Encephalitozoon cuniculi est un parasite microsporidien présent dans le monde entier et ayant pour hôte principal le lapin. Ce pathogène peut néanmoins infecter de nombreux autres mammifères dont l’Homme. Chez le lapin, une infection par ce parasite occasionne des expressions cliniques variées. Alors que certains sont asymptomatiques d’autres peuve...
La Puce du Chat, Ctenocephalides felis, est le parasite externe le plus fréquemment rencontré chez les chiens et les chats en France métropolitaine. Outre leurs nuisances physiques directes pour les animaux domestiques, ces insectes peuvent être les vecteurs de nombreuses maladies, en particulier des zoonoses. De nombreux produits antiparasitaires ...
Apicomplexan parasites cause diseases such as malaria and toxoplasmosis. The apicomplexan mitochondrion shows striking differences from common model organisms, including in fundamental processes such as mitochondrial translation. Despite evidence that mitochondrial translation is essential for parasites survival, it is largely understudied. Progres...
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The undergoing WHO Malaria elimination program is threatened by the emergenceand potential spread of the Plasmodium falciparum artemisinin resistant parasite.Recent reports have shown (a) SNPs in region of chromosome 13 to be understrong recent positive selection in Cambodia, (b) presence of P. falciparum parasiteresistant and sensitive subpopulati...
Published in Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
We report the first laboratory-confirmed case ofT. evansiin a previously healthy individual without APOL1 deficiency, potentially contracted via a wound while butchering raw beef, and successfully treated with suramin. A linked epidemiological investigation revealed widespread and previously unidentified burden ofT. evansiin local cattle, highlight...
A growing number of atypical human infections due to the livestock parasite Trypanosoma evansi, or to the rat parasite Trypanosoma lewisi, are reported in humans in Asia. In some cases, clinical evolutions request treatments, however, so far, there were very few attempts to control T. lewisi using trypanocidal drugs. In a study published elsewhere,...
Plant trypanosomes have never been at the forefront of plant pathology matters. Even today, they hold only a marginal place among plant pathogens. There are two main reasons for this isolation: (1) the diseases caused by trypanosomes are confined to northern Latin America and the southern Caribbean; and (2) they affect only a small number of cultiv...
Les genres Anisakis, Pseudoterranova, Hysterothylacium et Contracaecum, membres de la famille des Anisakidae, sont des nématodes dont les larves sont présentes chez de nombreuses espèces de poissons et céphalopodes. Ces larves peuvent induire des pathologies digestives et/ou allergiques chez l’Homme. En France, la consommation des produits de la pê...
