Zago, Aline Cristina Franceschini, Lidiane Müller, Maria Isabel Silva, Reinaldo José da
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The present study describes Cacatuocotyle papilionis n. sp. (Monogenea, Dactylogyridae) from the skin of the characid fishes Astyanax lacustris (Lütken, 1875) (=Astyanax altiparanae Garutti & Britski, 2000) and Astyanax fasciatus (Cuvier, 1819) (Characiformes, Characidae) from the Southeast of Brazil, supported by morphological and molecular data. ...
Zhang, Xuliang Xu, Lixin Song, Xiaokai Li, Xiangrui Yan, Ruofeng
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Trichinella spiralis, the main pathogen of trichinosis, infects a wide range of mammalian hosts and is one of the most widespread parasites worldwide. For parasites, glycolysis is the most important way to generate energy. Previous studies showed that some enzymes involved in the glycolytic pathway play roles in regulation the host immunity. In thi...
Li, Kun Shahzad, Muhammad Zhang, Hui Mehmood, Khalid Jiang, Xiong Luo, Houqiang Zhang, Lihong Dong, Xiaoqian Li, Jiakui
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The present study was designed to determine and analyze the mt genomes of Metastrongylus salmi (M. salmi), and reveal the phylogenetic relationships of this parasite using mt DNA sequences. Results showed that the complete mt genome of M. salmi was 13722 bp containing 12 protein-coding genes (cox1-3, nad1-6, nad4L, atp6 and cytb), 22 transfer RNA g...
Zahedi, Alireza Lee, Gary K.C. Greay, Telleasha L. Walsh, Audra L. Blignaut, David J.C. Ryan, Una M.
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Cryptosporidium is an important enteric parasite that can contribute large numbers of infectious oocysts to drinking water catchments. As a result of its resistance to disinfectants including chlorine, it has been responsible for numerous waterborne outbreaks of gastroenteritis. Wildlife and livestock play an important role in the transmission of C...
Umemiya-Shirafuji, Rika Hatta, Takeshi Okubo, Kazuhiro Sato, Moeko Maeda, Hiroki Kume, Aiko Yokoyama, Naoaki Igarashi, Ikuo Tsuji, Naotoshi Fujisaki, Kozo
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Gómez, Samuel Aguirre-Villaseñor, Hugo Morales-Serna, Francisco Neptali
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A total of 228 sampling stations were visited for benthic fauna during a series of oceanographic cruises in the Gulf of California, west coast of the Baja California Peninsula, and Eastern Central Pacific from year 1991 to 2014. Among others, three fish species of the genus Dibranchus were caught in 28 stations. Of these, D. spongiosa was the most ...
Fabres, Laura Fuhrich Maschio, Vinicius José Santos, Denise Leal dos Kwitko, Sergio Marinho, Diane Ruschel Araújo, Bruno Schneider de Locatelli, Claudete Inês Rott, Marilise Brittes
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Several strains of free-living amoebae belonging to the genus Acanthamoeba can cause a painful sight-threatening disease of the cornea known as Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK). The numbers of AK cases keep rising worldwide mainly due to an increase in contact lens wearers and lack of hygiene in the maintenance of contact lenses and their cases. We repo...
Villalobos-Gómez, Fabiola del Rocío García-Lorenzana, Mario Escobedo, Galileo Talamás-Rohana, Patricia Salinas-Gutiérrez, Rogelio Hernández-Ramírez, Verónica-Ivonne Sánchez-Alemán, Esperanza Campos-Esparza, María del Rosario Muñoz-Ortega, Martín Humberto Ventura-Juárez, Javier
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The neuroimmunoregulation of inflammation has been well characterized. Entamoeba histolytica provokes an inflammatory response in the host in which macrophages and neutrophils are the first line of defense. The aim of this study was to analyze the effect of the 220 kDa lectin of Entamoeba histolytica on stimulation of human macrophages and neutroph...
Barbosa, Alynne da Silva Barbosa, Helene Santos Souza, Sandra Maria de Oliveira Dib, Laís Verdan Uchôa, Claudia Maria Antunes Bastos, Otilio Machado Pereira Amendoeira, Maria Regina Reis
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Balantioides coli is a ciliated protozoon that inhabits the intestine of pigs, non-human primates and humans. Light microscopy studies have described over 50 species of the genus Balantioides but their validity is in doubt. Due to the limited information about this genus, this study is aimed to identify morphological characteristics of Balantioides...
Hou, Zhaofeng Zhou, Yonghua Liu, Dandan Su, Shijie Zhao, Zhenxing Xu, Jinjun Tao, Jianping
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Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular parasite with worldwide distribution. Virulence of T. gondii is a multigenic trait. Genetic and virulence data for T. gondii isolates from humans and animals in China have been reported. However, almost all biological materials used for genotyping of T. gondii from humans and pigs were DNA samples prep...
