Leishmania promastigotes express several prominent glycoconjugates, either secreted or anchored to the parasite surface. Of these lipophosphoglycan (LPG) is the most abundant, and along with other phosphoglycan-bearing molecules, plays important roles in parasite infectivity and pathogenesis in both the sand fly and the mammalian host. Besides its contribution for parasite survival in the sand ...

this paper presents a total of 11 known crustacean parasite species from 51 host species belonging to 7 families, with 17 genera reported from cultured and wild fishes in three faunal regions of iran. among them, one belonging to branchiura order, namely argulus foliaceus, was found on capoeta capoeta in makoo reservoir as well as on cyprinus carpio, chalcalburnus sp., hypophthalmichthys molitr...

hyalomma marginatum is a hard-bodied tick found on animals. this tick has been implicated in the transmission of bahig virus, a pathogenic arbovirus previously thought to be transmitted only by mosquitoes.

The global increase in antibiotic use has led to contamination of freshwater environments. Despite the identified impacts antibiotics on humans and wildlife, effect host–parasite life cycles is relatively unexplored. In current study, we utilize trematode parasite Schistosoma mansoni, its snail intermediate host, Biomphalaria glabrata, investigate influence an ecologically relevant concentratio...

The greenfin horse-faced filefish (Thamnaconus septentrionalis) is susceptible to recurrent Amyloodinium ocellatum (AO) infestation over the grow-out production cycle. This parasite breeds mainly on gills, causing hypoxia in fish body, and leading many deaths. host-parasite response drives a complex immune reaction, which poorly understood. To generate model for interaction pathogenesis of AO f...

Host-parasite checklists are essential resources in ecological parasitology, and are regularly used as sources of data in comparative studies of parasite species richness across host species, or of host specificity among parasite species. However, checklists are only useful datasets if they are relatively complete, that is, close to capturing all host-parasite associations occurring in a partic...

This study focuses on the interaction between an entomopathogenic nematode and an insect model to further investigate the role of parasite body-surface and its compounds (particularly epicuticular lipids) in the immunosuppression of host defences. Our goal was to ascertain the potential interference of the parasite epicuticular lipids with the antimicrobial response mounted by Gram-negative bac...

This review focuses on the proteins and secretions of sedentary plant parasitic nematodes potentially important for plant-nematode interactions. These nematodes are well equipped for parasitism of plants. Having acquired the ability to manipulate fundamental aspects of plant biology, they are able to hijack host-cell development to make their feeding site. They feed exclusively from feeding sit...