Publications by authors named "Tianlu Liu"
Ascaris is highly adaptable, allowing its offspring to thrive in various conditions and posing significant health risks widely among animal populations. Most studies regarding the efficacy of disinfectants against Ascaris eggs in animal houses have been limited and lack a systematic and comprehensive evaluation. Currently, Ascaris suum is one of the most extensively studied helminths in the context of parasitology.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Aims: Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is a serious and acute central nervous system infection caused by the tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV). In recent years, TBE has emerged as a growing public health threat, with cases reported across Europe, the Russian Far East, Japan and China. This study aims to assess the prevalence of TBEV infection and examine behaviours associated with an increased risk of infection among individuals who visited the Heilongjiang Red Cross Sengong General Hospital due to tick bites from 2020 to 2023.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCosmocercoid nematodes are common parasites of the digestive tract of amphibians. Genomic resources are important for understanding the evolution of a species and the molecular mechanisms of parasite adaptation. So far, no genome resource of Cosmocercoid has been reported.
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- - The Ascaridoidea and Heterakoidea families are large parasites, and research has expanded our understanding of their diversity using mitochondrial genes, but evolutionary rates remain unclear.
- - This study analyzed ten complete mitogenome sequences from various subfamilies and found that Ascaridoidea splits into six distinct clades, with divergence occurring around 300-360 million years ago during the early Carboniferous Period.
- - The gene orders in Ascaridoidea are mostly conserved, while Heterakoidea shows significant genome rearrangement, mainly through a process known as tandem-duplication/random loss (TDRL), which provides insights into the evolutionary trends and genetic relationships among these species.
The muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus) is a semi-aquatic rodent species with ecological, economic, and medicinal importance. Here, we present an improved genome assembly, which is the first high-quality chromosome-level genome of the muskrat with high completeness and contiguity assembled using single-tube long fragment read, BGISEQ, and Hi-C sequencing technologies. The genome size of the final assembly was 2.
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- * A study involving over 156,000 participants across 17 countries found that while high-income countries had the highest risk-factor scores, they experienced fewer major cardiovascular events compared to middle- and low-income countries.
- * Preventive treatments and surgeries were notably more common in high-income countries, highlighting a disparity in healthcare resources that contributes to the higher mortality rates in low-income settings.