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Chromatin accessibility and gene expression in the parasite Trichomonas vaginalis [PDF]

BMC Infectious Diseases
Trichomonas vaginalis, the most common non-viral sexually transmitted parasite, causes more than 270 million infections annually. The infection’s outcome varies greatly depending on different factors that include variations in human immune responses, the
Agustina Prat, Daniela Muñoz, Ayelen Lizarraga, Julieta Seifert-Gorzycki, Estefania Sanchez-Vazquez, Patricia J. Johnson, Pablo H. Strobl-Mazzulla, Natalia de Miguel   +7 more
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Protozoan and Helminth Contamination in Ecuadorian Agricultural Products: Dominance of Blastocystis sp. [PDF]

Journal of Parasitology Research
Foodborne diseases, particularly those caused by parasitic infections, pose significant public health challenges globally, particularly affecting vulnerable populations such as children.
Luisa Carolina González-Ramírez, Cristian Andrés Quito López, Verónica Carolin Rojano Silva, Ximena del Rocío Robalino Flores, Silvia Paola Monar Basantes, José G. Prato, César Díaz-Godínez, Julio César Carrero   +7 more
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Consumption of Galactose by Trypanosoma cruzi Epimastigotes Generates Resistance against Oxidative Stress

Pathogens, 2022
In this study, we demonstrate that Trypanosoma cruzi epimastigotes previously grown in LIT medium supplemented with 20 mM galactose and exposed to sub-lethal concentrations of hydrogen peroxide (100 μM) showed two-fold and five-fold viability when ...
Ángel Lobo-Rojas, Ender Quintero-Troconis, Rocío Rondón-Mercado, Mary Carmen Pérez-Aguilar., Juan Luis Concepción, Ana Judith Cáceres   +5 more
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Prolonged survival of venereal Tritrichomonas foetus parasite in the gastrointestinal tract, bovine fecal extract, and water

Microbiology Spectrum, 2023
Bovine tritrichomonosis is a venereal disease that causes economic losses around the world. Over the last 100 years, the life cycle of the protozoan Tritrichomonas foetus in bovines has only considered venereal transmission, almost exclusively through ...
Cristian I. Martínez, Lucrecia S. Iriarte, Nehuen Salas, Andrés M. Alonso, Cesar I. Pruzzo, Tuanne dos Santos Melo, Antonio Pereira-Neves, Natalia de Miguel, Veronica M. Coceres   +8 more
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Dynamics of transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi in a rural area of Argentina: III. Persistence of T. cruzi parasitemia among canine reservoirs in a two-year follow-up

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 1986
A new cross-sectional survey of household- associated mongrel dogs as well as follow-up of previously parasitemic individuals was carried out in 1984 toy means of xenodiagnosis and serologic techniques to get a deeper insight into the relationship of T ...
Ricardo E. Gurtler, Nora D. Solard, Marta A. Lauricela, Ana S. Haedo, Silvia M. Pietrokovski, Andrea A. Alberti, Cristina Wisnivesky-Colli   +6 more
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Checklist and state of knowledge of helminths in wild birds from Chile: an update

Austral Journal of Veterinary Sciences, 2021
Helminths are an important component of biodiversity with over 24,000 species parasitising wild birds globally, with this figure on the rise given the growing interest in wildlife parasitology.
Pablo Oyarzún-Ruiz, Daniel González-Acuña   +1 more
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Larvas de nematoides encontradas em anfíbios no nordeste da Argentin [PDF]

, 2010
Five species of amphibians, Leptodactylus podicipinus, Scinax acuminatus, S. nasicus, Rhinella fernandezae and Pseudis paradoxa, were collected in Corrientes province, Argentina and searched for larval nematodes.
Gonzalez, Cynthya Elizabeth, Hamann, Mónika Inés   +1 more
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Delineating transitions during the evolution of specialised peroxisomes: Glycosome formation in kinetoplastid and diplonemid protists

Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2022
One peculiarity of protists belonging to classes Kinetoplastea and Diplonemea within the phylum Euglenozoa is compartmentalisation of most glycolytic enzymes within peroxisomes that are hence called glycosomes.
Diego Andrade-Alviárez, Alejandro D. Bonive-Boscan, Ana J. Cáceres, Wilfredo Quiñones, Melisa Gualdrón-López, Michael L. Ginger, Paul A. M. Michels   +6 more
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Clasificación de parásitos en imágenes de copro con transferencia de aprendizaje y aumento de datos

ReCIBE, 2022
Los seres humanos pueden albergar parásitos, por lo tanto, es fundamental una detección temprana para prevenir enfermedades. Los parásitos pueden observarse a través de imágenes microscópicas, con lo cual, la visión por computadora se muestra como un ...
Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez Velázquez, Mario Ignacio Chacon Murguia, Juan Alberto Ramirez Quintana, Carlos Arzate Quintana, Alma Delia Corral Saenz   +4 more
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Evolución de interacciones parásito - hospedero: coevolución, selección sexual y otras teorías propuestas

Revista U.D.C.A Actualidad & Divulgación Científica, 2011
Esta revisión resume los modelos teóricos de interacciones parásito-hospedero que se encuentran disponibles en la literatura científica. Se revisaron publicaciones internacionales en revistas especializadas sobre parasitología y ecología. Estudios teóricos y prácticos de las interacciones parásitohospedero, en algunos casos, sugieren variaciones ...
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