IS,Spinu M,Krasnov BR,Degen AA

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichomoniasis is the interplay between the infecting parasite, Trichomonas vaginalis, and the host, on which the clinical presentation of the disease depends. Although the clinical spectrum varies from an asymptomatic state to mild, moderate or severe symptoms, the exact virulence markers of T. vaginalis have not bee...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Malla N,Valadkhani Z,Harjai K,Sharma S,Gupta I

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we have tested the effect of different polyamine inhibitors of the spermidine metabolizing enzymes deoxyhypusine synthase and homospermidine synthase in different chloroquine resistant Plasmodium falciparum strains, in the mosquito Anopheles stephensi (Diptera: Culicidae) and in a Trypanosoma eva...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Moritz E,Seidensticker S,Gottwald A,Maier W,Hoerauf A,Njuguna JT,Kaiser A

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Balamuthia mandrillaris is a free-living ameba and an opportunistic agent of lethal granulomatous amebic encephalitis (GAE) in humans and other mammals. Its supposed routes of infection have been largely assumed from what is known about Acanthamoeba spp. and Naegleria fowleri, other free-living amebae and opportunisti...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Kiderlen AF,Laube U

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental infections of Galba truncatula with Fasciola hepatica were carried out under laboratory conditions to determine why the use of Tetraphyll, when provided every 3 days as food for snails, stimulated the intensity of cercarial shedding. In snails raised on cos lettuce and Tetraphyll, the number of metacercar...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Belfaiza M,Abrous M,Rondelaud D,Moncef M,Dreyfuss G

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When in vitro cultivation was used as the 'gold standard' for the detection of Blastocystis hominis in stool specimens, simple smear and trichrome staining showed sensitivities of 16.7% and 40.2% and specificities of 94% and 80.4%, respectively. In vitro cultivation also enhanced PCR amplification for the detection of...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Termmathurapoj S,Leelayoova S,Aimpun P,Thathaisong U,Nimmanon T,Taamasri P,Mungthin M

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic enzymes and biochemical parameter values were analysed in the sera of 32 lambs: 12 infected with 1,000 Dicrocoelium dendriticum metacercariae, 12 with 3,000 and eight controls. Blood samples were collected at intervals of 30 days from day 0 post-infection (p.i.). Half the lambs in each group were slaughtered o...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Manga-González MY,Ferreras MC,Campo R,González-Lanza C,Pérez V,García-Marín JF

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gross anatomy of muscle and sensory/motor innervation of adult and intramolluscan developmental stages of Echinostoma caproni have been investigated to ascertain the organisation and the functional correlates of any stage-specific patterns of staining. Using indirect immunocytochemistry to demonstrate neuroactive subs...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Sebelová S,Stewart MT,Mousley A,Fried B,Marks NJ,Halton DW

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of trypsin, bile, trypsin-bile, pepsin, dithiothreitol (DTT) and metacercarial excretory-secretory product (ESP) on the in vitro excystment of Clonorchis sinensis metacercariae were investigated. The majority of metacercariae excysted immediately in trypsin-bile in PBS solution, a process which was complet...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Li S,Chung YB,Chung BS,Choi MH,Yu JR,Hong ST

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptosporidium is a significant pathogen in humans and animals. Cases of infection by C. meleagridis or C. baileyi with zoonotic potential have also been reported in domestic birds; and recent studies indicate the presence of new host-adapted species or genotype in birds. Therefore, accurately identifying isolates is...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Abe N,Iseki M

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The CSP, EMP2/MESA, MSP2, MSP3, MSP5, RAP1, RAP2, RESA1, SERA1 and SSP2/TRAP genes of Plasmodium falciparum are vaccine candidates. The hepatic phase of the infection is of major interest due to the protection induced by immunization with radiation-attenuated sporozoites. We therefore performed RT-PCR experiments to d...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Bodescot M,Silvie O,Siau A,Refour P,Pino P,Franetich JF,Hannoun L,Sauerwein R,Mazier D

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our aim was to study the migration of retinal pigmented epithelium (RPE) into the retinal layer during infection of C57BL/6 mice with Toxoplasma gondii. Eyes from infected and non-infected animals were analyzed on the 60th day of infection by light and transmission electron microscopy. Non-infected eyes showed a norma...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Tedesco RC,Smith RL,Corte-Real S,Calabrese KS

