• How many species of whipworms do we share? Whipworms from man and other primates form two phylogenetic lineages 

      Doležalová, Jana; Oborník, Miroslav; Hajdušková, Eva; Jirků, Milan; Petrželková, Klára J.; Bolechová, Petra; Cutillas, Cristina; Callejón, Rocio; Jaroš, Jozef; Beránková, Zuzana; Modrý, David (Akademie věd ČR, 2015)
      The whipworms, i.e. parasitic nematodes of the genus Trichuris Roederer, 1761, infect a variety of mammals. Apparently low diversity of primate-infecting species of Trichuris strongly contrasts with the high number of ...
    • Wild chimpanzees are infected by Trypanosoma brucei 

      Jirků, Milan; Votýpka, Jan; Petrželková, Klára J.; Jirků-Pomajbíková, Kateřina; Kriegová, Eva; Vodička, Roman; Lankester, Felix; Leendertz, Siv Aina J.; Wittig, Roman M.; Boesch, Christophe; Modrý, David; Ayala, Francisco J.; Leendertz, Fabian H.; Lukeš, Julius (Elsevier Science BV, 2015)
      sickness, very little is known about their trypanosome infections, mainly due to major difficulties in obtaining their blood samples. In present work, we established a diagnostic ITS1-based PCR assay that allows detection ...