Plasmodium gallinaceum
Chickens treated with a nitric oxide inhibitor became more resistant to Plasmodium gallinaceum infection due to reduced anemia, thrombocytopenia and inflammation
... with Plasmodium gallinaceum infections [5-7]. Plasmodium gallinaceum (Apicomplexa: Haemospororida) infects chickens and was first described by Brumpt in 1935, constituting a versatile model ...
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Plasmodium gallinaceum ookinetes adhere specifically to the midgut epithelium of Aedes aegypti by interaction with a carbohydrate ligand
... Purified Plasmodium gallinaceum ookinetes bind to isolated mosquito midguts when parasites and midguts are combined in a tube and the parasites are allowed to settle on the midgut ...
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Transcriptome sequencing and analysis of Plasmodium gallinaceum reveals polymorphisms and selection on the apical membrane antigen 1
... the Plasmodium gallinaceum blood stages Total RNA was prepared directly from the frozen sam- ples of parasitized ...P. gallinaceum transcriptome using Trinity [51]. To identify P. gallinaceum ...
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De novo assembly and transcriptome analysis of Plasmodium gallinaceum identifies the Rh5 interacting protein (ripr), and reveals a lack of EBL and RH gene family diversification
... P. gallinaceum transcriptome has led to the identification of several orthologous genes of mammalian Plasmodium ...P. gallinaceum [9–13] suggest that knowledge gained from ...P. gallinaceum as ...
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Molecular identification of the chitinase genes in Plasmodium relictum
... Plasmodium gallinaceum has been the primary model for studies related with chitinase function in avian malaria ...genus Plasmodium show distinct differences in their distribution and prevalence ...is ...
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A tubular network associated with the brush border surface of the Aedes aegypti midgut: implications for pathogen transmission by mosquitoes
... midguts Plasmodium gallinaceum ookinete-midgut binding assays were performed as described by Zieler et ...Briefly, Plasmodium gallinaceum zygotes were purified from the blood of infected white ...
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Restriction fragment length polymorphism mapping of quantitative trait loci for malaria parasite susceptibility in the mosquito Aedes aegypti.
... Susceptibility of the mosquito Aedes aegypti to the malarial parasite Plasmodium gallinaceum was investi- gated as a quantitative trait using restriction fragment length poly[r] ...
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Differential activity of methylene blue against erythrocytic and hepatic stages of Plasmodium
... Murine Plasmodium species are commonly used to study the liver stage of infection in mice and in vitro, yet it is not clear how well these models reflect ...on Plasmodium liver stage infection in ...
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Giemsa stained thick blood films as a source of DNA for Plasmodium species specific real time PCR
... One of the advantages of the Plasmodium real-time PCR on whole blood is its high analytical sensitivity [16]. Applied on TBF however, the PCR showed an ana- lytical sensitivity which was 10 times lower. This might ...
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Ten year trend analysis of malaria prevalence in Kola Diba, North Gondar, Northwest Ethiopia
... Malaria is a protozoan disease caused by parasites of the genus Plasmodium . It is one of the leading causes of ill- ness and death in the world. It is the leading cause of death in children under the age of 5 ...
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Malaria like symptoms associated with a natural Plasmodium reichenowi infection in a chimpanzee
... months. Plasmodium-acquired immunity is be- lieved not to last for a long period of time [14], thus Wonga may be considered naïve regarding Plasmodium ...for Plasmodium, are definitively not naïve ...
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Malaria parasites and related haemosporidians cause mortality in cranes: a study on the parasites diversity, prevalence and distribution in Beijing Zoo
... The 8-year observations in Beijing Zoo show that juve- nile cranes are markedly susceptible to Plasmodium and Leucocytozoon infections, which are gained from non- parent wild birds living in the zoo. Mortality is ...
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Prospective evaluation of artemether lumefantrine for the treatment of non falciparum and mixed species malaria in Gabon
... [11-13]. Plasmodium falciparum isolates are highly resistant to chloroquine and sensitivity to antifolate anti-malarials has decreased [14-16], hence ACT has become the first-line treatment of malaria ...
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Prevalence of drug resistance associated mutations in Plasmodium vivax against sulphadoxine pyrimethamine in southern Pakistan
... Molecular and epidemiological studies conducted in various malaria-endemic regions have shown that thera- peutic targets of SP in both P. falciparum and P. vivax are dihydrofolate reductase ( dhfr ) and dihydroptereoate ...
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Malaria in Mauritania: retrospective and prospective overview
... Studies on the genetic structure of Plasmodium spp. populations in Mauritania are very limited. Jordan et al. [17] genotyped 173 P. falciparum isolates, collected in Aioun and Kobeni in 1998 as part of the ...
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Submicroscopic Plasmodium prevalence in relation to malaria incidence in 20 villages in western Cambodia
... A detailed description, evaluation and validation of the high-volume ultrasensitive (uPCR) methodology has been reported previously [15]. In brief, batches of 500 µl of pRBCs were thawed and the DNA template, for detec- ...
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Assessment of drug resistance associated genetic diversity in Mauritanian isolates of Plasmodium vivax reveals limited polymorphism
... In Mauritania, the treatment of uncomplicated malaria had been based on chloroquine and sulfadoxine– pyrimethamine (SP) as the first- and second-line drugs until 2006, respectively. Following the emergence and spread of ...
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The ears of the African elephant: unexpected high seroprevalence of Plasmodium ovale and Plasmodium malariae in healthy populations in Western Africa
... The assay was first evaluated on 144 plasma samples from malaria patients diagnosed using microscopy and con- firmed by PCR. The RecELISA performed better than the NatELISA, which used a P. falciparum native antigen ...
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Usefulness of Seminested Multiplex PCR in Surveillance of Imported Malaria in Spain
... The most prevalent Plasmodium species in the samples, con- sidering the SnM-PCR results, was P. falciparum (68%), which was present in 59 samples as a single infection and in nine other cases as a mixed infection. ...
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Large scale malaria survey in Cambodia: Novel insights on species distribution and risk factors
... side village' ('farmer', 'military'), and 'other' ('fisher', 'ven- dor', 'NGO agent', 'unknown'). The axillary temperature was measured and splenomegaly was determined using the Hackett classification (grade 1–5). For ...
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