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Effect of Iron/Folic Acid Supplementation on the Outcome of Malaria Episodes Treated with Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Folic acid supplementation may potentially alter the efficacy of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) treatment in children with malaria. However, there is lack of evidence fromrandomized controlled trials and effects of folic acid supplementation on clinical ...
Black, Robert E.   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

Biodiversity and ecology of the parasitic infracommunities of Loricaria prolixa (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Tietê-Batalha Basin, SP, Brazil

open access: yesActa Scientiarum: Biological Sciences, 2018
   The parasitic biodiversity of the Loricaria prolixa, an endemic fish from the Paraná and Prata basins was studied and analyzed the parasitic’s communities dynamics and their ecological relations with this host.
Larissa Sbeghen Pelegrini   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Features of Engorgement of Ixodes ricinus Ticks Infesting the Northern White-Breasted Hedgehog in an Urban Park

open access: yesMicroorganisms, 2023
In this work we exploited the parallel dense tick and hedgehog populations of an urban park in Budapest, Hungary as a good host–parasite model to obtain detailed data about this physiological relationship.
László Egyed   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
wiley   +1 more source

Prediction and prevention of the next pandemic zoonosis. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Most pandemics--eg, HIV/AIDS, severe acute respiratory syndrome, pandemic influenza--originate in animals, are caused by viruses, and are driven to emerge by ecological, behavioural, or socioeconomic changes.
Carroll, Dennis   +8 more
core   +1 more source

The coelurosaur theropods of the Romualdo formation, early Cretaceous (Aptian) of Brazil: Santanaraptor placidus meets Mirischia asymmetrica

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The upper carbonate concretion levels of the Romualdo Formation (Aptian, Brazil) have yielded several theropod dinosaur remains, including spinosaurids and the coelurosaurs Santanaraptor placidus and Mirischia asymmetrica, the phylogenetic affinities of which are controversial.
Rafael Delcourt   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

First report of Lernaea cyprinacea (Crustacea: Lernaeidae) parasiting Rhamdia quelen (Pisces: Heptapteridae) in Santa Fe (Argentina) under hatchery conditions

open access: yesRevista Colombiana de Ciencias Pecuarias, 2018
Background: Lernaea cyprinacea was introduced in South America with cyprinids. To the best of our knowledge, this ectoparasite has not been reported in Santa Fe province (Argentina).
Silvia H. Gervasoni   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Biodiversity of Demodecid Mites (Acariformes: Prostigmata), Specific Parasites of Mammals with a Global Checklist and a New Finding for Demodex sciurinus

open access: yesDiversity, 2020
Demodecidae are the most specialized parasitic mites of mammals; they typically inhabit the skin, but they have been found in other tissues and organs.
Joanna N. Izdebska, Leszek Rolbiecki
doaj   +1 more source

Modeling and Validation of Environmental Suitability for Schistosomiasis Transmission Using Remote Sensing. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2015
BACKGROUND:Schistosomiasis is the most widespread water-based disease in sub-Saharan Africa. Transmission is governed by the spatial distribution of specific freshwater snails that act as intermediate hosts and human water contact patterns.
Yvonne Walz   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Malaria Diagnosis and the Plasmodium Life Cycle: the BFO Perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Definitive diagnosis of malaria requires the demonstration through laboratory tests of the presence within the patient of malaria parasites or their components.
Barry Smith, Werner Ceusters
core   +3 more sources

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