Taenia solium cysticercosis and its impact in neurological disease

HH Garcia, AE Gonzalez… - Clinical microbiology …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Taenia solium neurocysticercosis (NCC) is endemic in most of the world and contributes
significantly to the burden of epilepsy and other neurological morbidity. Also present in …

Advances in the treatment, diagnosis, control and scientific understanding of taeniid cestode parasite infections over the past 50 years

MW Lightowlers, RB Gasser, A Hemphill… - International journal for …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the past 50 years, enormous progress has been made in the diagnosis, treatment and
control of taeniid cestode infections/diseases and in the scientific understanding thereof …

Fall webworm genomes yield insights into rapid adaptation of invasive species

N Wu, S Zhang, X Li, Y Cao, X Liu, Q Wang… - Nature ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
Invasive species cause considerable ecological and economic damage. Despite decades of
broad impacts of invasives on diversity and agriculture, the genetic adaptations and near …

Anti-coalescence of bosons on a lossy beam splitter

B Vest, MC Dheur, É Devaux, A Baron, E Rousseau… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Two-boson interference, a fundamentally quantum effect, has been extensively studied with
photons through the Hong-Ou-Mandel effect and observed with guided plasmons. Using two …

Exploring evolutionary relationships within Neodermata using putative orthologous groups of proteins, with emphasis on peptidases

V Caña-Bozada, MW Robinson… - Tropical medicine and …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The phylogenetic relationships within Neodermata were examined based on putative
orthologous groups of proteins (OGPs) from 11 species of Monogenea, Trematoda, and …

Phylogenomic Analysis of 155 Helminth Species Reveals Widespread Absence of Oxygen Metabolic Capacity

E Collington, B Lobb, NA Mazen… - Genome Biology and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The terminal electron acceptor of most aerobic respiratory chains, cytochrome c oxidase
(COX), has been highly conserved throughout evolution, from aerobic prokaryotes to …

HIV protease inhibitor nelfinavir is a potent drug candidate against echinococcosis by targeting Ddi1-like protein

Z Liu, X Guo, A Guo, S Zhang, Y Zou, Y Wang, X Li… - …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Alveolar echinococcosis (AE), which is caused by larval Echinococcus
multilocularis, is one of the world's most dangerous neglected diseases. Currently, no fully …

Taenia asiatica: historical overview of taeniasis and cysticercosis with molecular characterization

KS Eom, HJ Rim, HK Jeon - Advances in parasitology, 2020 - Elsevier
Asian Taenia is a human-infecting Taenia tapeworm known as Taenia asiatica following
morphological examination of adult and larval stages of the tapeworm by Eom and Rim …

Historical dispersal and host-switching formed the evolutionary history of a globally distributed multi-host parasite–The Ligula intestinalis species complex

M Nazarizadeh, M Nováková, G Loot… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2023 - Elsevier
Studies on parasite biogeography and host spectrum provide insights into the processes
driving parasite diversification. Global geographical distribution and a multi-host spectrum …

The Genomes of Two Strains of Taenia crassiceps the Animal Model for the Study of Human Cysticercosis

RJ Bobes, K Estrada, DG Rios-Valencia… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Human cysticercosis by Taenia solium is the major cause of neurological illness in countries
of Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Americas. Publication of four cestode genomes (T. solium …