Abstract This study was performed to assess the possible relationship between gastrointestinal strongylid infections and milk quantity quality in donkeys used for production. Individual fecal samples were collected from 16 multiparous lactating jennies of Amiatina breed at their 6th month lactation. Statistical analysis carried out eggs per gram faeces (EPG) parameters. All animals found shed c...

This work evaluated the in vitro bio-control action of actinomycetes isolated from Egyptian soil against Fasciola gigantica eggs. In this respect, the identified Streptomyces griseolus was the best parasite-control agent which gave the highest mortality percent applying three methods; the first method was the application of the grown bacterial disks with the eggs at zero time on the medium (2% ...

Although Schistosoma japonicum egg granulomas are generally considered to be similar to those of S. mansoni (which are largely immunologic reactions of the delayed hypersensitivity type) there are suggestions that the histopathology and perhaps the etiology of the lesions are different. In mice with light S. japonicum infections, at 5 weeks after infection (2 weeks after egg production began), ...

Proteins secreted by parasite eggs might hold the key to the next antiinflammatory therapy. On page 1319, Smith and colleagues describe the first chemokine binding protein (CKBP) produced by a human pathogen and show that it can suppress acute inflammation in disease models. The blood-dwelling worm Schistosoma mansoni takes advantage of the host’s immune system in two ways. It subverts specific...

Parasites can have dramatic effects on life-history decisions of hosts such as timing of reproduction, clutch size, and investment in individual offspring, depending on the timing of parasite effects on host fitness. Moreover, parasites may influence the optimum values of important life-history traits such as clutch size and brood size by having different fitness effects for large and for small...

ackground: Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan parasite, member of the phylum Apicomplexa. Felids are definitive hosts, and all warm-blooded animals humans intermediate hosts. The clinical symptoms toxoplasmosis among chickens mostly subclinical, but infection eggs important as source protein for human consumption. Objectives: This study aimed to detect T. in chicken meat egg by molecular examinat...

To evaluate the effects of pesticides to parasite eggs, Ascaris suum eggs were incubated with 5 different pesticides (1:1,500-1:2,000 dilutions of 2% emamectin benzoate, 5% spinetoram, 5% indoxacarb, 1% deltamethrin, and 5% flufenoxuron; all v/v) at 20℃ for 6 weeks, and microscopically evaluated the egg survival and development on a weekly basis. The survival rate of A. suum eggs incubated in n...