Parasitic Diseases (Parasitic Disease)

01/01/2013 - "The aim of this report was to document the constraints associated with DNA extraction for the diagnosis of parasitic diseases and illustrate the adaptation of an automated extraction system, NucliSENS easyMAG, to these constraints, with a critical analysis of system performance. "
08/04/2011 - "Biological research, including epidemiological research, makes the widest use of DNA-based diagnostics, delivering enhanced understanding of parasites and guidelines for managing parasitic diseases. "
08/04/2011 - "Despite this, only a few DNA-based tests for parasitic diseases are routinely available, and most of these are optional tests used occasionally in disease diagnosis. "
07/01/2011 - "Our results open new possibilities for targeted prevention of J-DNA recognition as a therapeutic intervention for parasitic diseases."
04/01/2010 - "The present paper gives the results of development of DNA diagnosticum, which differentiates parasitic diseases induced by O. "

11/27/1981 - "Characterization of the S-phase cell surface components responsible for this phenomenon could be beneficial in the development of vaccines against these parasitic diseases."
09/01/1994 - "Progress toward the development of vaccines against parasitic diseases: a review based on studies performed by participants of the Laveran seminar."
06/01/2015 - "Demands for effective vaccines to control parasitic diseases of humans and livestock have been recently exacerbated by the development of resistance of most pathogenic parasites to anti-parasitic drugs. "
02/01/2015 - "Prevalent drug resistance, lack of highly effective and practical vaccines, as well as specific and sensitive diagnostic markers are proving to be challenging problems in parasitic disease control in most parts of the world. "
05/01/2014 - "Vaccines against tropical parasitic diseases: a persisting answer to a persisting problem."

01/01/2008 - "The method applied in this work is the demonstration of antibodies against the helminth in the blood of children, target host population of this parasitic disease. "
06/01/2004 - "Unfortunately, international reference standards for parasitic diseases are not available at present, except for Toxoplasma antibodies. "
11/01/1996 - "The anti-Toxocara antibodies assay is of great value in establishing the diagnosis of this parasitic disease."
03/01/1995 - "Seropositivity to HIV in Africans usually represents no more than cross-reactivity caused by an abundance of antibodies induced by the numerous infectious and parasitic diseases which are endemic in Africa. "
12/01/1984 - "They described their adaptation of the technique for detection of antimicrofilaria Loa loa antibodies and concluded that ELISA technique is reliable in the diagnosis of parasitic diseases even in areas where they are endemic."

04/01/2007 - "Antiparasitic drugs have been used successfully to control parasitic diseases in animals for many years, as they are safe, cheap and effective against a broad spectrum of parasites. "
01/01/1991 - "The emergence of new parasitic diseases has encouraged studies on the elucidation of the mode of action of new and old antiparasitic drugs, and has led to the development of new chemical series. "
09/01/2015 - "Most eukaryotic species have at least one immunophilin and some of them have been associated with pathogenesis of infectious or parasitic diseases or the action of antiparasitic drugs. "
06/01/2014 - "The control of parasitic diseases is performed via the administration of antiparasitic drugs, but they leave residues of the products in the treated animal, affect non-target organisms and select resistant strains of the parasites. "
10/01/2011 - "Safe and efficacious antiparasitic drugs for children are of pivotal importance given the large proportion of burden attributable to parasitic diseases in this age group, and growing efforts to administer, as widely as possible, antiparasitic drugs to at-risk populations, such as infants and school-aged children, often without prior diagnosis. "

08/01/2005 - "In the last decade, DNA vaccines were successful in inducing at least partial protection against several parasitic diseases. "
02/01/2010 - "DNA vaccines: a rational design against parasitic diseases."
08/01/2005 - "This review discusses the latest developments in DNA vaccines against tropical parasitic diseases."
08/01/2005 - "DNA vaccines against tropical parasitic diseases."
06/24/2009 - "DNA vaccines are promising tools to fight parasitic diseases, including amoebiasis caused by the protozoan Entamoeba histolytica. "

