The following account is based on a review lecture given recently at the British Society of Parasitology. We point out that nematode parasites cause very widespread infections of humans, particularly in economically underdeveloped areas where sanitation and hygiene are not adequate. In the absence of adequate clean water and effective vaccines, control and prophylaxis relies on anthelmintic dru...

Abstract Singing birds are adored by so many people in the Special Region of Yogyakarta because their beautiful voices. Even so, these have possibility to carry endoparasitic infections, namely nematode and coccidia. This study was conducted determine incidence coccidia infection singing traded bird stalls Yogyakarta. The were categorized into five feeding guilds, consisting 19 herbivores, gran...

The cytokine interleukin (IL) 12 stimulates T cell and natural killer cell production of interferon (IFN) gamma and inhibits T cell production of IL-4. We investigated the effects of IL-12 on cytokine gene expression, immunoglobulin (Ig)E, mucosal mast cell, and eosinophil responses, and the course of infection in mice inoculated with the nematode parasite Nippostrongylus brasiliensis, as well ...

Parasitic helminth infections have a considerable impact on global human health as well as animal welfare and production. Although co-infection with multiple parasite species within a host is common, there is a dearth of tools with which to study the composition of these complex parasite communities. Helminth species vary in their pathogenicity, epidemiology and drug sensitivity and the interac...

Infections with Onchocerca lupi nematodes are diagnosed sporadically in the United States. We report 8 cases of canine onchocercosis in Minnesota, New Mexico, Colorado, and Florida. Identification of 1 cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 gene haplotype identical to 1 of 5 from Europe suggests recent introduction of this nematode into the United States.

Photorhabdus asymbiotica is an emerging bacterial pathogen that causes locally invasive soft tissue and disseminated bacteremic infections in the United States and Australia. Although the source of infection was previously unknown, we report that the bacterium is found in a symbiotic association with an insect-pathogenic soil nematode of the genus Heterorhabditis.

strongyloides stercoralis (ss) is a unique nematode with an auto infective cycle, so that it completes its life cycle within the human host and can live there for many years. in immunocompromised patients, infection can cause strongyloides hyperinfection syndrome (s.h.s) that is associated with serious morbidity and mortality. as vari-ous infections are one of the leading causes of membranoprol...