The Great Barrier Reef holds the richest array of marine life found anywhere in Australia, including a diverse and fascinating parasite fauna. Members of one group, the trematodes, occur as sexually mature adult worms in almost all Great Barrier Reef bony fish species. Although the first reports of these parasites were made 100 years ago, the fauna has been studied systematically for only the l...

Fauna Europaea provides a public web-service with an index of scientific names (including important synonyms) of all living European land and freshwater animals, their geographical distribution at country level (up to the Urals, excluding the Caucasus region), and some additional information. The Fauna Europaea project covers about 230,000 taxonomic names, including 130,000 accepted species and...

One hundred and eighteen (118) pregnant women were recruited into the study. The aim was to study the effect of soil transmitted helminthes in pregnant women vis-à-vis compared with other haematological parameters.Blood and stool samples were collected and analyzed with standard Haematological and Parasitological equipment.The result showed that there were anaemia, eosinophilia and raised plate...

Metabolites and enzyme activities involved in energy metabolism in Taenia solium cysticerci were determined systematically in vivo in order to illustrate the principles of variation of energy metabolism. Metabolites and enzymes determined included GLC, LAC, PEPCK, PK, LDH, SDH, ICD, XOD, ME, GDH, FR, ATPase, ACP, AKP, G6Pase and FE. The results showed that transport of substances, anaerobic gly...

The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of helminthes eggs in dog feces collected in public areas in Pelotas, RS, Brazil. From January to March of 2012, 15 samples were randomly collected from each of 14 locations in this county. A total of 210 samples were submitted to fecal examinations. The overall prevalence was 57.6%, including both single (67.8%) and multiinfections (32.2%)....

Stool specimens of 1238 workers in western region of Saudi Arabia were examined for infection with intestinal parasites and for fecal occult blood (FOB) to investigate the possibility that enteroparasites correlate to occult intestinal bleeding. Direct smears and formal ether techniques were used for detection of diagnostic stages of intestinal parasites. A commercially available guaiac test wa...

Background Several studies highlight the implication of nitric oxide (NO) in the airways inflammation during asthma. Moreover, asthma is thought to be associated with a systemic inflammation. However, little is known about the systemic production of NO in asmathic patients. In this sense, our aim was to evaluate the in vivo and ex vivo production of NO in Algerian patients with severe asthma. M...

Recent advances in analytical methods and exploration of regional diversity patterns in greater depth than simple whole-fauna patterns may change our understanding of the determinants of latitudinal gradients in species richness. Using a comprehensive database on the geographical distributions of the large fauna of endemic shorefishes from the Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP), we delineated latit...

The Albian- Cenomanian (Kazhdumi Formation) sediments from northeast of Shiraz, Zagros Basin, represents a carbonate sedimentary succession and contain diverse gastropods and bivalves. Detailed studies on 80 samples of invertebrate macrofauna on two stratigraphic sections led to recognized 2 species and 5 genera of gastropods and 7 species and 13 genera of bivalves assemblages. The abscence of ...

the spatangoid genus schizaster agassiz is recorded, for the first time, from the lutetian (middle eocene) deposits of sargaz area, south of kerman, iran. the lutetian sediments of sargaz region contain a rich and divers echinoid fauna represented by cidaridae, conoclypeidae, echinolampadidae, toxopneustidae, phymosomatidae and schizasteridae. schizasteroid echinoids are an important component ...