11/01/1997 - "For the serodiagnosis of this parasitic disease, two immunodominant clones from a bovine Neospora lambda gt11 library were identified, characterized, and expressed as recombinant proteins for the development of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). "
06/01/1993 - "Recombinant proteins have been proposed as subunit vaccines for many viral, bacterial and parasitic diseases, to reduce adverse side effects associated with inactivated or attenuated vaccines. "
01/01/2012 - "Furthermore, we show that naked DNA coupled with raw recombinant proteins produced in insect larvae biofactories -the cheapest way of producing DNA-PROT vaccines- is a practical and cost-effective way for potential "off the shelf" supplying vaccines at very low prices for the protection against leishmaniases, and possibly against other parasitic diseases affecting the poorest of the poor."
06/01/1995 - "In the quest for effective immunization against complex diseases such as cancer, parasitic diseases, AIDS, and other viral infections, numerous peptides and recombinant proteins have been synthesized, examined for the ability to induce antibodies and CTLs, and tested for binding capability and therapeutic or prophylactic efficacy against the original target cell or organism. "

01/01/1995 - "A workshop for collaborative study on circulating Schistosoma japonicum antigen detection was held at the Hunan Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Yueyang, Hunan Province in May, 1993. "
06/01/1984 - "The selection of antigens for the diagnosis, prognosis and evolutive study of parasitic diseases."
09/01/1983 - "Studies are in progress on more than 50 antigens for more than 30 different bacterial, viral, and parasitic diseases."
04/01/2013 - "When the sera from patients with various parasitic and non-parasitic diseases were analyzed with the purified antigen ES/ L3, they were only reactive between 10 to 20%. "
11/01/2003 - "The test detected antigen in 1 (4%) of 25 controls with other parasitic disease, and no antigen was detected in the serum of 25 healthy controls. "

07/01/2014 - "Our study thus provides proof-of-principle evidence of the feasibility of using bioinformatics to identify novel targets for the immunodiagnosis of parasitic diseases using proteins that are highly conserved throughout evolution. "
08/01/2014 - "Therefore, understanding the role of the NLR proteins will be critical to understanding the host defense against parasites as well as the fine balance between homeostasis and parasitic disease."
08/01/2014 - "NLR proteins and parasitic disease."
01/01/2011 - "Over the last years, aptamer technology has been used in a wide range of diagnostic and therapeutic applications and, concretely, several strategies are currently being explored using aptamers against Plasmodium and trypanosomatid proteins associated with parasitic diseases which affect hundreds of millions people. "
01/01/2011 - "Saposin-like proteins (SAPLIPs) from soil-transmitted helminths play pivotal roles in host-pathogen interactions and have a high potential as targets for vaccination against parasitic diseases. "

07/01/2006 - "These results provide the basis for further studies of these and other structurally related peptides as alternative treatments for parasitic diseases mainly with associated drug resistances."
01/01/2014 - "We hope that ParaPep will be advantageous in designing therapeutic peptides against parasitic diseases. "
01/01/2013 - "Insects serve as vectors of many human parasitic diseases and have been shown to express a huge variety of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs). "
02/01/2004 - "Antimicrobial peptides are rarely used as alternative treatments for naturally acquired parasitic diseases. "
08/01/2003 - "Herein, are critically reviewed the relevant advances and applications of the synthetic peptides on immunodiagnosis of parasitic diseases. "

08/01/2004 - "Mass treatment with ivermectin was an effective and safe means of reducing the prevalence of most of the parasitic diseases prevalent in a poor community in north-east Brazil. "
01/01/2003 - "For the past few years, world-wide reports on the use of ivermectin in various parasitic diseases with cutaneous tropism have led to its use in the field of skin parasitology. "
02/01/2000 - "Ivermectin (IVM) is the drug of choice for a variety of parasitic diseases due to its broad spectrum of activity and wide margin of safety. "
01/01/1987 - "The prolonged elimination of dermal microfilariasis caused by sequestration followed by degeneration of the microfilaria in the uterus of females raises the hope that Ivermectin used in a single annual or bi-annual dose will contribute to the interruption of the transmission of this serious parasitic disease."
10/01/2007 - "Ivermectin is one of the most commonly used drugs in pharmacotherapy of parasitic diseases in domestic and wild animals caused by parasitic nematodes and arthropods. "

