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Monophyly of clade III nematodes is not supported by phylogenetic analysis of complete mitochondrial genome sequences

BMC Genomics, 2011
Background The orders Ascaridida, Oxyurida, and Spirurida represent major components of zooparasitic nematode diversity, including many species of veterinary and medical importance.
Min Gi-Sik, Kim Hyong, Kang Seokha, Lee Sang-Hwa, Sultana Tahera, Park Joong-Ki, Eom Keeseon S, Nadler Steven A   +7 more
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Feline thelaziosis caused by Thelazia callipaeda in Portugal [PDF]

, 2013
Thelazia callipaeda (Spirurida, Thelaziidae) is a nematode that lives in the conjunctival sac of domestic and wild carnivores, rabbits and humans causing mild to severe symptoms (e.g., conjunctivitis, lacrimation, epiphora, blepharospasm, keratitis and ...
Anastácio, Sofia, Carvalho, Luís Madeira de, Marquês, Inês, Mascarenhas, Salvador, Matias, Maria Goreti, Otranto, Domenico, Soares, Carla, Sousa, Sérgio Ramalho, Vieira, Maria João   +8 more
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Chronic polyarthritis associated to Cercopithifilaria bainae infection in a dog. [PDF]

, 2014
Despite the widespread distribution of Cercopithifilaria bainae among canine and tick populations worldwide, this filarioid is currently considered of 'minor importance' in veterinary medicine, particularly when compared to related filarioids, such as ...
Brianti, Emanuele, Bufalini, Massimiliano, Cancrini, Gabriella, Cantacessi, Cinzia, Dantas-Torres, Filipe, Fraulo, Maurizio, Gabrielli, Simona, Giannelli, Alessio, La Torre, Francesco, Latrofa, Maria Stefania, Otranto, Domenico, Ramos, Rafael AN   +11 more
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Guinea Worm Disease: A Neglected Diseases on the Verge of Eradication

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2022
Background: Dracunculiasis, also known as Guinea worm disease (GWD), is a neglected tropical disease (NTD) caused by a parasite (Dracunculus medinensis).
Carmen Pellegrino, Giulia Patti, Michele Camporeale, Alessandra Belati, Roberta Novara, Roberta Papagni, Luisa Frallonardo, Lucia Diella, Giacomo Guido, Elda De Vita, Valentina Totaro, Francesco Vladimiro Segala, Nicola Veronese, Sergio Cotugno, Davide Fiore Bavaro, Giovanni Putoto, Nazario Bevilacqua, Chiara Castellani, Emanuele Nicastri, Annalisa Saracino, Francesco Di Gennaro   +20 more
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Primeiro estudo parasitológico em rã com garras Africano (Xenopus laevis, Anfibia) no Chile [PDF]

, 2017
Introduced species can arrive into new territories with parasites; however, these species are expected to face lower parasite richness than in their original regions. Both introduced hosts and parasites can affect native fauna.
Castillo, Cristóbal, Gonzalez, Cynthya Elizabeth, González Acuña, Daniel, Landaeta-Aqueveque, Carlos, Lobos, Gabriel, Moreno, Lucila   +5 more
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Filarids (Spirurida: Onchocercidae) in wild carnivores and domestic dogs from the Brazilian Atlantic forest.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2022
Onchocercidae nematodes are heteroxenous parasites with worldwide distribution, and some of the species associated to animals may present zoonotic potential.
Marcela Figuerêdo Duarte Moraes, Andressa de Souza Pollo, Estevam Guilherme Lux Hoppe   +2 more
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Molecular and Morphological Data Confirmed First Record of Abbreviata kazakhstanica Markov and Paraskiv, 1956 (Spirurida: Physalopteridea) in Iran

Iranian Journal of Parasitology, 2021
Background: The genus Abbreviata (Spirurida: Physalopteridea) currently contains 47 species. Physalopteridae nematodes infect a large number of vertebrates, including mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians.
Morteza Ghanbari Johkool, Aida Vafae Eslahi, Milad Badri, Elham Hooshmand, Majid Pirestani, Daniel Jablonski, Rasool Jafari, Abdolhossein Dalimi   +7 more
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Morphology of Streptocara crassicauda and S. recta, with a Review of the Genus Streptocara (Nematoda: Acuariidae) and an Identification Key to Its Species

Diversity, 2023
The cosmopolitan genus Streptocara Railliet, Henry and Sisoff, 1912 (Nematoda: Acuariidae) comprises parasites of the upper alimentary tract of aquatic and, rarely, terrestrial birds.
Yasen Mutafchiev, Boyko B. Georgiev
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Ovarian Filariasis in a Wild Southern Tamandua (Tamanduatetradactyla; Mammalia: Myrmecophagidae)

Pathogens, 2022
Knowledge of reproductive health in wild southern tamanduas (Tamandua tetradactyla; Mammalia: Myrmecophagidae) is fragmentary. During necropsies of roadkill xenarthran species in Brazil, a case of ovarian filariasis in an adult female southern tamandua ...
Lilja Fromme, Débora Regina Yogui, Mario Henrique Alves, Josué Díaz-Delgado, Arnaud Leonard Jean Desbiez, André Luis Quagliatto Santos, Juliana Mariotti Guerra, Marion Langeheine, Ursula Siebert, Ralph Brehm, José Luiz Catão-Dias, Pedro Enrique Navas-Suárez   +11 more
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Molecular characteristics of Camallanus spp. (Spirurida : Camallanidae) in fishes from China based on its rDNA sequences [PDF]

, 2008
In the,paper, we explored the intra- and interspecific evolutionary variation among species of Camallanus collected from different fish species in various regions of China.
Gao, Dian, Nie, Pin, Wang, Gui Tang, Wu, SG, Chinese Acad Sci, State Key Lab Freshwater Ecol & Biotechnol, Wuhan 430072, Hubei Province, Peoples R China, Wu, Shan Gong, Xi, Bing Wen   +5 more
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