The numbers and species of helminths recovered from one black wildebeest, Connochaetes gnou, three eland, Taurotragus oryx, 18 mountain reedbuck, Redunca fulvorufula, one red hartebeest, AIcelaphus buselaphus and two springbok, Antidorcas marsupialis, in the Mountain Zebra National Park, Eastern Cape Province; two black wildebeest, two grey rhebuck, Pelea capreolus, two mountain reedbuck and fo...

When human consumes contaminated pork containing cysticerci itresults in the transmission of viablecysticerci to the human small intestine, where by the action of bile and digestive enzymes, the scolexof a cysticercusevaginates and attaches to the intestinal wall. Proglottids multiply and the parasitebecomes a cestode that can be passed in the faeces as mature proglottids. The two main sources ...

Published and personal records have been compiled into a reference list of the helminth parasites of guineafowls. Where data on other avian hosts was available these have been included for completeness' sake and to give an indication of host range. The parasite list for the Helmeted guineafowls, Numida meleagris, includes five species of acanthocephalans, all belonging to a single genus, three ...

Cattle is one of the leading species domestic livestock in Nepal. The helminthic diseases are common with varied occurrence. This study was carried out to find prevalence and risk factor associated gastro-intestinal helminth parasites 304 fecal samples cattle Madi Valley, Chitwan, Rectal sample were collected zip lock plastic bag containing 10% formalin preserved refrigerator before examination...

Cucolepis gen. n. is erected as monotypic for Cucolepis cincta sp. n., a new species of cyclophyllidean cestode of the family Paruterinidae. The new species is described from the squirrel cuckoo, Piaya cayana Lesson (Aves: Cuculiformes), taken from two localities in Paraguay in 1984 and 1985. This new genus is most similar to the genus Triaenorhina Spasskii et Shumilo, 1965 in terms of the hook...

We postulated that apolysis was processed in accordance with apoptotic changes occurring in a cestode, Spirometra erinacei (Pseudophyllidea). We cloned the novel putative apoptosis-associated gene from S. erinacei via screening of a S. erinacei cDNA library with a ced-3 gene (activator of apoptosis) probe from Caenorhabditis elegans. We identified a 261-bp cDNA sequence, which encodes for an 86...