The One Health approach to Strongyloides stercoralis.

The One Health concept systematically considers the health of humans, animals and the environment, emphasizing population and ecosystem health based on individual health. Strongyloides stercoralis is a soil-transmitted opportunistic pathogenic parasite that can cause strongyloidiasis in both humans and animals, potentially leading to severe disease or even death in immunocompromised hosts. This article outlines the epidemiological status, diagnosis and treatment methods of strongyloidiasis.

Epidemiological survey on prevalence and subtypes distribution of Blastocystis sp. in Southern Guizhou, China.

Blastocystis sp. is one of the most common intestinal protozoan parasites of humans worldwide and often has genetic polymorphisms. Due to its high prevalence and the possibility of potential transmission to humans, this study was carried out to investigate the prevalence of Blastocystis sp.

Multilayer omics reveals the molecular mechanism of early infection of Clonorchis sinensis juvenile.

Background: Clonorchiasis remains a non-negligible global zoonosis, causing serious socioeconomic burdens in endemic areas. Clonorchis sinensis infection typically elicits Th1/Th2 mixed immune responses during the course of biliary injury and periductal fibrosis. However, the molecular mechanism by which C.

Characterization of a non-sexual population of Strongyloides stercoralis with hybrid 18S rDNA haplotypes in Guangxi, Southern China.

Strongyloidiasis is a much-neglected but sometimes fatal soil born helminthiasis. The causing agent, the small intestinal parasitic nematode Strongyloides stercoralis can reproduce sexually through the indirect/heterogonic life cycle, or asexually through the auto-infective or the direct/homogonic life cycles. Usually, among the progeny of the parasitic females both, parthenogenetic parasitic (females only) and sexual free-living (females and males) individuals, are present simultaneously.

A novel genotype screening and phylogenetic analysis of Blastocystis hominis based on EF-1α.

Blastocystis hominis (B. h) is a kind of intestinal parasitic protozoa with the characteristic of worldwide distribution, morphology diversity, and diarrhea induced, etc. The traditional morphological classify was difficult to distinguish the genetic difference of B.

The correlation of Tim-3 and IFN-γ expressions in mice infected with Toxoplasma gondii during gestation.

The immunoinhibitory receptor T cell immunoglobulin domain and mucin domain-1 (Tim-1) and Tim-3 participate in the regulation of Th immune response as well as innate immunity. However, there is no report about the expression of Tim genes in Toxoplasma gondii-infected experimental models during pregnancy. In this study, Kunming outbred pregnant mice were infected with RH strain of T.

Comparison of dynamic expressions of Tim-3 and PD-1 in the brains between toxoplasmic encephalitis-resistant BALB/c and -susceptible C57BL/6 mice.

T cells and IFN-γ are essential for controlling the reactivation of toxoplasmic encephalitis (TE), regardless of whether mice are susceptible or resistant to TE. It has been demonstrated that CD8(+) T cells exhausted in chronic Toxoplasma gondii infection result in TE reactivation in C57BL/6 mice. However, this phenomenon had not been reported in genetically TE-resistant BALB/c mice.

Cryopreservation of Toxoplasma gondii in infected murine tissues.

Laboratory maintenance of the RH strain of Toxoplasma gondii is generally done by passage in mice, in vitro propagation in fibroblasts, or cryopreservation of peritoneal exudates from mice infected with T. gondii. To explore alternative techniques for preserving laboratory T.