Better Peroxidase Improves Disease Diagnosis
... to help diagnose a myriad of viral, bacterial and parasitic diseases, including AIDS and malaria. Standard kits lose effectiveness in about four months without refrigeration, according to industry sources. Vierling's preliminary research suggests that kits made with soybean peroxidase should last unrefrigerat...Two Parasitic Wasps Show Promise For Controlling Pest Flies
...ots. After threeyears of study, they say that two parasitic wasps known as Spalangiaendius and Spalangia nigoraenea are especially important inthe Midwest and actually could emerge as weapons. Such is the finding of a study of parasites that feed on stable and houseflies in Illinois. Both types of flie...Study At UNC-CH Shows Chlorinated Water Dramatically Cuts Strawberry Contamination
...eaves have causedoutbreaks of food-borne viral and parasitic diseases such as gastroenteritis andinfectious hepatitis, he said. Last spring, for example, contaminatedstrawberries, distributed through U.S. Department of Agriculture-sponsoredschool lunch programs, caused an outbreak of infectious hepatitis A tha...UF Researcher's Innovative Fence Helps Control Sand Flies
...said. "So we're notkilling butterflies, fireflies, parasitic wasps or beetles or anythingother than sand flies." UF and Air Liquide, an international company that produces carbon dioxidegas, have patented the trap. Source: Jonathan Day, 561-778-7200...High Carbon Dioxide Levels May Be Killing Insects
... or were eaten from the insideout by the larvae of parasitic wasps. Stiling conducted the experiment at theKennedy Space Center in Florida in 16 open-topped chambers containing myrtle oakand sand-live oak. Half of the chambers had normal CO2 levels, while the otherhalf had approximately double the normal level......inhibitors can be safely used inanimals to treat a parasitic infection, the researchers said. The study, published in the August 17 issue of the Journal of ExperimentalMedicine, reports on the treatment of 21 mice infected with lethal doses of T.cruzi. All of the treated mice were rescued from the infection. ...Virginia Tech Scientist Seek Genetic Solution To Malaria
BLACKSBURG, Va., Oct. 30, 1998 -- Malaria, a parasitic diseasetransmitted by mosquitoes to humans and animals, has made such a dramaticre-emergence in many areas of the world that the last five years has seen thegrowth of global interest in finding novel strategies to control the disease. Somewhe...Veterinary Researchers Identify Accomplice Of Calf-Killing Parasite
...major breakthrough in the understanding of a major parasitic disease ofcattle. Working in the college's...nitive host" for Neospora caninum, a single-celled parasitic organism whichcauses pregnant cows to abort their fetuses. While the dog was suspected to b...Vasta To Address Diseases Of Marine Environment At AAAS Meeting
...een decimated along theAtlantic and Gulf coasts by parasitic diseases, seriously affecting the oysterindustry. In the Chesapeake Bay, mass mortalities due to protozoan infectionssuch as "Dermo" (Perkinsus marinus) and MSX (Haplosporidium nelsoni) haveseverely reduced existing oyster populations and have affec...Researcher Awarded Patent For System To Fight Multiple Diseases
... marketed to combat any bacterial, viral, fungalor parasitic disease using Curtiss' concept. Curtiss developed the system while on the faculty of UAB in the late1970s and early 1980s and at Washington University since 1983.The patent covers composition, manufacture and use of live attenuated, orweaken......date, which Sessions first putforth in 1987: small parasitic flatworms called Riberoria trematodes.These creatures burrow into the hindquarters of tadpoles where they physicallyrearrange the limb bud cells and thereby interfere with limb development. "It's about as close to using an egg beater on the limb bu......ntists to uncover the mechanisms of infectious and parasitic diseasesand identify "Microbial, viral and parasitic diseases are global health problems,"said Purnell W. Choppin, HHMI's president. "Hundreds of million...Nematode makes scientific history
...s thought to have many ofthe "same" genes as plant parasitic nematodes. Scientists who worked on the C.elegans genome project claim that 40% of the nematode genes are essentially thesame as in humans. "This revelation bodes well for plant nematologists studying'parasitism-related' genes in much closer relativ...Caterpillars foiled when tomato plants summon parasitic wasps
... recent study of tomato plants, beet armyworms and parasitic wasps, JenniferThaler, a UC Davis postdoctoral fel...lling in the beet armyworm's natural enemy, a tiny parasitic wasp. The chemical resistance response in a plant is technically known as the"octadecanoid pathway,"...A few gut parasites could do you the world of good
...six sufferers eggs that hatched and developed into parasitic worms. The resultswere so dramatic that they are planning a larger trial this autumn. "Between thesecond and third week after treatment, five of the six patients went intocomplete remission," says Weinstock. A single dose of worms eased symptoms fora...Invasion of alien parasite halted; California coast cleared of African worm in abalone
... (For the squeamish, it should be noted that this parasitic worm does notinvade the abalone meat, and has never been a health threat. Instead, it managesto embed itself in the developing shell of the abalone, getting the growingabalone to seal it off into its own tiny fluted home near the opening of theshell ...Asthma-linked genes discovered at Berkeley lab
... Evolutionarily IL4 andIL13 are thought to prevent parasitic infection by generating localizedinflammation. In addition to his research group at Berkeley Lab, Rubin also leads thefunctional genomics program at DOE's Joint Genome Institute (JGI), acollaborative effort between Berkeley Lab and the Lawrence Live......atest obstacles to food production in Africa, the parasitic Striga, described as "a pretty flower but a deadly weed," thrives in areas of poor soil and infests two thirds of land devoted to cereal crops. "The losses can be as high as 70% among subsistence farmers," says Dr. Watson. The weed compensates f...International trade imperils U.S. plants, animals and crops
..., like the Russian wheat aphid, that attack crops; parasitic plants like witch weed, which now affect corn farmers; or weeds, such as thistles, that invade cropland. Alien weeds like spotted knapweed, star thistle and cheat grass reduce the quality of rangeland for grazing cattle, while fungi and insects plagu...Researchers identify suspect organism in feline infectious anemia
... is a gram-negative, disease-causing intracellular parasitic bacterium whose transmission has been linked to fleas, ticks, mice and lice. Mycoplasma organisms are tough, evasive bacteria that lack a cell wall. They are the smallest free-living cells known to exist, and their vector is uncertain, though belie...