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Capillariid nematodes (Nematoda: Capillariidae) parasitic in the common cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), with redescription of Baruscapillaria carbonis (Dubinin et Dubinina, 1940)

Denisa Frantová

Folia Parasitologica 48[3] 225-230 (2001) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2001.037  

Two species of the genus Baruscapillaria Moravec, 1982 are known to parasitise the small intestine of the common cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo (L.): Baruscapillaria carbonis (Dubinin et Dubinina, 1940) and B. rudolphii Moravec, Scholz et Našincová, 1994. A redescription of the former species, based on specimens collected from common cormorants shot in South Bohemia, Czech Republic, is provided. Morphological features distinguishing B. carbonis and B. rudolphii are specified. B. carbonis is characterised mainly by the well-developed membranous bursa in the male, composed of five distinct...

Comparison of virulence of Coxiella burnetii isolates from bovine milk and from ticks

Elena Kocianová, Elena Kováčová, Ivan Literák

Folia Parasitologica 48[3] 235-239 (2001) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2001.039  

Laboratory animals (mice and guinea pigs) were infected with the isolates of Coxiella burnetii (Derrick, 1939) obtained from bovine milk (M18 and M35) and the ticks Ixodes ricinus (Linnaeus, 1758) and Dermacentor marginatus (Sulzer, 1776) (Kl₃ and Kl₆, respectively), and with the reference strain Nine Mile. Neither mortality nor lethality occurred with the mice. Antibody response in mice infected with isolates from milk was lower (1 : 16-512) than that from ticks (1 : 32-4096). Onset of seropositivity also occurred later - on the 10^th day post-infection (p.i.) for M18 and M35 in comparison with...

Occurrence of a new microsporidium in the skeletal muscle of the flying fish Cypselurus pinnatibarbatus japonicus (Exocoetidae) from Yakushima, Japan

Hiroshi Yokoyama, Sun-Joung Lee, Andrew S. Bell

Folia Parasitologica 49[1] 9-15 (2002) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2002.003  

A new microsporidium was observed in the flying fish Cypselurus pinnatibarbatus japonicus (Franz) (Exocoetidae) from Yakushima, Japan. Visual examination revealed the microsporidium to form white elongate nodules in the host's trunk muscle. Monomorphic spores were ovoid to pyriform in shape, with average dimensions of 4.1 × 2.2 µm and possessing a polar tube describing 13-15 coils. Histological observations showed that each parasite focus of infection was encapsulated by a host-produced fibrous membrane. The presence of sporophorous vesicles was not clearly determined. Ribosomal DNA sequence analyses showed the microsporidium to be discrete...

F. Moravec: Checklist of the Metazoan Parasites of Fishes of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic (1873-2000).

Tomáš Scholz

Folia Parasitologica 49[1] 16 (2002) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2002.005  

Academia, Praha, 2001. ISBN 80-200-0907-8, hardback, 168 pp. Price CZK (Czech crowns) 195.00.

Redescription of the female of Gnathia africana (Crustacea: Isopoda: Gnathiidae) from southern Africa

Nico J. Smit, Jo G. Van As, Linda Basson

Folia Parasitologica 49[1] 67-72 (2002) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2002.013  

A redescription of the female of the temporary fish parasite, Gnathia africana Barnard, 1914 is provided from specimens reared from final-stage G. africana praniza larvae collected from their intertidal fish hosts along the south coast of southern Africa. It differs from other known gnathiid females in the shape of the frontal border and the number and basic form of pylopod articles. This redescription aims to establish a format for future descriptions and redescriptions of gnathiid females.

A new form of raabeia-type actinosporean (Myxozoa) from the oligochaete Uncinais uncinata

Janet Koprivnikar, Sherwin S. Desser

Folia Parasitologica 49[2] 89-92 (2002) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2002.017  

In a study of the oligochaete fauna and their actinosporean parasites in three lakes in Algonquin Park, Canada, a novel form of raabeia-type actinosporean was observed in a single specimen of Uncinais uncinata (∅ersted) (Naididae). This form differs from those previously described in its small size, and by having caudal processes that gradually widen and terminate with a single prominent branch.

