| australian ecosystems, capricious food chains and parasitic consequences for people. | characteristic australian ecosystems or environments contain numerous food chains some of which may become capriciously side-tracked or appropriated by humans, with parasitic consequences for people in australia and overseas. twelve of 13 arboviruses affecting humans are of wildlife origin and all are transmitted by mosquitoes. in this case, transmission is thus associated with aquatic environments, many artificial. zoonotic trematode (brachylaimiasis) and cestode (rodentoleposis) infections hav ... | 2005 | 15925595 |
| more parasitic myositis cases in humans in australia, and the definition of genetic markers for the causative agents as a basis for molecular diagnosis. | since 1998, there have been six reported human cases of myositis in australia, attributable to infection with the nematode haycocknema perplexum. however, an unequivocal diagnosis of h. perplexum infection and associated disease has been seriously compromised by a lack of molecular markers for this nematode. here, we report new cases of disseminated myositis in two male patients from the states of queensland and tasmania in australia, respectively; genetically characterize the causative agent fr ... | 2016 | 27312103 |
| a further patient with parasitic myositis due to haycocknema perplexum, a rare entity. | a new genus of nematode, haycocknema perplexum, causing polymyositis in humans, was first described in two australian patients from tasmania in 1998. three patients with myositis due to the same nematode were reported from northern queensland in 2008. we report the sixth case from australia, a 50-year-old man, also from tasmania. he had a 2-year history of progressive weakness, weight loss of 10 kg and dysphagia. muscle biopsy was initially interpreted as polymyositis with eosinophils. maximum c ... | 2013 | 23664131 |