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Home / Archives for Parasitology Research

PCR detection of Ehrlichia ruminantium and Babesia bigemina in cattle from Kwara State, Nigeria: unexpected absence of infection

  • Autores: Hector E, Elelu N, Ferrolho J, Couto J, Sanches GS, Antunes S, Domingos A, Eisler MC
  • Ano de Publicação: 2019
  • Journal: Parasitology Research
  • Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30656410

Ticks and tick-borne diseases (TBDs) continue to pose an insidious and ever-present threat to livestock and livelihoods across the globe. Two of the most significant TBDs of cattle in Africa are heartwater and babesioisis, caused by Ehrlichia ruminantium and Babesia bigemina respectively. Both pathogens are endemic in Nigeria. However, to date, little data has been […]
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Prevalence and genotyping of Pneumocystis jirovecii in renal transplant recipients—preliminary report

  • Autores: Szydłowicz M, Jakuszko K, Szymczak A, Piesiak P, Kowal A, Kopacz Z, Wesolowska M, Lobo ML, Matos O, Hendrich AB, Kicia M
  • Ano de Publicação: 2019
  • Journal: Parasitology Research
  • Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30392033

Pneumocystis jirovecii is an opportunistic fungus occurring in human lungs. The group at highest risk consists of HIV-infected and non-HIV-infected immunosuppressed individuals. In these patients, P. jirovecii infection may lead to Pneumocystis pneumonia; it may, however, persist also in an asymptomatic form. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of P. jirovecii and potential risk […]
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Onchocerciasis caused by Onchocerca lupi: an emerging zoonotic infection. Systematic review

  • Autores: Grácio AJ, Grácio MA, Komnenou AT, Richter J
  • Ano de Publicação: 2015
  • Journal: Parasitology Research
  • Link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00436-015-4535-7

Globalization has increased circulation of people, their food, livestock and pets in the world, and changes in the environment, climate and human behaviour have led to the rapid expansion of emerging infections throughout the world. One of the reasons of a new pathogen affecting humans is the passage from an animal to a human being. […]
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Detection of Dirofilaria repens microfilariae in a dog from Portugal

  • Autores: Cardoso L, Lorentz S, Maia C, Naucke TJ, Otranto D
  • Ano de Publicação: 2016
  • Journal: Parasitology Research
  • Link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00436-015-4796-1

Dirofilaria repens causes subcutaneous infection in dogs and cats, and is the main agent of human dirofilariosis in Europe. Detection of D. repens is described in a dog from Portugal, a finding that simultaneously represents the first presumable case of autochthonous infection with the parasite in any animal host species in the country. A mixed D. repens/Dirofilaria […]
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Cercopithifilaria sp II in Vulpes vulpes: new host affiliation for an enigmatic canine filarioid

  • Autores: Annoscia G, Azevedo F, Casero M, Colella V, Latrofa MS, Maia C, Otranto D, Pereira A
  • Ano de Publicação: 2017
  • Journal: Parasitology Research
  • Link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00436-016-5308-7

Cercopithifilaria bainae and Cercopithifilaria grassii (Spirurida, Onchocercidae) are filarioids inhabiting the skin of dogs worldwide. The microfilariae of a third species namely, Cercopithifilaria sp. II sensu Otranto et al. 2013, have been morphologically and molecularly characterized but scientific knowledge of this parasite is minimal. The first case of infection of a red fox (Vulpes vulpes) with the filarioid Cercopithifilaria sp. II is […]
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