2025 March - 12 articles
Nematode cys-loop ligand-gated chloride channels are important targets for anthelmintic drugs as many subtypes are not present in mammals. We report the isolation and functional characterization of a novel member of the cys-loop ligand-gated chloride...
The resistance of small ruminants to synthetic anthelmintics and helminthosis poses considerable challenges to global livestock production. Integrating biological control with nematophagous fungi, particularly Duddingtonia flagrans, is crucial in add...
The nematode Spinitectus inermis (Zeder, 1800), a specific gastrointestinal parasite of Anguilla anguilla, has been recorded for the first time in the Italian Peninsula. The study was conducted in the Mesima River, located in the southwestern pa...
Leishmania is a protozoan parasite causing a spectrum of pathologies in humans grouped under the name leishmaniasis. Clinical outcomes range from the self-healing cutaneous form to the visceral one that is fatal in the absence of treatment. The leish...
This study investigates the parasitic biodiversity of the fish species Astyanax bimaculatus and Psalidodon fasciatus in a stream located in the Chapada do Araripe Environmental Protection Area (APA), state of Ceará, Brazil, contributing to the...
Rhipicephalus (Boophilis) microplus (also known as southern cattle tick or Asian blue tick) is one of the most detrimental and prolific tropical cattle parasites. Currently, chemical acaricides used against these ticks have been less effective due to...
Two related P-type ATPases, designated as ATPase1 and ATPase3, were identified in Plasmodium falciparum. These two ATPases exhibit very similar gene and protein structures and are most similar to P5B-ATPases. There are some differences in the predict...
Colpodella species are predatory biflagellates phylogenetically related to pathogenic Apicomplexans. Following the attachment of Colpodella sp. to its prey, cytoplasmic contents of the prey are aspirated into a posterior food vacuole during myzocytos...
Dioctophyme renale, also known as the giant red kidney worm, is a parasitic nematode that infects various mammalian hosts, including dogs, and is associated with an important renal pathology. This case report describes the first known D. renale paras...
The genus Ancistrohaptor was proposed to accommodate monopisthocotylans flatworms parasitic on the gills of species of the genus Triportheus in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil. Its main characteristics are (a) an accessory piece of the male copulatory...
This study revisits the taxonomy of Anthocotyle merluccii, originally described from the European hake Merluccius merluccius in the northeast Atlantic, addressing discrepancies in clamp morphology across populations. The original description from Bel...
Biting flies are hematophagous dipterans belonging to various taxonomic groups, such as the Hippoboscidae, Ceratopogonidae, Simuliidae, Tabanidae, Muscidae, and Psychodidae families, some of which have significant medical and veterinary importance. T...
