Worm burden
Validation of ultrasound bioimaging to predict worm burden and treatment efficacy in preclinical filariasis drug screening models
... parasite worm burden and the occurrence of infection failure in both gerbils and, to a lesser extent, immunodeficient mice, hampers the success of screening systems to delineate the true efficacy level of ...
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Refined stratified worm burden models that incorporate specific biological features of human and snail hosts provide better estimates of Schistosoma diagnosis, transmission, and control
... mean worm burden (MWB) formula- tions [4, 8–11] have had several shortcomings in this ...about worm load distributions and appear to have oversimplified some components of the transmission ...
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Vaccination of mice with a recombinant novel cathepsin B inhibits Trichinella spiralis development, reduces the fecundity and worm burden
... significant worm burden reduction in the intestines and muscles of vaccinated mice after oral challenge with ...intestinal worm growth and declined its ...
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Vaccination with recombinant paramyosin against the bovine lungworm Dictyocaulus viviparus considerably reduces worm burden and larvae shedding
... to control parasitic bronchitis. This assumption is substan- tiated by promising rPMY vaccination trials against trema- todes like Schistosoma spp. and Fasciola gigantica [14-16]. In these studies, performed in the ...
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A comparison of helminth infections as assessed through coprological analysis and adult worm burdens in a wild host
... by worm burden (Torres et ...helminth worm burdens across the badger population has not yet been ...adult worm burden has not been ...
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Impacts of breed type and vaccination on Teladorsagia circumcincta infection in native sheep in Gran Canaria
... both worm burden and FEC over time as well as in cumulative FEC ...and worm burden param- eters were reduced in vaccinated CS lambs, but the dif- ferences were not statistically significant, ...
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Modelling Neglected Tropical Diseases diagnostics: the sensitivity of skin snips for Onchocerca volvulus in near elimination and surveillance settings
... female worm burden per person, the aggregation in worm bur- den, the aggregation of microfilariae in skin snips, and the ratio of microfilarial density in the two different re- gions of the body from ...
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Schistosomiasis vaccines: where do we stand?
... with interleukin 18 (IL-18), a potent IFN-γ inducing factor, the protective efficacy was improved [66]. DNA vaccines have some advantages over other types of immunization but they have some limitations concer- ning the ...
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Density dependent effects on the weight of female Ascaris lumbricoides infections of humans and its impact on patterns of egg production
... The results presented in Table 9 suggest that a very small fraction of the zeros in the data were generated from the negative binomial count process. If we accept the explana- tion that the vast majority of zeros are ...
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Modeling the interruption of the transmission of soil transmitted helminths by repeated mass chemotherapy of school age children
... the worm burden of the host ...of worm acquisition and loss by the host ...host worm burden, but these contain simplifying assumptions which we will show lead to significant biased ...
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Screening a repurposing library, the Medicines for Malaria Venture Stasis Box, against Schistosoma mansoni
... values ranging from 30 to 55 μM 72 h post-drug ex- posure in the presence of this protein (Table 3). This finding suggests a strong drug-binding effect of albu- min. This finding is consistent with the incapacity of all ...
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The dynamic influence of the DRB1*1101 allele on the resistance of sheep to experimental Teladorsagia circumcincta infection
... control worm burden [48,49], accounting for about one-third of the variation of worm numbers in deliberate ...high worm bur- den in the abomasum of DRB1*1101 carrier ...
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Epidemiological and clinical correlates of malaria helminth co infections in southern Ethiopia
... between worm burden as expressed by egg intensity and malaria parasite density was observed which suggest that with the time course of the infection, such patients with high density of both helminths and ...
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Protein profile of lambs experimentally infected with Haemonchus contortus and supplemented with selenium and copper
... Results: Higher levels of total protein and gamma globulin were observed in the lambs treated with sodium selenite and copper on D80. Copper acted as a growth promoter. The copper-supplemented groups exhibited higher ...
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Transmission dynamics of Ascaris suum in organic pigs
... adult worm populations are able to counteract this mechanism (Masure et ...the worm burden in the growers suggests that other complex factors might have played role in the expulsion ...adult ...
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Modelling the population dynamics of Ascaris suum in pigs
... results o f the present study demonstrate that previous experience o f infection does not cause a reduction in the aggregation o f the worm burden distributions when pigs are trickle inoculated with either ...
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Vermiremediation of microelements and soluble salts in sewage sludge by earthworms
... included worm species (W0: no worm, W1: Eisenia foetida and W2: Eudrilus eugeniae) and for bulking materials (B0: sewage sludge, B1: sewage sludge + cow dung, B2: sewage sludge + sheep manure and B3: sewage ...
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Earthworms: Interactions with management; impacting plant growth?
... Aporrectodea caliginosa = Grey worm Field worm, found north to Finnmark 71°N Aporrectodea rosea = Rosy-tipped worm, found north to Tromsø 69° N Lumbricus rubellus = Red worm, found north[r] ...
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Worm gear mechanism with switchable backdrivability
... the worm gear are held by the rubber parts, and the shafts can vibrate in all direc- ...the worm screw and the worm wheel is not recommended, because it significantly dis- places the contact point ...
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DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF WATER MAINS KEY
... and worm gear drives are used for transmitting power between two non-intersecting and perpendicular axes ...The worm gear drive is used as compact arrangement of high for high reduction ...The worm ...
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