In many infection experiments attention has been focused mainly on the rate of the larval development of F. hepatica and the number of rediae and mature cercariae produced by infected L. truncatula (Kendall, 1949; Roberts, 1950; Boray, 1969). Very little consideration has been given to the actual numbers of cercariae which emerge from infected snails. Knowledge of the output of cercariae from i...

Drug development begins with medicinal plants as valuable materials. Euphorbia hirta (EH) andNauclea latifolia (NL) are important having applications in the management ofinfectious diseases. This research aimed at evaluating EH and NL leaves for their anthelminticproperty establishment of probable dauer diapause effect induced via interaction daf-12nuclear receptor worms using standard procedur...

The efficacy of Gomphrenacelosioides extracts in traditional medicine in the treatment of infectious diseases was evaluated by biological assays. The bioactivities of the extracts of this plant were tested against organisms. The ethyl acetate and methanol extracts of the plant displayed inhibition activities on Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli a...

The aim of the present work was to investigate the Schistosoma mansoni and Fasciola gigantica cross-reactivity between adult worms and egg homogenates of the parasites. Immunoprophylactic effects of crude Schistosoma mansoni worms and egg antigens mixed with or without saponins extracted from Atriplex nummularia were studied followed by challenge with 80 cercariae of Schistosoma mansoni. Our re...