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Hudson Alves Pinto - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Fishborne Zoonotic Trematodes Transmitted by Melanoides tuberculata Snails, Peru
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2018Co-Authors: Eduardo A. Pulido-murillo, Luis Fernando Viana Furtado, Élida Mara Leite Rabelo, Alan Lane De Melo, Hudson Alves PintoAbstract:We investigated the transmission of the fishborne trematodes Centrocestus formosanus and Haplorchis pumilio by Melanoides tuberculata snails in Peru. We report on results of experimental, morphological, and molecular approaches and discuss the potential risk for future human cases, given the existence of food habits in the country involving the ingestion of raw fish.
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Melanoides tuberculata (Mollusca: Thiaridae) Harboring Renicolid Cercariae (Trematoda: Renicolidae) In Brazil
The Journal of parasitology, 2012Co-Authors: Hudson Alves Pinto, Alan Lane De MeloAbstract:Abstract: Melanoides tuberculata, naturally infected by gymnocephalous cercariae, were found in aquatic collections from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. After morphological characterization, larvae were used for experimental infection of Poecilia reticulata. Metacercariae were obtained from the liver of these fish, which were also found to be naturally infected in the same locality. The morphology and biology of the developmental stages of trematodes we obtained were characteristic of Renicola sp. This is the first record of renicolid cercariae and metacercariae in Brazil.
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Melanoides tuberculata mollusca thiaridae as an intermediate host of centrocestus formosanus trematoda heterophyidae in brazil
Revista Do Instituto De Medicina Tropical De Sao Paulo, 2010Co-Authors: Hudson Alves Pinto, Alan Lane De MeloAbstract:Pleurolophocercous cercariae emerged from naturally infected Melanoides tuberculata from Minas Gerais State, Brazil, were used to perform experimental infection of laboratory-reared Poecilia reticulata. Mature metacercariae were obtained from the gills of fishes and force-fed to Mus musculus. The adult parasites which recovered from small intestines of mice were identified as Centrocestus formosanus. This is the first report of M. tuberculata as intermediate host of this heterophyid in Brazil.
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Melanoides tuberculata as intermediate host of Philophthalmus gralli in Brazil
Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo, 2010Co-Authors: Hudson Alves Pinto, Alan Lane De MeloAbstract:Melanoides tuberculata that naturally harbored trematode larvae were collected at the Pampulha dam, Belo Horizonte (Minas Gerais, Brazil), during malacological surveys conducted from 2006 to 2010. From 7,164 specimens of M. tuberculata collected, 25 (0.35%) were infected by cercariae, which have been morphologically characterized as belonging to the Megalurous group, genus Philophthalmus. Excysted metacercariae were used for successful experimental infection of Gallus gallus domesticus, and adult parasites recovered from the nictitating membranes of chickens were identified as Philophthalmus gralli. This is the first report of P. gralli in M. tuberculata in Brazil.
Eduardo A. Pulido-murillo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Fishborne Zoonotic Trematodes Transmitted by Melanoides tuberculata Snails, Peru
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2018Co-Authors: Eduardo A. Pulido-murillo, Luis Fernando Viana Furtado, Élida Mara Leite Rabelo, Alan Lane De Melo, Hudson Alves PintoAbstract:We investigated the transmission of the fishborne trematodes Centrocestus formosanus and Haplorchis pumilio by Melanoides tuberculata snails in Peru. We report on results of experimental, morphological, and molecular approaches and discuss the potential risk for future human cases, given the existence of food habits in the country involving the ingestion of raw fish.
Cláudia Portes Santos - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Does the trematode Centrocestus formosanus affect the locomotory activity of the mollusc Melanoides tuberculatus
Parasites & vectors, 2013Co-Authors: Everton Gustavo Nunes Dos Santos, Viviane Da Silva Costa, Cláudia Portes SantosAbstract:Background Melanoides tuberculatus (Muller, 1774) (Thiaridae), an introduced gastropod mollusc with a wide geographical distribution in the Neotropics, is the intermediate host of the trematode Centrocestus formosanus (Nishigori, 1924) (Heterophyidae). This parasite is considered to be pathogenic to humans. The aim of the present work was to evaluate the locomotory activity of uninfected M. tuberculatus compared with those naturally infected with C. formosanus.