Spirorchid and serpulid polychaetes are candidates as invertebrate hosts for Myxozoa

Marianne Køie

Folia Parasitologica 49[2] 160-162 (2002) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2002.028  

Obseravtions on the occurrence and maturation of Spinitectus inermis (Nematoda: Cystidicolidae) in the Sousa River, Portugal

Aurélia Saraiva, Anabela Pereira, Cristina Cruz

Folia Parasitologica 49[2] 167-168 (2002) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2002.031  

M.J. Costello, C.S. Emblow, R. White (Eds.): European Register of Marine Species. A Check-list of the Marine Species in Europe and a Bibliography of Guides to their Identification.

David František Tietz

Folia Parasitologica 49[3] 182 (2002) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2002.034  

Patrimoines naturels, Vol. 50. Publications Scientifiques du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 2001. ISSN 1281-6213, ISBN 2-85653-538-0, paperback, 463 pp. Price €40.21.

The role of blood vessels and lungs in the dissemination of Naegleria fowleri following intranasal inoculation in mice

Kirby L. Jarolim, Jeffrey K. McCosh, Marsha J. Howard

Folia Parasitologica 49[3] 183-188 (2002) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2002.035  

Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) was induced in mice by intranasal inoculation of Naegleria fowleri (Singh et Das, 1970) to study the role of the blood vessels and lungs in the early and later stages in this disease. Upon culturing blood and lung tissue obtained at 24-, 36-, 48-, 72-, 96-, and 120-hour time periods, it was found that amoebae grew only from blood and lung tissue obtained at the 96 and 120 hour time periods. Paraffin sections of the head revealed small foci of acute inflammation and amoebae within the olfactory bulb of the central nervous system (CNS) at 24 hours. Amoebae were not observed within blood vessels of the...

Lasiotocus lizae sp. n. (Digenea: Monorchiidae), a new trematode from marine fish in the Taiwan Straits, China

Liu Sheng-fa

Folia Parasitologica 49[3] 218-220 (2002) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2002.039  

Lasiotocus lizae sp. n. (Digenea: Monorchiidae) was collected from the intestine of Liza carinata (Valenciennes) (Mugilidae, Perciformes) in the Taiwan Straits, China. L. lizae is most similar to Lasiotocus glebulentus Overstreet, 1971 from the intestine of Mugil cephalus from the Northern Gulf of Mexico in having tightly compacted vitellaria, a genital pore sinistral to the midline, the ovary usually dextral to the acetabulum, the similar sucker ratio, and in the presence of both a canalicular and uterine seminal receptacle. It differs from L. glebulentus in its cirrus sac ending anterior to rather than posterior...

Leptin and leptin receptors during malaria infection in mice

Magdalena Pulido-Mendez, Juan De Sanctis, Alexis Rodríguez-Acosta

Folia Parasitologica 49[4] 249-251 (2002) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2002.046  

Leptin, which is involved in a range of physiological processes, could be an important factor in the pathogenesis of malaria. We found that levels of leptin in serum and urine in Plasmodium berghei-infected mice increased progressively after infection, reaching a maximum value on day 6 post-infection. Serum values were approximately five-fold higher in infected mice than in non-infected controls. A similar relation was found for values of leptin in urine. Soluble leptin receptor levels also increased significantly in serum, more or less in line with the leptin increase. Our work represents the first report of visibly augmented leptin and soluble...

Observations on the phylogeny of Opisthadena Linton, 1910 and related genera (Hemiuridae: Opisthadeninae) from Australian and French Polynesian waters

Rodney A. Bray, Thomas H. Cribb

Folia Parasitologica 49[4] 279-290 (2002) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2002.052  

Mitrostoma nototheniae Manter, 1954 is redescribed from Aplodactylus arctidens Richardson, off northern Tasmania. Opisthadena dimidia Linton, 1910 is reported from Kyphosus bigibbus Lacepède, Ningaloo, Western Australia, K. cinerascens (Forsskål), off Heron Island and Ningaloo, Western Australia, Kyphosus cornelii (Whitley), off Kalbarri, Western Australia, K. sydneyanus Günther, off Fremantle, Western Australia, K. sydneyanus ?, Ningaloo, Western Australia and K. vaigiensis (Quoy et Gaimard), off Heron and Lizard Islands, Queensland and Moorea, French Polynesia: measurements...

