Background and objectives: Leishmaniasis is caused by the genus of Leishmania and is one of the important health problems worldwide. Serious side effects, the lack of effective vaccines and the emergence of drug resistance are the major weak points of leishmaniasis treatment. The purpose of this study was to evaluate leishmanicidal effects of Allium giganteum ...

Equisetum giganteum L. (E. giganteum), Equisetaceae, commonly called "giant horsetail," is an endemic plant of Central and South America and is used in traditional medicine as diuretic and hemostatic in urinary disorders and in inflammatory conditions among other applications. The chemical composition of the extract EtOH 70% of E. giganteum has shown a clear presence of phenolic compounds deriv...

Questions: Do large, old Sequoiadondron giganteum trees respond to the creation of adjacent canopy gaps? Do other co-occurring tree species and younger S. giganteum adjacent to gaps also respond? What are the likely factors affecting growth responses? Location: Mixed-conifer forests of the southern Sierra Nevada, California, USA. Methods: We measured the growth response of large, old S. gigante...

Sauromatum giganteum (Engl.) Cusimano and Hett, a synonym is Typhonium giganteum Engl., the dried root tuber of which is named Baifuzi in Chinese and recorded in Chinese pharmacopoeia as a traditional Chinese medicine (Gao et al., 2007; Chi et al., 2010). It has the effect of “dispelling wind-phelgm” and has been used for the folklore treatment of cancer for a long time in Northeast of China. A...

Blood smears from 132 skates Raja spp. captured on the continental shelf off Galicia (NW Spain) were examined for blood parasites. The skate species were Raja brachyura (n=60), R. microocellata (n=52) and a total of 20 specimens belonging to R. undulata, R. montagui and another 2 unidentified Raja species, all captured between March 1999 and March 2000. Two blood parasite species were found, Tr...

BACKGROUND Lagenidium giganteum forma caninum infection causes severe cutaneous and disseminated disease in dogs. Currently, diagnosis requires culture and rRNA gene sequencing. OBJECTIVE To develop and evaluate an ELISA for quantitation of anti-L. giganteum f. caninum IgG in canine serum. ANIMALS Sera were evaluated from 22 dogs infected with L. giganteum f. caninum, 12 dogs infected with ...

Infections of mammals by species in the phylum Oomycota taxonomically and molecularly similar to known Lagenidium giganteum strains have increased. During 2013-2014, we conducted a phylogenetic study of 21 mammalian Lagenidium isolates; we found that 11 cannot be differentiated from L. giganteum strains that the US Environmental Protection Agency approved for biological control of mosquitoes; t...