protozoan Parasites
Evolution of apoptosis like programmed cell death in unicellular protozoan parasites
... We used bioinformatics to ask whether elements of apoptosis machinery appear to be shared between mito- chondrial and amitochondrial protozoan parasites, focuss- ing on AIF, EndoG and cytochrome c using ...
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RNA Interference in Protozoan Parasites: Achievements and Challenges
... by protozoan parasites, such as Plasmodium, Leishmania, and the African and South American trypanosomes, are of great public health interest, as they cause a high incidence of mor- bidity and mortality and ...
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Molecular detection and genotyping of pathogenic protozoan parasites in raw and treated water samples from southwest Colombia
... the protozoan parasites most commonly associated with transmission by ...Similarly, protozoan parasites such as Entamoeba histolytica, Toxoplasma gondii and Cyclo- spora cayetanensis, ...
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DETECTION AND DIFFERENTIATION OF HUMAN PROTOZOAN PARASITES IN STOOL SPECIMENS BY USING MULTIPLEX ALLELE SPECIFIC POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION (MAS-PCR) In New Damietta City, Egypt
... pathogenic protozoan parasites in New Damietta city of North Delta region, ...protozoa parasites and thus, molecular methods must be considered the diagnostic methods of choice for enteric ...
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Molecular and phylogenetic characterization of honey bee viruses, Nosema microsporidia, protozoan parasites, and parasitic mites in China
... Two protozoan parasites, Crithidia mellificae and Apicystis bombi, were also shown to infect honey bees (Langridge and McGhee 1967; Lipa and Triggiani 1996; Schmid-Hem- pel and Tognazzo 2010; Plischuk et ...
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The meaning of death : evolution and ecology of apoptosis in protozoan parasites
... of protozoan parasites offers novel therapeutic tools to treat some of the most serious infectious diseases of humans, companion animals, wildlife, and ...unicellular parasites appears counter- ...
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Apoptotic markers in protozoan parasites
... dying parasites and not from healthy controls, which effectively indicates that one or several nucleases become active during the cell death ...the parasites without extracellular chromatin incubation shows ...
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Two distinct populations of Bovine IL 17+ T cells can be induced and WC1+IL 17+γδ T cells are effective killers of protozoan parasites
... isolated parasites at a multiplicity of infection (MOI) of ...of parasites, the media was changed to remove extracellular parasites from the culture and cells were incubated for a further 72 hrs ...
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Cytokine and chemokine responses to helminth and protozoan parasites and to fungus and mite allergens in neonates, children, adults, and the elderly
... A specific, balanced and, to an extent, protective immunity develops over time in response to repeated parasite encounter, with immune responses initially being poorly adapted and non-protective [8,9]. Such incapability ...
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Intracellular protozoan parasites of humans: the role of molecular chaperones in development and pathogenesis
... Expression of Toxoplasma gondii -specific heat shock protein 70 during in vivo. 1326[r] ...
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Molecular and descriptive epidemiology of intestinal protozoan parasites of children and their pets in Cauca, Colombia: a cross sectional study
... In Colombia, several studies of intestinal parasites have included the sociodemographic variables listed here (Table 1). These studies have reported a heterogeneous distribution of associations. A study conducted ...
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Rapid, Selection Free, High Efficiency Genome Editing in Protozoan Parasites Using CRISPR Cas9 Ribonucleoproteins
... Cas9-RNP size impacts knockout efficiency. We had previously reported that electroporation of SpCas9 protein plus sgRNA into T. cruzi failed to achieve gene knockout (5), and we confirmed this result using increasing RNP ...
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Genomes and Genome Projects of Protozoan Parasites
... One of the driving forces for this, as for any other, genome project is the prospect that the analysis of the genetic information will identify new drug targets. Experience from Leishmania, however, demonstrates that ...
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Taxonomic and biological studies of protozoan parasites in Tasmanian marine fishes
... CHAPTER 6 BIOLOGY OF PARATRICHODINA TASMANIENSIS, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE HOST FISHES, ATHERINOSOMA MICROSTOMA AND LEPTATHERINA PRESBYTEROIDES 6.1 Introduction 157 6.2 Material [r] ...
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Presence of zoonotic agents in engorged ticks and hedgehog faeces from Erinaceus europaeus in (sub) urban areas
... We detected Cryptosporidium species in 9% (8/90) of hedgehog faecal samples as well. Cryptosporidium is another genus of protozoan parasites of vertebrates, which causes enteric infections in humans. In ...
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Malaria endemicity and co-infection with tissue-dwelling parasites in Sub-Saharan Africa: a review
... extracellular protozoan parasites cause debilitat- ing human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) and nagana in livestock ...between protozoan and helminth infec- ...Both parasites potentially cross ...
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New Opportunities in the Structure-based Design of Anti-Protozoan Agents.
... is the creation of the ‘ Malaria Box ’ and the ‘ Pathogens Box ’ from Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV). Each is a collection of 400 drug-like compounds with either potent antimalarial activity, selected from the ...
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Sugar activation and glycosylation in Plasmodium
... Glycoconjugates are important mediators of host-pathogen interactions and are usually very abundant in the surface of many protozoan parasites. However, in the particular case of Plasmodium species, ...
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Real Time PCR for Detection and Differentiation of Entamoeba histolytica and Entamoeba dispar in Fecal Samples
... A closed-tube, real-time PCR assay was developed for sensitive and specific detection and differentiation of the two closely related intestinal protozoan parasites Entamoeba histolytica and Entamoeba dispar ...
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Identification and characterization of the antiplasmodial activity of Hsp90 inhibitors
... The heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) is an essential molec- ular chaperone in eukaryotes that has been suggested as a potential drug target against protozoan parasites [6]. The chaperone is a homodimer ...
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