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Increasing prevalence of Diphyllobothrium cestodes in seals from the North and Baltic Sea over 26 years [PDF]

Frontiers in Veterinary Science
IntroductionHarbor seals (Phoca vitulina) and grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) are infected by trophically transmitted intestinal cestodes of the genus Diphyllobothrium.
Lotte Caecilia Striewe, Joy Ometere Boyi, Rémi Pigeault, Peter Wohlsein, Ursula Siebert, Kristina Lehnert   +5 more
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Lactate Dehydrogenase Gene Family in Spirometra mansoni (Cestoda: Diphyllobothriidea)—Phylogenetic Patterns and Molecular Characteristics

Animals, 2023
The plerocercoid of Spirometra mansoni can parasitize both human and animals, resulting in sparganosis. Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) is an important enzyme in parasites. However, our knowledge of the LDH family in S. mansoni is still inadequate. This work
Shasha Liu, Ke Zhou, Fei Gao, Wen Li, Zhongquan Wang, Xi Zhang   +5 more
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Specific Identification of a Taeniid Cestode from Snow Leopard, Uncia uncia Schreber, 1776 (Felidae) in Mongolia [PDF]

Mongolian Journal of Biological Sciences, 2003
An unknown taeniid cestode, resembling Taenia hydatigena, was recovered from a snow leopard, Uncia uncia in Mongolia. Morphology and nucleotide sequence of the mitochondrial cytochromec oxidase subunit 1 gene ...
Sumiya Ganzorig, Yuzaburo Oku, Munehiro Okamoto, Masao Kamiya   +3 more
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Comparative Genomic Analysis and Species Delimitation: A Case for Two Species in the Zoonotic Cestode Dipylidium caninum

Pathogens, 2023
Dipylidium caninum (Linnaeus, 1758) is a common zoonotic cestode of dogs and cats worldwide. Previous studies have demonstrated the existence of largely host-associated canine and feline genotypes based on infection studies, differences at the 28S rDNA ...
Jeba R. J. Jesudoss Chelladurai, Aloysius Abraham, Theresa A. Quintana, Deb Ritchie, Vicki Smith   +4 more
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Molecular Characterization of Ctenotaenia marmotae (Frölich, 1802) Railliet, 1893 (Cyclophyllidea: Anoplocephalidae) Parasitizing Rodents of the Genus Marmota and Spermophilus from Eurasia

Diversity, 2022
Cestodes Ctenotaenia marmotae are a widespread parasite of Eurasian ground squirrels. Being the only valid species of its genus, it has been recorded in ten host species from the genera Marmota and Spermophilus.
Anton Krivopalov, Sergey Abramov, Lyudmila Akimova, Alina Barkhatova, Anton Gromov, Sergey Konyaev, Natalia Lopatina, Anna Sidorovich, Egor Vlasov, Pavel Vlasenko, Vadim Zinchenko   +10 more
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Comparative comprehensive analysis on natural infections of Hymenolepis diminuta and Hymenolepis nana in commensal rodents

Helminthologia, 2021
This first comprehensive report from Punjab province of India relates to patho-physiological alterations alongwith morpho-molecular characterisation and risk assessment of natural infections of Hymenolepis diminuta and Hymenolepis nana in 291commensal ...
Brar S. K., Singla N., Singla L. D.
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Hyperparasitism by helminths: new records of cestodes and nematodes in proteocephalid cestodes from South American siluriform fishes Hiperparasitismo por helmintos: novas ocorrências de cestóides e nematóides em cestóides proteocefalídeos de peixes siluriformes da América do Sul

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1989
Proteocephalid cestode hyperparasite are reported from numerous proteocephalids occurring in pimelodid fishes in different regions of Brazil. In addition, three specimens of a nematode hyperparasite are reported from the proteocephalid cestode ...
Amilcar Arandas Rego, David I. Gibson
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Hymenolepis diminuta Infection in a Romanian Child from an Urban Area

Pathogens, 2022
Hymenolepis diminuta is primarily a rodent parasite that is ubiquitously distributed worldwide, but with only a few cases described as human infections.
Felicia Galoș, Mălina Anghel, Andreea Ioan, Mara-Ioana Ieșanu, Cătălin Boboc, Anca Andreea Boboc   +5 more
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Parasites of the green-backed firecrown (Sephanoides sephanoides) in Chile

Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2011
Gastrointestinal and external parasites from 12 Green-backed Firecrown (Sephanoides sephaniodes Molina 1782) were collected between January 2004 to December 2008 from the Biobío Region of south-central Chile and Santiago of central Chile.
Daniel Alfonso González-Acuña, Carolina Silva, Marta Soto, Sergei Mironov, Lucila Moreno, Paulina Gonzalez, Hasan Badrul, Mike Kinsella   +7 more
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Molecular characteristics of glutathione transferase gene family in a neglect medical Spirometra tapeworm

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022
The Spirometra mansoni is a neglect medical tapeworm, its plerocercoid larvae can parasitize in humans and animals, causing sparganosis. In this study, 17 new members of the glutathione transferase (GST) family were sequenced and characterized in S ...
Wen Qing Chen, Sha Sha Liu, Chi Cheng, Jing Cui, Zhong Quan Wang, Xi Zhang   +5 more
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