Abdul Jabbar

Molecular detection of Strongyloides sp. in Australian Thoroughbred foals

Ghazanfar Abbas, Abdul Ghafar, Anson Koehler, Jenni Bauquier, Edwina JA Wilkes, Caroline Jacobson, Anne Beasley, John Hurley, Lucy Cudmore, Peter Carrigan, Brett Tennent-Brown, Charles El-Hage, Martin K Nielsen, Charles G Gauci, Kristopher J Hughes, Ian Beveridge, Abdul Jabbar

Journal article  |  2021  |  PARASITES & VECTORS

BACKGROUND: Strongyloides westeri is found in the small intestine of young horses, mainly in foals up to about 16 weeks of age. Th..

High-Throughput Phenotypic Assay to Screen for Anthelmintic Activity on Haemonchus contortus

Aya C Taki, Joseph J Byrne, Tao Wang, Brad E Sleebs, Nghi Nguyen, Ross S Hall, Pasi K Korhonen, Bill CH Chang, Paul Jackson, Abdul Jabbar, Robin B Gasser

Journal article  |  2021  |  PHARMACEUTICALS

Parasitic worms cause very significant diseases in animals and humans worldwide, and their control is critical to enhance health, ..

Practical High-Throughput Method to Screen Compounds for Anthelmintic Activity against Caenorhabditis elegans

Aya C Taki, Joseph J Byrne, Peter R Boag, Abdul Jabbar, Robin B Gasser

Journal article  |  2021  |  MOLECULES

In the present study, we established a practical and cost-effective high throughput screening assay, which relies on the measureme..

Three Small Molecule Entities (MPK18, MPK334 and YAK308) with Activity against Haemonchus contortus In Vitro

Aya C Taki, Abdul Jabbar, Thomas Kurz, Beate Lungerich, Guangxu Ma, Joseph J Byrne, Marc Pflieger, Yodita Asfaha, Fabian Fischer, Bill CH Chang, Brad E Sleebs, Robin B Gasser

Journal article  |  2021  |  MOLECULES

Due to widespread multi-drug resistance in parasitic nematodes of livestock animals, there is an urgent need to discover new anthe..

Descriptive Comparison of ELISAs for the Detection of Toxoplasma gondii Antibodies in Animals: A Systematic Review

KLD Tharaka D Liyanage, Anke Wiethoelter, Jasmin Hufschmid, Abdul Jabbar

Journal article  |  2021  |  PATHOGENS

Toxoplasma gondii is the zoonotic parasite responsible for toxoplasmosis in warm-blooded vertebrates. This systematic review compa..

Shared Odds of Borrelia and Rabies Virus Exposure in Serbia

Pavle Banovic, Adrian Alberto Diaz-Sanchez, Dragana Mijatovic, Dragana Vujin, Zsolt Horvath, Nenad Vranjes, Zorana Budakov-Obradovic, Nevenka Bujandric, Jasmina Grujic, Abdul Ghafar, Abdul Jabbar, Verica Simin, Dasiel Obregon, Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz

Journal article  |  2021  |  PATHOGENS

Lyme borreliosis (LB) is the most common tick-borne disease in Serbia and other European countries. Rabies is a fatal zoonosis dis..

1-Methyl-1H-pyrazole-5-carboxamide Derivatives Exhibit Unexpected Acute Mammalian Toxicity

Sarah Preston, Jose Garcia-Bustos, Liam G Hall, Sheree D Martin, Thuy G Le, Abhijit Kundu, Atanu Ghoshal, Nghi H Nguyen, Yaqing Jiao, Banfeng Ruan, Lian Xue, Fei Huang, Bill CH Chang, Sean L McGee, Timothy NC Wells, Michael J Palmer, Abdul Jabbar, Robin B Gasser, Jonathan B Baell

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY

A series of 1-methyl-1H-pyrazole-5-carboxamides were synthesized as potent inhibitors of the parasitic nematode of sheep, Haemonch..

Advances in the discovery and development of anthelmintics by harnessing natural product scaffolds.

HMP Dilrukshi Herath, Aya C Taki, Brad E Sleebs, Andreas Hofmann, Nghi Nguyen, Sarah Preston, Rohan A Davis, Abdul Jabbar, Robin B Gasser

Journal article  |  2021  |  Adv Parasitol

Widespread resistance to currently-used anthelmintics represents a major obstacle to controlling parasitic nematodes of livestock ..

Comparative studies on faecal egg counting techniques used for the detection of gastrointestinal parasites of equines: A systematic review

Abdul Ghafar, Ghazanfar Abbas, Justine King, Caroline Jacobson, Kristopher J Hughes, Charles El-Hage, Anne Beasley, Jenni Bauquier, Edwina JA Wilkes, John Hurley, Lucy Cudmore, Peter Carrigan, Brett Tennent-Brown, Martin K Nielsen, Charles G Gauci, Ian Beveridge, Abdul Jabbar

Journal article  |  2021  |  Current Research in Parasitology & Vector-Borne Diseases

Faecal egg counting techniques (FECT) form the cornerstone for the detection of gastrointestinal parasites in equines. For this pu..

Phylogenetic Relationships within the Nematode Subfamily Phascolostrongylinae (Nematoda: Strongyloidea) from Australian Macropodid and Vombatid Marsupials.

Tanapan Sukee, Ian Beveridge, Ahmad Jawad Sabir, Abdul Jabbar

Journal article  |  2021  |  Microorganisms

The strongyloid nematode subfamily Phascolostrongylinae comprises parasites of the large intestine and stomach of Australian macro..