Ultrastructure of the forebody and foregut tegument and eccrine gland cells of Crepidostomum metoecus (Trematoda: Digenea: Allocreadiidae)

Zdeňka Žďárská, Jana Nebesářová

Folia Parasitologica 49[4] 291-294 (2002) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2002.053  

The forebody and foregut of Crepidostomum metoecus Braun, 1900 are invested with a tegument bearing regularly arranged surface tubercles comparable with the aspidogastrean surface structures. The tegument of the ventrolateral lobes and of the prepharynx is penetrated by ducts of eccrine gland cells. The frontal and prepharyngeal gland cells, localised in the parenchyma, discharge electron-dense granules. Their ducts are lined by peripheral microtubules and fixed to the tegument plasmalemma by a septate junction. The functional roles of these glands are discussed.

50 years of FOLIA PARASITOLOGICA

Tomáš Scholz

Folia Parasitologica 50[1] 1-2 (2003) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2003.001  

D.I. Gibson, A. Jones, R.A. Bray (Eds.): Keys to the Trematoda. Volume I.

Tomáš Scholz, Petr Horák

Folia Parasitologica 50[1] 56 (2003) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2003.010  

CABI Publishing, Wallingford, UK & The Natural History Museum, London, UK, 2002. ISBN 0-85199-547-0, hardback, 521 pp. Price GBP 95.00, USD 175.00.

Co-occurrence of metacestodes of Echinococcus multilocularis and Taenia taeniaeformis (Cestoda) in Arvicola terrestris (Rodentia) in France

Anne-Françoise Pétavy, František Tenora, Stephan Deblock

Folia Parasitologica 50[2] 157-158 (2003) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2003.028  

Myxozoans infecting the sharptooth catfish, Clarias gariepinus in the Okavango River and Delta, Botswana, including descriptions of two new species, Henneguya samochimensis sp. n. and Myxobolus gariepinus sp. n.

Cecilé C. Reed, Linda Basson, Liesl L. Van As

Folia Parasitologica 50[3] 183-189 (2003) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2003.033  

During a recent investigation of parasites infecting fishes from the Okavango River and Delta, Botswana (southern Africa) fourteen sharptooth catfish, Clarias gariepinus (Burchell, 1822) (Siluriformes: Clariidae) were examined for the presence of myxozoan infections. Results revealed the presence of two species of the genus Henneguya Thélohan, 1895 and one species of the genus Myxobolus Bütschli, 1882 infecting this fish host. Two of the sampled fish exhibited large plasmodia of Henneguya suprabranchiae Landsberg, 1987 in the cartilage of the accessory breathing organ, another two individuals were infected with H. samochimensis...

Myxidium biliare sp. n. (Myxozoa) from gall bladder of Galaxias maculatus (Osmeriformes: Galaxiidae) in Patagonia (Argentina)

Gustavo P. Viozzi, Verónica R. Flores

Folia Parasitologica 50[3] 190-194 (2003) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2003.034  

Myxidium biliare sp. n., a new myxosporean species parasitizing the gall bladder of Galaxias maculatus (Jenyns), in Patagonia, is described. Its coelozoic plasmodia were floating free in the bile. Spores are fusiform 13.7 ± 0.9 µm long and 6.9 ± 0.6 µm wide, with rounded ends in frontal view and slightly pointed ends in sutural view; shell with ridges and sinuous sutural line. Both maximum prevalence and maximum percentage of immature plasmodia occurred in summer. In winter the prevalence and the percentage of immature plasmodia fell to their lowest values. Prevalence was independent of host sex but increased...

