Diseases caused by protozoan parasites are still an important health problem. These parasites can cause a wide spectrum of diseases, some of which are severe and have high morbidity or mortality if untreated. Since they are still uncontrolled, it is important to find novel drug targets and develop new therapies to decrease their remarkable social and economic impact on human societies. In the p...

The present study aimed to establish the information on protozoan diseases in Black tiger shrimp Penaeus monodon during the year 2012. Due to high levels of ciliate infestations can affect respiration, feeding, growth, survival and also irritation behaviour of larvae (zoea, mysis and post larvae) was observed. Protozoan diseases in P. monodon was global problem in hatcheries mainly affect the e...

The Phylum Protozoa brings together several organisms evolutionarily different that may act as ecto or endoparasites of fishes over the world being responsible for diseases, which, in turn, may lead to economical and social impacts in different countries. Apart from the recent advances for the diagnosis of fish diseases in Brazil, little is known on the protozoan parasites and their relationshi...

The adverse effects of parasitic gastrointestinal diseases on poultry production are enormous, especially where birds kept under extensive or semi-intensive systems, but the rarely recognized as primary problems except during necropsy examinations. A two-year longitudinal cohort prospective study was conducted from October 2018 to September 2020 determine prevalence and diagnostic features in V...

In the last decades the need for novel diagnostic and chemotherapeutic tools became apparent. The increasing population and upcoming diverse disease patterns are leading to a synergistic effect, which emphasises the required demand for new types of pharmacological agents. Additionally, newly gained knowledge such as completing the human genome and on-going transcriptome and proteome projects id...

Bivalve mollusc culture is a well-developed marine aquaculture activity in many countries around the world, notably in the northern hemisphere. During the development of this activity, numerous countries have been confronted with infectious diseases of varying severity and duration. Research has been conducted to determine the aetiology, epidemiology and control measures for these epizootics. M...

1 Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Buenos Aires, 1113 Buenos Aires, Argentina 2Unitat de Farmacologia i Farmacognòsia, Facultat de Farmàcia, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain 3 Universidade do Vale do Itajaı́, Núcleo De Investigações Quı́mico-Farmacêuticas (NIQFAR), CCS, Brazil 4Department of Chemistry, University of Alabama in Huntsv...

Diseases by protozoan pathogens pose a significant public health concern, particularly in tropical and subtropical countries, where these are responsible for significant morbidity and mortality. Protozoan pathogens tend to establish chronic infections underscoring their competence at subversion of host immune processes, an important component of disease pathogenesis and of their virulence. Modu...