Anaphylaxis due to anisakidosis
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Parasitology Education Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Published in Trends in parasitology
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted parasitology curricula worldwide, which is expected to lead to the reshaping of parasitology education. Here, we share our experiences of remote teaching and learning of veterinary parasitology and discuss opportunities offered by remote teaching during COVID-19 lockdowns, enabling the development of interactive ...
The life-cycle of Toxoplasma gondii reviewed using animations
Published in Parasites & Vectors
Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan parasite that is the causative agent of toxoplasmosis, an infection with high prevalence worldwide. Most of the infected individuals are either asymptomatic or have mild symptoms, but T. gondii can cause severe neurologic damage and even death of the fetus when acquired during pregnancy. It is also a serious conditi...
Knowledge and perception on ticks and tick-borne diseases among veterinary medicine students from the North African coun...
Published in Parasite epidemiology and control
Ticks are important vectors of both animal and human pathogens. The epidemiology of tick-borne diseases (TBDs) has dramatically changed in several regions in the world. As parasitology is a continuously growing field, assessing the knowledge of veterinary medicine students provides useful indicators and information on the level of intervention requ...
Citronellal perception and transmission by Anopheles gambiae s.s. (Diptera: Culicidae) females
Published in Scientific Reports
Anopheles gambiae s.s. is a key vector of Plasmodium parasites. Repellents, which may be a promising alternative to pesticides used to control malaria mosquitoes. Although citronellal is a known mosquito repellent, its repellency characteristics are largely unknown. Determining the specific odorant-binding proteins (OBPs) and odorant receptors (ORs...
Engineering a vector-based pan-Leishmania vaccine for humans: proof of principle
Published in Scientific Reports
Leishmaniasis is a spectrum of diseases transmitted by sand fly vectors that deposit Leishmania spp. parasites in the host skin during blood feeding. Currently, available treatment options are limited, associated with high toxicity and emerging resistance. Even though a vaccine for human leishmaniasis is considered an achievable goal, to date we st...
Laurinterol from Laurencia johnstonii eliminates Naegleria fowleri triggering PCD by inhibition of ATPases
...Published in Scientific Reports
Primary amoebic encephalitis (PAM) is a lethal disease caused by the opportunistic pathogen, Naegleria fowleri. This amoebic species is able to live freely in warm aquatic habitats and to infect children and young adults when they perform risk activities in these water bodies such as swimming or splashing. Besides the need to increase awareness of ...
Analysis of Plasmodium vivax schizont transcriptomes from field isolates reveals heterogeneity of expression of genes in...
Published in Scientific Reports
Plasmodium vivax gene regulation remains difficult to study due to the lack of a robust in vitro culture method, low parasite densities in peripheral circulation and asynchronous parasite development. We adapted an RNA-seq protocol “DAFT-seq” to sequence the transcriptome of four P. vivax field isolates that were cultured for a short period ex vivo...
Evaluation of clinicopathological abnormalities in sick cats naturally infected by Leishmania infantum
Published in Heliyon
CAT, Clinicopathological abnormalities, Leishmania infantum , Phosphorus, Kidney disease, Parasite, Leishmania, Veterinary medicine, Infectious disease, Parasitology
Natural infection by Procyrnea uncinipenis (Nematoda, Habronematidae), a parasite from rheas, an autoctone bird from Sou...
Published in Scientific Reports
The present study reports a natural infection of emus, Dromaius novaehollandiae, by the nematode Procyrnea uncinipenis. Five adult emus from a scientific breeding farm at North Fluminense State University located in the city of Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil were necropsied, and their gastrointestinal tract were collected and e...