Ellipsomyxa gobii gen. et sp. n. (Myxozoa: Ceratomyxidae) in the common goby Pomatoschistus microps (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from Denmark

Marianne Køie

Folia Parasitologica 50[4] 269-271 (2003) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2003.045  

A new myxosporean species Ellipsomyxa gobii gen. et sp. n. is described from the common goby Pomatoschistus microps (Krøyer) (Perciformes, Gobiidae). Plasmodia with long branched pseudopodia in the gallbladder develop to subspherical bisporous plasmodia. The myxospores were found in the gallbladder, and the hepatic and bile ducts. The new genus is characterised by the morphology of the myxospores. The myxospores have smooth thin valves elongated in the direction perpendicular to the plane of the straight central transverse indistinct sutural line. The two spherical polar capsules open some distance from the sutural line on opposite...

Echinorhynchus salmonis Müller, 1784 absent in Britain and Ireland: re-identification of museum specimens

James C. Chubb

Folia Parasitologica 51[1] 72-74 (2004) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2004.011  

Collections of 'Echinorhynchus salmonis' from Britain and Ireland deposited in The Natural History Museum, London (1921.7.19.3-12 and 1952.10.30.122-127) were re-identified as Acanthocephalus clavula and Acanthocephalus lucii respectively. The amphipod, Pontoporeia affinis, European intermediate host of E. salmonis, does not occur in the British Isles, so it is concluded that E. salmonis is absent from British and Irish freshwater fishes.

The systematic status of Philometra abdominalis Nybelin, 1928 (Nematoda: Philometridae) [= a junior synonym of P. ovata (Zeder, 1803)]

František Moravec

Folia Parasitologica 51[1] 75-76 (2004) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2004.012  

Examination of the original literature concerning species of Philometra (Philometridae, Dracunculoidea) parasitic in the abdominal cavity of European cyprinids revealed that P. abdominalis Nybelin, 1928 is a junior synonym of P. ovata (Zeder, 1803), a parasite of cyprinids of the genera Gobio, Phoxinus and Leuciscus. The valid name of the species parasitizing cyprinids of the genera Abramis, Rutilus and Vimba, mostly reported erroneously as P. ovata, is P. cyprinirutili (Creplin, 1825) comb. n.

K. Hausmann, N. Hülsmann, R. Radek: Protistology.

Jiří Lom

Folia Parasitologica 51[1] 77-78 (2004) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2004.013  

3rd completely revised edition. E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (Nägele u. Obermiller), Berlin, Stuttgart, 2003. ISBN 3-510-65208-8, hardback, 379 pp. Price EUR 64.00.

A.A. Guglielmone, A. Estrada-Peña, J.E. Keirans, R.G. Robbins: Ticks (Acari: Ixodida) of the Neotropical Zoogeographic Region.

František Dusbábek

Folia Parasitologica 51[4] 375 (2004)  

A special publication sponsored by International Consortium on Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases (ICTTD-2). Atalanta, Houten, The Netherlands, 2003. ISBN 987-43-6828-4, hardbound, 173 pp. Price not given.

Morphology and aspects of growth of a trypanosome transmitted by the marine leech Johanssonia arctica (Piscicolidae) from Northern Norway

Egil Karlsbakk, Eli Haugen, Are Nylund

Folia Parasitologica 52[3] 209-215 (2005) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2005.028  

The fish leech Johanssonia arctica (Johansson, 1898) was collected from king crabs Paralithodes camtschaticus (Tilesius, 1815) in Finnmark, N Norway, and allowed to feed on experimental fish hosts in the laboratory. This leech ingested blood from laboratory-reared cod (Gadus morhua) and halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus). Some experimental halibut acquired trypanosome infection, with parasitaemia between ca. 500 and 60,000 trypanosomes ml-1. The trypanosomes were of variable size and measured 39-90 µm (mean 57 µm) ca. 81 days post-infection. Characteristic features are cell striation, refractile cytoplasmic...

