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ParasitologyThe genus Kalicephalus Molin, 1861 comprises hookworms parasitizing the gastrointestinal tract of reptiles, particularly snakes, and currently includes 34 recognized species worldwide.
Vachirapong Charoennitiwat +4 more
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Diversity, 2021 Land and freshwater molluscs are the most abundant non-arthropod invertebrates from inland habitats worldwide, playing important ecological roles and some being important pests in agriculture.
Omar Sánchez +2 more
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Adaptive Immunity in Marsupials
Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology, EarlyView.Comparison of the marsupial and eutherian adaptive immune systems. ABSTRACT Marsupials diverged from eutherian mammals 125–160 million years ago. Although evolutionarily distinct, both groups of mammals can produce complex adaptive immune responses to antigens with several key differences.
Cassandra L. Jol +2 more
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PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2023 Background Globally, helminth infections and cardiometabolic diseases often overlap in populations and individuals. Neither the causal relationship between helminth infections and cardiometabolic diseases nor the effect of helminth eradication on ...
Khanh Pham +10 more
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Guidelines for the purification and characterization of extracellular vesicles of parasites
Journal of Extracellular Biology, 2023 Parasites are responsible for the most neglected tropical diseases, affecting over a billion people worldwide (WHO, 2015) and accounting for billions of cases a year and responsible for several millions of deaths. Research on extracellular vesicles (EVs)
Carmen Fernandez‐Becerra +30 more
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mBio, 2021 High-throughput 16S rRNA sequencing has allowed the characterization of helminth-uninfected (HU) and helminth-infected (HI) gut microbiomes, revealing distinct profiles.
Jonah Kupritz +3 more
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JSFA reports, EarlyView.Abstract Gymnema sylvestre (Retz.) R.Br. ex‐Schult., commonly known as “gurmar” or “sugar destroyer,” belongs to the Apocynaceae family and is traditionally used in Ayurveda for diabetes management. This review synthesizes ethnomedicinal evidence with contemporary pharmacological studies, to evaluate the therapeutic properties and mechanistic actions ...
Faiza Saeed +5 more
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Soil-transmitted helminth reinfection after drug treatment : a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
, 2012 BACKGROUND: Soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections (i.e., Ascaris lumbricoides, hookworm, and Trichuris trichiura) affect more than a billion people. Preventive chemotherapy (i.e., repeated administration of anthelmintic drugs to at-risk populations),
Charles H. King (78462) +19 more
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Autonomous Non Antioxidant Roles for Fasciola hepatica Secreted Thioredoxin-1 and Peroxiredoxin-1
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2021 Trematode parasites of the genus Fasciola are the cause of liver fluke disease (fasciolosis) in humans and their livestock. Infection of the host involves invasion through the intestinal wall followed by migration in the liver that results in extensive ...
Amber Dorey +11 more
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Oikos, EarlyView.Elucidating the determinants of parasite infection levels of individuals within a population is a basic but important step for understanding the roles of parasites in natural systems. Among intraspecific studies on vertebrate hosts and metazoan parasites, host body size (length/mass) is probably the most frequently reported factor determining parasite ...
Ryota Hasegawa +7 more
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