09/01/1990 - "The above mentioned biological approaches should increase the efficacy of chemotherapy in parasitic diseases with smaller amounts of specific drugs and less courses of treatment."
08/01/2015 - "Chemotherapy for leishmaniosis a neglected parasitic disease, is based on few drugs, which are toxic and present resistance issues. "
08/05/2013 - "Preventive chemotherapy as a strategy for elimination of neglected tropical parasitic diseases: endgame challenges."
01/01/2013 - "Because of the metabolic differences between host cells and parasite cells, polyamine metabolism has been considered as a potential target for the chemotherapy of parasitic diseases. "
05/01/2010 - "Parasitic diseases: chemotherapy with a twist."

01/01/2014 - "Fish-based therapeutics is fundamentally based on a dietary use, but these vertebrates have also been employed in the treatment of infectious and parasitic diseases, during pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum and to deal with diseases of the different systems. "
01/01/2014 - "This property makes Chagas a complex parasitic disease in terms of prophylaxis and therapeutics. "
06/30/2011 - "As a neurosurgeon, Sim tackled with parasitic diseases of the central nervous system with various diagnostics and therapeutics. "
09/01/2001 - "Understanding the role that telomere maintenance might play in the cell life span of trypanosomatids has important implications for therapeutics of parasitic diseases."
02/29/2000 - "Chemical intervention in parasitic disease is therefore here to stay but the paucity of new antiparasitic products in the short term dictates that present therapeutics are all that producers will have for the foreseeable future. "

05/01/2015 - "Prospectively, targeting FGL2 could be an option to develop an immunotherapy against AE and other chronic parasitic diseases."
01/04/1990 - "Immunotherapy for parasitic disease."
10/15/2007 - "chagasi may identify proteins essential for immune protection against this parasitic disease and reveal strategies for immunotherapy or prevention."
09/01/2000 - "In this respect, proteases are proposed as major potential targets for immunotherapy and chemotherapy against parasitic diseases."
01/01/1983 - "Monoclonal antibodies have been used as structural probes for proteins and hormones, and as highly specific agents for histocompatibility testing, tumor localization, immunotherapy, purification of molecules, identification of new surface antigens on lymphocytes and tumor cells, and detection of drug levels and microbial and parasitic diseases. "

02/01/2007 - "Logistic regression analysis revealed a correlation of sex, day care center attendance and certain diagnostic groups associated with frequent attendance: infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-A99), diseases of the eye and adnexa (H00-H59), middle ear diseases (H60-H95), respiratory system diseases (J00-J99), skin and subcutaneous tissue diseases (L00-L99), and genitourinary system diseases (N00-N99). "
09/01/1991 - "Strict adherence to hygienic procedures may also decrease the risk of intestinal parasitic disease among healthy children attending day-care centers."
09/01/1991 - "Our experience suggests that with appropriate precautions human immunodeficiency virus-infected children can participate in a group day-care program without excessive risk for parasitic disease. "
09/01/1991 - "One particular worry was intestinal parasitic disease, a serious public health problem in day-care centers throughout the United States. "
09/01/1991 - "This study reports the incidence of intestinal parasitic disease at the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome day-care center during its first 40 months of operation, encompassing 669 child-months of enrollment, with 131 stool specimens examined for ova and parasites. "

07/01/2015 - "The aim of this study is to identify the advantages and disadvantages of minimally invasive surgery and compare the outcomes with patients undergoing thoracotomy in this parasitic disease. "