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the aim of proposing an alternative model to animal experimentation, we investigated cytokine production in response to antigens in an in vitro system. This is a co-culture system of healthy human leukocytes and enterocyte-like Caco-2 cells. The antigens tested, EgA31, EgTrp, and FABP1, are candidates for vaccine...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Fraize M,Sarciron ME,Saboulard D,Azzouz S,Debard AL,Bosquet G,Petavy AF

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recombinant surface protein of Theileria annulata (TaSP) was used in the standardization and validation of an enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the detection of circulating antibodies against tropical theileriosis. ELISA data were expressed as the percentage positivity (PP) of the reactivity of an inte...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Bakheit MA,Schnittger L,Salih DA,Boguslawski K,Beyer D,Fadl M,Ahmed JS

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase activity is present in mitochondrial lysates of Phytomonas serpens. Rotenone at 2-10 microM inhibited the activity 50-75%, indicating that it belongs to respiratory complex I. The activity was also inhibited 50-60% in the presence of 10-30 nM atovaquone suggesting that inhibition of comp...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： González-Halphen D,Maslov DA

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence and abundance of infections with haemoparasites were studied over a 4-year period in Microtus arvalis (common vole, n =321) sampled from fallow grassland sites in north-eastern Poland. Total species richness was five (prevalence= Haemobartonella sp. 63.9%, Bartonella spp. 27.7%, Babesia microti 9.0%, Tr...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Pawelczyk A,Bajer A,Behnke JM,Gilbert FS,Sinski E

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benzimidazole anthelmintics are widely used against nematode, cestode and trematode parasites. The drugs undergo several enzyme-mediated reactions within the host animal that produce a number of metabolites. Although it has been shown that certain helminths, including Fasciola hepatica, can metabolise albendazole, not...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Robinson MW,Lawson J,Trudgett A,Hoey EM,Fairweather I

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The catalysis of malate dehydrogenase (MDH) in Plasmodium falciparum (pfMDH) which involves NAD/NADH coupling is crucial for the parasite's pathogenicity. Primers were designed based on the P. falciparum genome resource, and these facilitated the cloning of a gene coding for pfMDH from a local clinical isolate. The DN...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Chan M,Sim TS

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:P-Glycoprotein (P-GP) is a transport protein that participates in the mechanism of active secretion of different molecules from the bloodstream to the gastrointestinal tract. The aim of the current work was to evaluate the effect of verapamil, a P-GP substrate, on the pharmacokinetic behaviour of the anthelmintics ive...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Molento MB,Lifschitz A,Sallovitz J,Lanusse C,Prichard R

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetratrichomonas didelphidis is a flagellate protozoan found in the intestine of the opossum. The parasite lives in a hostile and stressed environment, where it interacts with microorganisms and can survive under extreme conditions for growth, involving strict anaerobiosis or equilibration with air and abundance or ab...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Tasca T,De Carli GA

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2002, Skerratt et al. phylogenetically analysed sequence data for several haplotypes of the parasitic mite Sarcoptes scabiei from wombat, human and dog hosts in Australia, to test scenarios concerning the origin and diversification of the scabies infections in wombats. Here we note that their substantive conclusion...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Morrison DA,Ljunggren EL,Mattsson JG

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A monoclonal antibody TGCM5 (isotype G, subclass 1, kappa light chain) against SAG2, a major surface antigen of Toxoplasma gondii tachyzoites, was produced in quantity and its Fab-containing idiotype (Id) was injected into rabbits for production of rabbit anti-Id sera. The rabbit anti-Id IgG (aId-IgG) with a SAG2 inte...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Yang CD,Chang GN,Chao D

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental infections of Galba truncatula with Fasciola gigantica or F. hepatica were carried out under laboratory conditions (20 degrees C) to determine the characteristics of rediae of both species via their morphometry and to find reliable measurements that might be efficiently used to discriminate between the re...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Dar Y,Vignoles P,Dreyfuss G,Rondelaud D

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male Sprague-Dawley rats were dosed orally with nitroxynil at a concentration of 40 mg/kg and adult Fasciola hepatica recovered after 24 h, 48 h and 72 h. Surface changes to the flukes were monitored by means of SEM. After the 24 h treatment, extensive swelling and blebbing of the tegument was observed on both surface...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： McKinstry B,Fairweather I,Brennan GP,Forbes AB

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thelohania montirivulorum sp. nov., a new species of microsporidian parasite, was found in a highland population of the Australian yabby, Cherax destructor. Data are presented on fine ultrastructure, developmental morphology and DNA sequence of the small subunit ribosomal DNA (SSU rDNA) and internal transcribed spacer...

journal_title：Parasitology research

authors： Moodie EG,Le Jambre LF,Katz ME

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00