| a new species of paragonimus (trematoda: troglotrematidae) from a cat infected with metacercariae from mountain crabs larnaudia larnaudii. | the identification of paragonimus spp. lung flukes is based on the morphology of both the metacercaria and the adult. a very small paragonimus sp. metacercaria was found in a freshwater crab caught in kanchanaburi province, west thailand, an area where metacercariae of paragonimus heterotremus had not been found. the metacercariae cysts were 180-204 microm in diameter, which was smaller than metacercariae of p. heterotremus. the coefficient of difference in body size between this metacercaria an ... | 2007 | 18314698 |
| molecular phylogenetic relationship of paragonimus pseudoheterotremus. | a part of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit i (coi) gene and the nuclear ribosomal dna second internal transcribed spacer 2 (its2) of a newly described lung fluke, paragonimus pseudoheterotremus, were sequenced and compared with p. heterotremus, the species with a similar morphology. pairwise distance of coi sequences revealed a genetic difference between p. heterotremus and p pseudoheterotremus with a nucleotide difference of coi sequences between these two species of 10.6%. the co ... | 2008 | 18564705 |
| molecular and immunological characterization of cathepsin l-like cysteine protease of paragonimus pseudoheterotremus. | cathepsin l is a cysteine protease belonging to the papain family. in parasitic trematodes, cathepsin l plays essential roles in parasite survival and host-parasite interactions. in this study, cathepsin l of the lung fluke paragonimus pseudoheterotremus (ppscatl) was identified and its molecular biological and immunological features characterized. a sequence analysis of ppscatl showed that the gene encodes a 325-amino-acid protein that is most similar to p. westermani cathepsin l. the in silico ... | 2016 | 27562899 |
| molecular variation in the paragonimus heterotremus complex in thailand and myanmar. | paragonimiasis is an important food-borne parasitic zoonosis caused by infection with lung flukes of the genus paragonimus. of the 7 members of the genus known in thailand until recently, only p. heterotremus has been confirmed as causing human disease. an 8th species, p. pseudoheterotremus, has recently been proposed from thailand, and has been found in humans. molecular data place this species as a sister species to p. heterotremus, and it is likely that p. pseudoheterotremus is not specifical ... | 2013 | 24516273 |
| metacercarial polymorphism and genetic variation of paragonimus heterotremus (digenea: paragonimidae), and a re-appraisal of the taxonomic status of paragonimus pseudoheterotremus. | paragonimus heterotremus, which is an important pathogen for human paragonimiasis in asia, is recognized as having the smallest metacercariae (maximum diameter < 300 μm) of any previously reported paragonimus species. recently, p. pseudoheterotremus has been described from thailand as a new species having metacercariae (about 200 μm) slightly smaller than those of thai p. heterotremus. in fact, the small size of p. pseudoheterotremus metacercariae is compatible with those of p. heterotremus from ... | 2015 | 24229574 |
| molecular identification of a case of paragonimus pseudoheterotremus infection in thailand. | paragonimiasis is an important food-borne parasitic zoonosis caused by infection with lung flukes of the genus paragonimus. in southeast asia, paragonimus heterotremus is the only proven causative pathogen. recently, a new paragonimus species, p. pseudoheterotremus, was found in thailand. this species is genetically similar to p. heterotremus and is considered as a sister species. however, infectivity or pathogenicity of p. pseudoheterotremus to humans remains unclear. we report the first confir ... | 2012 | 22826489 |