| an elisa for the detection of pentastomid infections in the rat. | a specific enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, based on a 48 kda metallo-proteinase isolated from the frontal glands of a porocephalid pentastomid (porocephalus crotali) in rat intermediate hosts, is described. sds-page analysis of whole nymphal homogenate, followed by western blotting and probing with immune rat serum, revealed that only 2 protein bands label consistently; these are the 48 kda metallo-proteinase and a 150 kda metallo-proteinase from the body fluid, but only the former labels str ... | 1991 | 1780170 |
| linguatula serrata (pentastomida) parasitizing humans and animals in egypt, neighbouring countres, and elsewhere: a review. | | 1972 | 4575989 |
| incidence of linguatula serrata infection in cairo mongrel dogs. | | 1970 | 5463356 |
| hepatic granuloma due to a nymph of linguatula serrata in a woman from michigan: a case report and review of the literature. | there have been seven cases of human infection by nymphs of linguatula serrata reported from the united states. only three of these, however, are proven to be autochthonous. we report a rare case of hepatic granuloma due to a nymph of l. serrata in a woman from michigan. she had never left the continental united states. | 1984 | 6364856 |
| an aid to clinical diagnosis of tongue worms (linguatula serrata) in dogs. | over a 10-year period, approximately 18,500 fecal specimens and 500 nasal swabs from random-source dogs in the mid-western united states were examined. seven cases of tongue worm infection, linguatula serrata, were diagnosed by fecal examination, two of which were reconfirmed by positive nasal swabs and recovery of tongue worms from the nasal turbinates at necropsy. gross and histopathologic examination of turbinates in the vicinity of the worms revealed no evidence of tissue damage which could ... | 1981 | 7253555 |