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Molecular Survey of Protist Enteroparasites in Bats (Order Chiroptera) from Portugal.
Acta Parasitol
January 2025
ICBAS-Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Purpose: Bats constitute 20% of all mammal species, playing a vital role in ecosystem health as pollinators, seed dispersers, and regulators of insect populations. However, these animals can also be reservoirs for infectious agents, including viruses, bacteria, and enteroparasites such as Cryptosporidium spp., Giardia duodenalis, and Balantioides coli, raising questions about their role in the epidemiology of these agents.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInvestigation of the Occurrence of Zoonotic Intestinal Parasites along the Karmanasa River Bank in Lalitpur, Nepal.
Vet Med Sci
January 2025
Department of Zoology, Tri-Chandra Multiple Campus, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Introduction: Increasing urbanization has particularly affected rivers and their outer edges in cities, including Kathmandu Valley, which encompasses Lalitpur, the nation's third-largest city. This study aims to conduct a parasitological survey to investigate the occurrence of zoonotic intestinal protozoa and helminths along the Karmanasa River bank in central Nepal.
Methods: Faecal samples from openly defaecating animals were collected via non-invasive techniques, and coproscopy was carried out using direct wet mount, concentration and acid-fast staining methods to ensure reliable findings.
Testing the 'parasite-mediated domestication' hypothesis: a comparative approach to the wild boar and domestic pig as model species.
PeerJ
November 2024
Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Department of Animal Science, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia.
Article Synopsis
- The domestication process has been extensively studied, beginning with Belyaev's experiment on silver foxes, which showed that selecting for tameness disrupts systems controlling development, leading to typical domestication traits.
- Additional hypotheses, like the thyroid rhythm and neural crest cell hypotheses, have been proposed, but the recent parasite-mediated domestication hypothesis (PMD) suggests that endoparasites may play a critical role in this process.
- Research comparing parasite loads in wild boars and domestic pigs from Slovenia and Croatia found different parasite taxa in both populations, providing a basis to explore how parasite susceptibility may have contributed to domestication.
Diversity and Prevalence of Helminths and Protozoa Among Pregnant Women in Tropical Ecuador: Implications for Chemotherapy.
Am J Trop Med Hyg
November 2024
Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Deworming for pregnant women using a single dose of albendazole or mebendazole is recommended by the WHO in areas where the baseline prevalence of hookworm and/or trichuriasis is >20%. However, other helminths and protozoa infecting pregnant women are not affected by these drugs and dosages. To assess the prevalence and diversity of intestinal helminth and protozoan infections, we analyzed stool samples from pregnant women recently enrolled into a birth cohort, along a rural-urban gradient in northern coastal Ecuador from 2019 to 2022.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEpidemiological survey of gastrointestinal helminths and protozoa in Testudines from Sardinia, Italy.
Vet Parasitol Reg Stud Reports
September 2024
Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari, Strada Provinciale per Casamassima, 70010 Valenzano, Bari, Italy.
The order Testudines comprises some of the most endangered groups of vertebrates. Under specific circumstances, infectious and parasitic diseases may affect the survival and fecundity of these animals, potentially threatening Testudines populations. In Sardinia, besides the three species of tortoises present in the wild (Testudo hermanni, Testudo graeca and Testudo marginata), many others are kept as pets.
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