Summary: Phoma minutispora was repeatedly isolated from skin lesions of two patients. Experimental infection was developed on rabbits and scrapings revealed fungal filaments and ostiolate pycnidia similar to those of P. minutispora. This is the first reported association of P. minutispora with human skin lesions.
Zusammenfassung: Phoma minutispora wurde wiederholt aus Hautläsionen bei zwei Patienten isoliert. Kaninchenhaut ließ sich experimentell infizieren. Der Erreger wurde aus den Krankheitserscheinungen rückisoliert. Dieses ist der erste Bericht über eine Beziehung zwischen Phoma minutispora und Hautveränderungen beim Menschen.
The population characteristics of the louse, Upupicola upupae (Shrank) (Mallophaga: Philopteridae: Ishnocera), infesting the Common Hoopae, Upupa epops L. (Aves: Upupiformes), were recorded during 2007–08 in District Rampur, Uttar Pradesh India. The pattern of frequency distribution of the louse conformed to the negative binomial model. The lice and its nits were reared in vitro at 35 ± 1° C, 75–82 % RH, on a feather diet. The data obtained was used to construct the life table and to determine the intrinsic rate of natural increase (0.035 female/day), the net reproductive rate was 3.67 female eggs/female, the generation time was 37 days, and the doubling time of the population was 19 days. The chaetotaxy of the three nymphal instars has also been noted to record their diagnostic characteristics. Information on egg morphology and antennal sensilla is also presented.
Very little attention has been paid towards the role of Mallophaga in reservoiring and transmitting infectious agents amongst their hosts. A survey of literature reveals that two haematophagous mallophagans infesting poultry birds can act as vectors of pathogens causing cholera, typhoid or even toxoplasmosis amongst their hosts. Their ability to reservoire Ornithosis bedsoniae and to transmit viruses of eastern equine encephalomyelitis has also been proved. Few other non haematophagous Mallophaga infesting swifts, dogs and swans are able to act as an intermediate host for filarial worms and one other infesting dogs is reported to act as vector of a cestode. On the other hand, some mallophagan species harbour rickettsia and bacteria and are reported to exhibit endosymbiosis or commensalism. Most of the species, noted for bacterial endosymbiosis are haematophagous. In the present article an attempt has been made to discuss the earlier work done on the pathogenecity and endosymbiosis of Mallophaga, so as to expose the scope of further work on this problem.
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Beziehung von Mallophagen zu Vogel‐ und Säugerpathogenen
Bisher ist noch sehr wenig über die Rolle von Mallophagen als Reservoir und Überträger von Infektionskrankheiten ihrer Wirte bekannt. Eine Literaturübersicht zeigt, daß zwei bei Geflügel vorkommende Mallophagen als Vektor bei Cholera‐, Typhus‐ und Toxoplasmose‐Erreger fungieren können. Ihre Fähigkeit als Reservoir der Ornithosis bedsoniae zu dienen sowie zur Übertragung des Virus der östlichen Pferde‐Enzephalomyelitis ist ebenfalls erwiesen. Einige andere hämatophage Mallophagen, die auf Tauben, Hunde und Schwäne leben, können Zwischenwirte von Fadenwürmern, in einem Falle auch Vektor eines Bandwurms sein. Andererseits beherbergen einige mallophage Arten Rickettsien und Bakterien als Endosymbionten oder Kommensalen. Die meisten Arten mit bakteriellen Endosymbionten sind blutfressend. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird versucht, die bisherigen Erkenntnisse über die Pathogenität und Endosymbiose von Mallophagen auszuwerten, um damit eine Grundlage für künftige Arbeiten auf diesem Gebiet zu schaffen.
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