FDA-approved, postoperative use of leeches can lead to bacterial infections. In this study, we used culture-dependent and culture-independent approaches to characterize the digestive-tract microbiota of Hirudo orientalis. Surprisingly, two Aeromonas species, A. veronii and A. jandaei, were cultured. Uncultured Rikenella-like bacteria were most similar to isolates from Hirudo verbana.

two 60 day experiments on predation behavior of leeches were conducted concurrently. in the first, medicinal leeches, hirudo orientalis (utevsky and trontelj, 2005) were fed to satiation on bovine blood and subsequently transferred into two large opaque plastic containers of equal size but with differing temperatures, 6-7?c and 23-24?c, containing starved erpobdella octoculata (l.). at the high...

The use of leeches as a highly efficient natural medicine treatment has experienced a resurgence in human therapy, particularly in German speaking countries and the US. The number of leech treatments in Germany has amounted to about 100.000 per year. In addition to the return of diverse applications of medicinal leeches for human treatment, the leech (Hirudo medicinalis/verbana/orientalis) has ...

The current study was performed to determine Hirudinea species diversity collected from rice fields of Guilan province June 2012 2020. This reports the most recent information on leech (Annelida, Clitellata) in this region. Morphological characters and DNA barcode analysis were used identify samples. According acquired results, there two families zone (Glossiphoniidae Hirundinidae). Based morph...

408e Although blood letting and the use of leeches dates back to pharaonic Egypt,1 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration only approved the use of Hirudo medicinalis as a medical device in 2004.2 Leeches are used by plastic,3–7 maxillofacial,8–10 and other surgeons11,12 to aid salvage of venously congested pedicled flaps,13,14 freetissue transfers,3,15–17 replanted digits,6,18–25 ears,26–32 lips...

UNLABELLED The purpose of research is to study the influence of plant mitogens and antigens of the water-salt extract from the bodies of Hirudo verbana, H. medicinalis, H. orientalis on the reaction of lymphocyte blast-transformation and the synthesis of pro-inflammatory cytokines (IL-1β, IL-8, TNF-α) in patients' cell culture supernatants before and after hirudotherapy. RESEARCH METHODS the ...