1 Jiangsu Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Wuxi, China, 2 Key Laboratory of Parasitic Disease Control and Prevention, Ministry of Health, Wuxi, China, 3 Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Parasite Molecular Biology, Wuxi, China, 4 Global Health Group, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, 5 National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chine...

1. In a population of American coots ( Fulica americana ) breeding in central British Columbia, Canada, some females pursued a reproductive strategy that combined nesting with laying parasitic eggs in the nests of conspecifics. To understand why only one quarter of the nesting females laid parasitically, I examined social and ecological factors that could potentially constrain nesting females f...

Three hundred children with hepatomegaly were selected. They were subjected to full clinical and laboratory examinations. Also serum samples were examined to detect IgG using ELISA against SEA, chromatography purified hydatid cyst antigen, commercially available Toxoplasma antigen, partially purified adult Fasciola antigen and second-stage larvae Toxocara canis antigen. IFAT was used to detect ...

was corrected according to your comment 2.

Parasitic myomas are those that have become partially or almost completely separated from the uterus and receive their main blood-supply from another source. The etiopathogenesis of parasitic myomas may be separation of peduncululated subserosal myomas that have outgrown their blood supply. More commonly, iatrogenic parasitic myomas may be caused by seeding of myoma fragments following morcella...

A field experiment was conducted to investigate the soil application of two Rhizobacteria, (MTCC and Pf-5) and urea treatments, separately and in combination on free living and plant parasitic nematodes. All the treatments significantly decreased the number of plant-parasitic nematodes with the increasing of plant growth. Both Rhizobacteria and urea were separately effective in suppressing plan...

Castration is a response to the tradeoff between consumption and longevity faced by parasites. Common parasitic castrators include larval trematodes in snails, and isopod and barnacle parasites of crustaceans. The infected host (with its many unique properties) is the extended phenotype of the parasitic castrator. Because an individual parasitic castrator can usurp all the reproductive energy f...

Parasitic plants have the ability to obtain nutrients directly from other plants, and several species are serious biological threats to agriculture by parasitizing crops of high economic importance. The uniqueness of parasitic plants is characterized by the presence of a multicellular organ called a haustorium, which facilitates plant-plant interactions, and shutting down or reducing their own ...

We measured enteric parasitic infection prevalence and the effect of treatment on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) RNA levels to assess their importance to HIV primary care in resource-limited settings. Adults in Lilongwe, Malawi, were evaluated, treated, and followed-up for parasitic and HIV infections. Of 389 patients, 266 (68%) were HIV infected. Helminth infections were more common in HIV...