One trematode, Echinostoma macrorchis, 2 cestodes, Hymenolepis diminuta and Choanotaenia spasskii and 5 nematodes, Parastrongyloides winchesi, Tricholinstowia talpae, Heterakis spumosa, Trichuris sp. and Capillaria soricis were obtained from 129 Mogera wogura, 233 M. kobeae and 28 M. tokudae, which were collected from almost all over Japan. All present cases were new host and locality records. ...

Isozyme electrophoresis was used to assess possible cospeciation of parasites (cestodes of the Progamotaenia festiva complex) and their hosts (Australian diprotodont marsupials) and to compare the extent of interspecific genetic diversity of the parasites and their hosts. On the basis of morphology, there are three species in the complex, although electrophoresis revealed 14 distinct genetic ty...

A total of 299 fish belonging to ten teleost species were studied in Iranian waters at the north-eastern coast of the Persian Gulf for larval trypanorhynch cestode infection. The following trypanorhynch species were identified: Callitetrarhynchus gracilis Pintner, 1931, Pseudogilquinia thomasi (Palm, 2000), Pterobothrium lesteri Campbell and Beveridge, 1996 and Pseudolacistorhynchus shipleyi (S...

Paleoparasitology in the Old World has mainly concerned the study of latrine sediments and coprolites collected from mummified bodies or archaeological strata, mostly preserved by natural conditions. Human parasites recovered include cestodes, trematodes, and nematodes. The well preserved conditions of helminth eggs allowed paleoepidemiological approaches taking into account the number of eggs ...

Veterinary parasitology has traditionally been concerned with the control of parasites of livestock and companion animals, with emphasis on chemotherapy and immunoprophylaxis. 1 One phase the parasite and hostrelationship among the cestodes that concern humans and domestic animals, is that the parasites cause varying degrees of pathogenic alternations. They are, therefore of great interest to t...

Neurocysticercosis (NC) is a common parasito­ sis affecting the central nervous system. It is en­ demic in many developing countries. PraziquanteI was the first drug to show potential efficacy for treatment of NC (Sotelo et ai, 1984). Recently albendazole, an imidazole with activity against in­ testinal and systemic infections by trematodes and cestodes (Anonymous, 1984), demonstrated its effic...

May 2005 1867 ABSTRACT A coprological survey was made to assess the spectrum of helminth parasites in Mithun and other co-existing wild livestock in Bhutan and neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh (India). Nematodes with direct life cycle were found to be most predominant helminth infection among these animals. Cestodes and trematodes were poorly represented as their occurrence is primarily determine...