Focus on Nematodes: Microscopic Roundworms

Effect of Sulphapyridine on Roundworms in a Child with Pneumonia

ROUNDWORMS IN A CHILD WITH PNEUMONIA By H. L. MALA, l.c.p.s. (Bom.) Mission Hospital, Ratlam, C. I. A Bohra child, aged two years, was brought to the out-patients' department, Mission Hospital, Ratlam, with cough and fever, duration six days. General examination showed marked ansemia and rickety changes. Both lungs were affected with bronchopneumonia, and the abdomen was distended. Following tr...

Zoonotic Baylisascaris procyonis Roundworms in Raccoons, China

Risk factors for Lyme disease in a small rural community in northern California. Population structure of the Lyme bor-reliosis spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi in the Western black-legged tick (Ixodes pacificus) in northern California. clones of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto cause invasive infection in humans. distribution of the ospC gene, a transfer-able serotype determinant of Borrelia b...

Sodium Fluoride Effective for Removing Roundworms

Biopesticides from Entomopathogenic Nematodes

Karimipour Fard H. and Saeidi K. 2019. Biopesticides from entomopathogenic nematodes   Plant Pathology Science 8(1): 60-73. DOI: 10.2982/PPS.8.1.60.   In the recant decade, biopesticides with entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs) have been developed with using different methods and materials. But the production of such biopesticides has always accompanied by some limitations such as low quality o...

No Adaptation of Roundworms to Resistant Hosts

A genetically diverse population of Haemonchus contortus was serially passaged through Merino hosts bred for either increased or decreased resistance to the parasite. After 30 parasite generations, the resulting nematode sub-populations were compared with each other and with the foundation population, by infecting lines of the selected sheep and measuring the resulting faecal egg counts (FECs) ...