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An interdisciplinary approach to improving conservation outcomes for parasites. [PDF]

Conserv Biol
Abstract Parasites represent a significant proportion of Earth's biodiversity and play important roles in the ecology and biology of ecosystems and hosts, making them an important target for conservation. Despite increasing calls to prioritize protection for parasites in the academic literature, they remain undervalued and underrepresented in global ...
Brown TM, Dunn AM, Quinnell RJ, Clarke E, Cunningham AA, Goodman SJ.   +5 more
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First Records of <i>Coquillettidia</i> (<i>Coquillettidia</i>) <i>richiardii</i> and <i>Culex</i> (<i>Culex</i>) <i>perexiguus/univittatus</i> (Diptera: Culicidae) Mosquitoes in Galicia (Northwest Spain). [PDF]

J Parasitol Res
Three females of Coquillettidia richiardii (Ficalbi, 1889) and one female of Culex perexiguus Theobald, 1903/Culex univitattus Theobald, 1901, were recorded for the first time in Galicia (Northwest Spain) during entomological surveillance carried out by the regional vector surveillance network (ReGaViVec) between 2018 and 2022.
Silva-Torres MI, Martínez-Barciela Y, Polina González A, Pereira Martínez JM, Pousa Ortega Á, Garrido González J, Sánchez-Andrade R, Arias-Vázquez MS.   +7 more
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Protozoan and Helminth Contamination in Ecuadorian Agricultural Products: Dominance of Blastocystis sp.

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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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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EVOLUCIÓN DE INTERACCIONES PARÃ�SITO - HOSPEDERO: COEVOLUCIÓN, SELECCIÓN SEXUAL Y OTRAS TEORÃ�AS PROPUESTAS THE EVOLUTION OF HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS: COEVOLUTION, SEXUAL SELECTION AND OTHER SUGGESTED THEORIES

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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Perfil electroforético 2D de las proteínas del intestino de Fasciola hepatica

Revista Científica, 2022
Siendo la fasciolosis una infección parasitaria importante en rumiantes de muchos países y dada la alta prevalencia en humanos y animales en Cajamarca, Perú, se planteó realizar el estudio sobre el perfil de las proteínas de intestino de Fasciola ...
Marco Cabrera-González, Diana Marlo-Javier, Carlos Quilcate-Pairazamán, Héctor V. Vásquez, Medali Cueva-Rodríguez   +4 more
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