Parasitic infections are one of the most important causes of morbidity and mortality in our planet and the immune responses triggered by these organisms are critical to determine their outcome. Dendritic cells are key elements for the development of immunity against parasites; they control the responses required to eliminate these pathogens while maintaining host homeostasis. However, there is ...

Other protozoan infections with medical and veterinary significance include those transmitted by ticks, such as babesiosis theileriosis. The burden of diseases is expected to increase globally due the lack approved vaccines, ineffective treatments, evolution medication resistance, globalization climate change, a general neglect parasitic diseases. Researchers must therefore make further efforts...

Aims and Background: For a long time, intestinal parasite infections are among the major problems of Public health in Iran. Our aim was epidemiological studies on the frequency of intestinal parasites in patients referred to medical centers of Shahid Sadoughi University in Yazd during 2015-2016. Materials and Methods: In a two years cross-sectional study in the medical centers of Shahid Sadoug...

Activation of proteolytic cell death pathways may circumvent drug resistance in deadly protozoan parasites such as Plasmodium falciparum and Leishmania. To this end, it is important to define the cell death pathway(s) in parasites and thus characterize proteases such as metacaspases (MCA), which have been reported to induce cell death in plants and Leishmania parasites. We, therefore, investiga...

ABSTRACT: This study assessed microscopic morphology of protozoan and metazoan parasites, as well parasite-associated histopathologic changes in five Brazilian free-ranging armadillos. Three armadillos had intra sarcolemmal cysts Sarcocystis sp. skeletal muscles without changes. One Dasypus novemcinctus was found parasitized with a nematode morphologically compatible an oxyurid the small intest...

Protozoan contamination in produce is of growing importance due to their capacity cause illnesses consumers fresh leafy greens. Viability assays are essential accurately estimate health risk caused by viable parasites that contaminate food. We evaluated the efficacy reverse transcription quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR), propidium monoazide coupled with (q)PCR, and viability staining using iodide thr...