A 69 year old female presented in 2005, with painful swelling and discharging sinus of right ankle of 1 week duration. She was under treatment for bone marrow confirmed myelodysplastic syndrome. On examination she had pallor, swelling of the right ankle and a discharging sinus on the lateral aspect with a thick-thread like structure coming out of it. The thick-thread like structure was initiall...

A 23-year-old man presented to La Paz Hospital complaining of a “worm moving in his eye.” He was otherwise healthy. On examination under natural light a mobile worm was seen in the superior subconjunctival space. When exposed to the bright light/heat of the slit lamp it migrated to the fornix; moments later the worm was visible again and every time it was exposed to the light it would disappear...

It is well established that reproduction is sensitive to the state of energy reserves, and that there is a balance between energy homeostasis and fertility. In this view, this study examined the effects of different diets on growth and reproductive performance of fresh water angelfish. Twenty four pairs of angelfish (weighing 3.58 ± 0.24 g) were fed with four types of diets including live earth...

BACKGROUND Trichinella spiralis expresses paramyosin (Ts-PMY) not only as a structural protein but also as an immunomodulatory protein to protect the worm from being attacked by host complement components. In this study, the functions of PMY in the viability and the growth development of T. spiralis were confirmed at the first time by silencing the gene function with RNA interference technique....

We investigated the effect of bovine anamnestic immunity on a range of parasitological variables. To this end, calves were primed with a single oral dose of 30000 or 100000 infective larvae (L3) of Cooperia oncophora, drenched with anthelmintic, maintained worm free in the following 2.5 months and subsequently re-infected with 100000 L3. Parasitological profiles of low, intermediate, and high r...

VANWYK, J.A. 1999. A comparison of the infectivity of cryopreserved versus unfrozen infective larvae of Haemonchus contortus, Trichostrongylus colubriformis and Trichostrongylus axei: Results of the Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute from 1977 to the present. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research , 66:285289 The infectivity for sheep of cryopreserved infective larvae (L3) of various stra...

The present study explored the embryonic and larval development of an endangered fish species Nandus nandus and resolved larval growth performances with the dietary supplementation of different types of lipids. Fertilized eggs were collected from fiber glass tanks immediately after spontaneous spawning of N. nandus, which were fed with a 1% phospholipid (squid meal) supplemented diet for 3 mont...

Dracunculiasis, or guinea worm disease (GWD), is a disabling infection caused by the nematode parasite Dracunculus medinensis. The disease is endemic in India, Africa, and the Middle East. People become infected when they drink water containing tiny crustaceans, called copepods or " water fleas, " that act as intermediate hosts of the organism and harbor infective larvae. When the ingested co-p...