| an interesting case of eosinophilic meningitis. | angiostrongylus cantonensis is one of the causative agents of eosinophilic meningitis. humans get infected when they ingest raw or partially cooked snails or monitor lizards (varanus bengalensis). there is a popular belief that the tongue and the liver of the monitor lizard has aphrodisiac properties. a 20-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with a history of fever, headache and vomiting. his cerebrospinal fluid revealed eosinophilia. he gave a history of the ingestion of a monitor lizard, ... | 2013 | 23730662 |
| the use of fish and herptiles in traditional folk therapies in three districts of chenab riverine area in punjab, pakistan. | like botanical taxa, various species of animals are also used in traditional and modern health care systems. present study was intended with the aim to document the traditional uses of herptile and fish species among the local communities in the vicinity of the river chenab, punjab pakistan. | 2020 | 32580733 |
| online selling of wildlife part with spurious name: a serious challenge for wildlife crime enforcement. | we examined an online sold product "hatha jodi" synonym of "paired arm" for the confirmation of its biological source. it was declared as a plant root. the morphological features of these samples were matched with the "intromittent organs" or "hemi penis" of the monitor lizard. for further confirmation, we used sequencing of a partial fragment of mitochondrial dna cytochrome b gene. sequence comparison indicated that these claimed plant products were actually biological samples of a common monit ... | 2019 | 29460109 |
| eosinophilic meningitis caused by consumption of meat of monitor lizard (varanus bengalensis). | | 2019 | 30038112 |
| a case of an incidental strongyloides stercoralis infection in the intestine of an indian monitor lizard (varanus bengalensis). | the present study reports a case of an incidental strongyloides stercoralis infection in the intestine of an indian monitor lizard (varanus bengalensis). nematode larvae were embedded in the mucosa of the small intestine. the nematodes were small, whitish in colour and measures (2.16 ± 69.85) mm length and (206.75 ± 38.85) µm width. histopathologically, the intestine showed tufting of degenerated surface epithelium. there was presence of sections of the nematodes within the mucosa of the intesti ... | 2018 | 30166798 |
| range extension of the bengal monitor (varanus bengalensis) for the trans-himalayan region with an altitude record for monitor lizards. | the bengal monitor lizard or common indian monitor lizard (varanus bengalensis daudin, 1802) is classified as least concern under the iucn and listed under the schedule-i of the indian wildlife protection act 1972. further, the trade of the species is prohibited as the species is listed in appendix i of cites. it is widely distributed over western asia, the indian subcontinent, and southeast asia (koch et al. 2013). it is reported to occupy both terrestrial as well as freshwater habitats from de ... | 2020 | 32230267 |
| reptile-associated borrelia spp. in amblyomma ticks, thailand. | a total of 127 amblyomma ticks (a. helvolum, a. varanense and a. geoemydae) were collected from reptiles: water monitors (varanus salvator), bengal monitors (varanus bengalensis), burmese pythons (python bivittatus), yellow-spotted keelbacks (xenochrophis flavipunctatus), keeled rat snakes (ptyas carinata) and elongated tortoises (indotestudo elongata) from nine provinces in thailand. the presence of borrelia spp. of the 16s rrna, flab, glpq, groel and gyrb genes was examined by conventional, se ... | 2020 | 31668984 |
| further scanning electron microscope studies of lizard auditory papillae. | the papillae basilares of 12 species of lizards from seven different families were studied by sem. the iguanids, sceloporus magister and s. occidentalis, have typical "iguanid type" papillae with central short-ciliated unidirectional hair cell segments and apical and basal long-ciliated bidirectional hair cell segments. these species of sceloporus are unique among iquanids in that the bidirectional segments consist of but two rows of hair cells. the agamids, agama agama and calotes nigrolabius, ... | 1978 | 671555 |
| effect of propranolol on ecg of myna, acridotheres tristis, and goh, varanus bengalensis. | effect of propranolol (1 and 3 mg/kg body wt), a sympathetic blocking agent, on ecg patterns was studied in varanus and acridotheres. ecg was recorded before and after 5 min (immediate), 15 min and in some cases 25 min of drug infusion. all animals responded to propranolol with bradycardia. the effectiveness is dose dependent and it is also associated with the high heart rate both in acridotheres and in varanus. the p-r or p-s interval increased in all cases of varanus after infusion. in acridot ... | 1991 | 1889829 |
| severe form of radiculo - myelo - neuropathy with meningo - encephalitis secondary to angiostrongylus cantonensis infection: unusual corpus callosal lesions and serial magnetic resonance imaging findings. | a 43-year-old man presented with the symptoms of recurrent lower abdominal pain, malaise and loss of appetite of 3-week duration, followed by acute onset of generalized paresthesias, fever and headache which progressed over few days to quadriparesis, altered sensorium, urinary and fecal incontinence. he had consumed raw tongue, liver, gall bladder and testicles of monitor lizard (varanus bengalensis). blood picture showed eosinophilia and cerebrospinal fluid (csf) analysis revealed elevated prot ... | 2013 | 24005735 |
| occurrence of the infective stage of angiostrongylus cantonensis in the yellow tree monitor (varanus bengalensis) in five provinces of thailand. | twenty-two yellow tree monitors (varanus bengalensis) were trapped and transported from 5 provinces, namely lampang, phitsanulok, kamphaeng phet, tak and prachin buri to look for the infective larvae stage of angiostrongylus cantonensis. in 4 provinces all of the yellow tree monitors were infected with the infective stage larvae of a. cantonensis altogether. twenty-one of the 22 yellow tree monitors (95.5%) in the five provinces were infected. our results of this study extend our knowledge of na ... | 1994 | 7777915 |
| experimental infection of yellow tree monitor (varanus bengalensis) and related species with angiostrongylus cantonensis. | | 1992 | 1523474 |
| on a new species of artyfechinostomum lane, 1915, from the intestine of the monitor lizard, varanus bengalensis in hyderabad-india. | | 1964 | 14174781 |
| auditory responses from the medulla of the monitor lizard varanus bengalensis. | | 1976 | 1247889 |
| a functional interpretation of the varanid dentition (reptilia, lacertilia, varanidae). | a cinéradiographic analysis of the feeding movements in varanus bengalensis produced the following results. the mouth is opened by raising the head (upper jaw) rather than by lowering the lower jaw. starting from the resting position, the muzzle unit is elevated around 9 degrees relative to the rest of the skull during jaw opening; the quadrate swings anteriorly around 21 degrees. during jaw closure, the snout is depressed around 15 degrees relative to the rest of the skull, hence 6 degrees beyo ... | 1979 | 551934 |
| [an anatomical study of the teeth of varanus bengalensis]. | | 1986 | 3458103 |
| [an anatomical study of the tongue of varanus bengalensis]. | | 1986 | 3461411 |
| monitor lizard bite-induced acute kidney injury--a case report. | envenomations by venomous lizards are rare. monitor lizard bite-induced acute kidney injury (aki) is a previously unreported complication in humans. a 55-year-old female was bitten on her right leg during farming activity by a monitor lizard (varanus bengalensis). the patient experienced severe local pain and bleeding from the wound, coagulopathy, hemolysis, rhabdomyolysis, sepsis, and aki. patient was treated with supportive care and peritoneal dialysis but succumbed to a sudden cardiac arrest. ... | 2014 | 24341640 |