Fifty years of drug discovery from fungi

AH Aly, A Debbab, P Proksch - Fungal Diversity, 2011 - Springer
For the past 50 years, fungal secondary metabolites have revolutionized medicine yielding
blockbuster drugs and drug leads of enormous therapeutic and agricultural potential. Since …

Haemonchosis in Sheep and Goats, Control Strategies and Development of Vaccines against Haemonchus contortus

I Adduci, F Sajovitz, B Hinney, K Lichtmannsperger… - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Haemonchus contortus is the most pathogenic blood-feeding parasitic
nematode in sheep and goats, threatening animal welfare and causing tremendous …

Soil-transmitted helminth vaccines: are we getting closer?

A Zawawi, KJ Else - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Parasitic helminths infect over one-fourth of the human population resulting in significant
morbidity, and in some cases, death in endemic countries. Despite mass drug administration …

Advances with the Chinese anthelminthic drug tribendimidine in clinical trials and laboratory investigations

SH Xiao, J Utzinger, M Tanner, J Keiser, J Xue - Acta tropica, 2013 - Elsevier
The anthelminthic drug tribendimidine has been approved by Chinese authorities for human
use in 2004, and a first comprehensive review was published in Acta Tropica in 2005. Here …

Comparative analysis of microRNA profiles between adult Ascaris lumbricoides and Ascaris suum

CC Shao, MJ Xu, S Alasaad, HQ Song, L Peng… - BMC veterinary …, 2014 - Springer
Abstract Background The parasitic nematodes Ascaris lumbricoides and A. suum are of
great public health and economic significance, and the two taxa were proposed to represent …

[PDF][PDF] Ascaris lumbricoides: epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, and control

K Al-Tameemi, R Kabakli - Asian J Pharm Clin Res, 2020 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
Although Ascaris lumbricoides is a common intestinal parasite of humans with worldwide
distribution causing ascariasis, Ascaris is a neglected disease and still is a burden in …

[HTML][HTML] The first report on the prevalence of soil-transmitted helminth infections and associated risk factors among traditional pig farmers in Bali Province, Indonesia

KK Agustina, IMA Wirawan, IM Sudarmaja… - Veterinary …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Materials and Methods: This study involved the fecal examination of 238 traditional pig
farmers from all areas of Bali Province in Indonesia. In addition, several pig feces samples …

Infectious helminth ova in wastewater and sludge: a review on public health issues and current quantification practices

P Gyawali - Water Science and Technology, 2018 - iwaponline.com
Raw and partially treated wastewater has been widely used to maintain the global water
demand. Presence of viable helminth ova and larvae in the wastewater raised significant …

Ascaris lumbricoides β carbonic anhydrase: a potential target enzyme for treatment of ascariasis

R Zolfaghari Emameh, M Kuuslahti, D Vullo… - Parasites & …, 2015 - Springer
Background A parasitic roundworm, Ascaris lumbricoides, is the causative agent of
ascariasis, with approximately 760 million cases around the world. Helminthic infections …

Seasonal Prevalence of Gastrointestinal Parasites in Macaques (Macaca thibetana) at Mount Emei Scenic Area in China

J Yang, SK Okyere, J Zheng, B Cao, Y Hu - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Gastrointestinal parasites may affect the health of macaques directly or
indirectly, thereby exposing primates to conservational risks. Gastrointestinal parasites …