Alan Lane De Melo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Fishborne Zoonotic Trematodes Transmitted by Melanoides tuberculata Snails, Peru
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2018Co-Authors: Eduardo A. Pulido-murillo, Luis Fernando Viana Furtado, Élida Mara Leite Rabelo, Alan Lane De Melo, Hudson Alves PintoAbstract:We investigated the transmission of the fishborne trematodes Centrocestus formosanus and Haplorchis pumilio by Melanoides tuberculata snails in Peru. We report on results of experimental, morphological, and molecular approaches and discuss the potential risk for future human cases, given the existence of food habits in the country involving the ingestion of raw fish.
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Melanoides tuberculata (Mollusca: Thiaridae) Harboring Renicolid Cercariae (Trematoda: Renicolidae) In Brazil
The Journal of parasitology, 2012Co-Authors: Hudson Alves Pinto, Alan Lane De MeloAbstract:Abstract: Melanoides tuberculata, naturally infected by gymnocephalous cercariae, were found in aquatic collections from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. After morphological characterization, larvae were used for experimental infection of Poecilia reticulata. Metacercariae were obtained from the liver of these fish, which were also found to be naturally infected in the same locality. The morphology and biology of the developmental stages of trematodes we obtained were characteristic of Renicola sp. This is the first record of renicolid cercariae and metacercariae in Brazil.
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Melanoides tuberculata mollusca thiaridae as an intermediate host of centrocestus formosanus trematoda heterophyidae in brazil
Revista Do Instituto De Medicina Tropical De Sao Paulo, 2010Co-Authors: Hudson Alves Pinto, Alan Lane De MeloAbstract:Pleurolophocercous cercariae emerged from naturally infected Melanoides tuberculata from Minas Gerais State, Brazil, were used to perform experimental infection of laboratory-reared Poecilia reticulata. Mature metacercariae were obtained from the gills of fishes and force-fed to Mus musculus. The adult parasites which recovered from small intestines of mice were identified as Centrocestus formosanus. This is the first report of M. tuberculata as intermediate host of this heterophyid in Brazil.
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Melanoides tuberculata as intermediate host of Philophthalmus gralli in Brazil
Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo, 2010Co-Authors: Hudson Alves Pinto, Alan Lane De MeloAbstract:Melanoides tuberculata that naturally harbored trematode larvae were collected at the Pampulha dam, Belo Horizonte (Minas Gerais, Brazil), during malacological surveys conducted from 2006 to 2010. From 7,164 specimens of M. tuberculata collected, 25 (0.35%) were infected by cercariae, which have been morphologically characterized as belonging to the Megalurous group, genus Philophthalmus. Excysted metacercariae were used for successful experimental infection of Gallus gallus domesticus, and adult parasites recovered from the nictitating membranes of chickens were identified as Philophthalmus gralli. This is the first report of P. gralli in M. tuberculata in Brazil.
Philippe Jarne - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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VARIATION OF SHELL SHAPE IN THE CLONAL SNAIL Melanoides TUBERCULATA AND ITS CONSEQUENCES FOR THE INTERPRETATION OF FOSSIL SERIES
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution, 2000Co-Authors: Sarah Samadi, Patrice David, Philippe JarneAbstract:Abstract Interpreting paleontological data is difficult because the genetic nature of observed morphological variation is generally unknown. Indeed, it is hardly possible to distinguish among several sources of morphological variation including phenotypic plasticity, sexual dimorphism, within-species genetic variation or differences among species. This can be addressed using fossil organisms with recent representatives. The freshwater snail Melanoides tuberculata ranks in this category. A fossil series of this and other species have been studied in the Turkana Basin (Kenya) and is presented as one of the best examples illustrating the punctuated pattern of evolution by the tenants of this theory. Melanoides tuberculata today occupies most of the tropics. We studied variation of shell shape in natural populations of this parthenogenetic snail using Raup's model of shell coiling. We considered different sources of variation on estimates of three relevant parameters of Raup's model: (1) variation in shell sh...
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Density and variability of dinucleotide microsatellites in the parthenogenetic polyploid snail Melanoides tuberculata
Molecular ecology, 1998Co-Authors: Sarah Samadi, Jean-pierre Pointier, E. Artiguebielle, Arnaud Estoup, J.-f. Silvain, J. Heller, M.-l. Cariou, Philippe JarneAbstract:Characterization of microsatellites in the parthenogenetic polyploid snail Melanoides tuberculata revealed an unusual high density of dinucleotide repeats. Multiple banding patterns were obtained at these loci, and interpreted as a consequence of polyploidy. Microsatellite variability was low within, but high between, shell morphotypes. Genotypes were wholly transmitted from mothers to offspring. These results suggest that reproduction is strictly apomictic, and that shell morphotypes are genetic clones.