Data on the morphology of Viguiera dicrurusi Gupta, 1960 (Nematoda: Habronematidae) with notes on related forms

Anadi P. Nandi

Folia Parasitologica 52[3] 261-266 (2005) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2005.034  

Morphology of the nematode Viguiera dicrurusi Gupta, 1960 harboured by Dicrurus macrocercus albirictus (Hodgson) (Passseriformes: Dicruridae) from Baruipara in 24-Pargonas (South) district, West Bengal, India was studied by light and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). This represents the first study of V. dicrurusi using SEM. Scanning electron micrographs provided detailed information about the nature of pseudolabial plates, number and shape of teeth, dentate nature of striae, and the relative position of vulva, anus and phasmid opening in female. A detailed morphometrical comparison of this species with Viguiera viduae...

Prevalence of Hemolivia mauritanica (Apicomplexa: Adeleina: Haemogregarinidae) in natural populations of tortoises of the genus Testudo in the east Mediterranean region

Pavel Široký, Martin Kamler, David Modrý

Folia Parasitologica 52[4] 359-361 (2005) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2005.049  

Hemolivia mauritanica (Sergent et Sergent, 1904) infections were found in 14% (n = 14) of Testudo graeca Linnaeus, 1758 tortoises in Bulgaria and in 92% (n = 26) of those in Turkey. Hemolivia mauritanica-like gametocytes were found in 81% (n = 47) of wild Testudo marginata Schoepff, 1792 tortoises in Greece. Parasitaemia intensity (the percentage of infected red blood cells found in approximately 10⁴ cells) was 0.03-22.4% in T. graeca and 0.06-12.27% in T. marginata. On the other hand, all blood samples from 40 Bulgarian, 38 Greek, and 18 Croatian specimens of Testudo hermanni Gmelin, 1789...

M.L. Sood: Nematode Parasites of Birds (Including Poultry) from South Asia.

František Moravec

Folia Parasitologica 53[1] 76 (2006) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2006.009  

International Book Distributing Co., Lucknow (India) 2006. ISBN 81-8189-015-9, hardback, 824 pp., 495 figs. Price: US$ 100.00.

Revision and phylogeny of Rhamnocercinae Monaco, Wood et Mizelle, 1954 (Monogenoidea: Diplectanidae)

Marcus V. Domingues, Walter A. Boeger

Folia Parasitologica 53[2] 107-116 (2006) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2006.014  

Species of Rhamnocercinae Monaco, Wood et Mizelle, 1954 are gill parasites of sciaenid fishes (Perciformes). Seven are marine species (three in the western Atlantic and four in oriental Pacific) and one is a neotropical freshwater species (Rio Doce Basin, Brazil). While the status of the subfamily may be questioned, this assemblage of species is apparently supported by several shared apomorphic and plesiomorphic characters, such as: (1) peduncular spines with anterior and posterior roots; (2) haptor laterally expanded, armed with anchors (two pairs); bars (one ventral, two dorsal); 14 hooks and haptoral accessory spines; and (3) double (nested) tubes...

Pseudodelphis limnicola sp. n. (Dracunculoidea: Guyanemidae) from the heart of Percichthys trucha (Perciformes: Percichthyidae) in Patagonian Andean lakes (Argentina)

Norma Brugni, Gustavo Viozzi

Folia Parasitologica 53[2] 134-138 (2006) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2006.017  

During a survey of parasites of Percichthys trucha (Cuvier et Valenciennes) (Perciformes: Percichthyidae) in northwestern Patagonian lakes, a new dracunculoid of the family Guyanemidae was found parasitizing as adults the heart of the fish. This species belongs to the genus Pseudodelphis Adamson et Roth, 1990 by having deirids, glandular multinucleate oesophagus and anterior branch of the uterus, and by lacking caudal alae and a gubernaculum. Pseudodelphis limnicola sp. n. differs from Pseudodelphis oligocotti Adamson et Roth, 1990 by the number and distribution of the cephalic papillae, a muscular oesophagus submerged into...