EXPERIMENTAL PARASITOLOGY Volume 110, Number 4, August 2005 CONTENTS Regular Articles Makoto Owhashi, Jun Matsumoto, Atsuko Imase, Masashi Kirinoki, Viroj Kitikoon, Yuichi Chigusa, Hajime Matsuda. Schistosoma mekongi: A prominent neutrophil chemotactic activity of egg antigen with reference to that of Schistosoma japonicum ................................................................................... 335 Alireza Talebi, Grace Mulcahy. Partial protection against Eimeria acervulina and Eimeria tenella in- duced by synthetic peptide vaccine .......................................................................................................... 342 Daniela S. Moreira, Gutemberg M. Rocha. Toxocara canis: Impact of preweaning nutritional deprivation on the pathogenesis of pneumonia in the mouse .................................................................................... 349 G. Simo, S. Herder, F. Njiokou, T. Asonganyi, A. Tilley, G. Cuny. Trypanosoma brucei s.l.: Character- isation of stocks from Central Africa by PCR analysis of mobile genetic elements ............................. 353 Milena Salgado, Julio C. Villago ´mez-Castro, Rocı ´o Rocha-Rodrı ´guez, Myrna Sabanero-Lo ´pez, Marco A. Ramos, Alejandro Alago ´n, Everardo Lo ´pez-Romero, Rosana Sa ´ nchez-Lo ´pez. Entamoeba histolytica: Biochemical and molecular insights into the activities within microsomal fractions .......................... 363 Ana M. Espino, Antonio Osuna, Ramo ´n Gil, George V. Hillyer. Fasciola hepatica: Humoral and cytokine responses to a member of the saposin-like protein family following delivery as a DNA vaccine in mice ............................................................................................................................................................ 374 S. Vijay Kumar, Sarita Ranjan, Vishal Saxena, Vidya Rajesh, S.K. Roy, Dhanpat Kochar, Akash Ranjan, Ashis Das. Plasmodium falciparum: Genetic diversity of C-terminal region of MSP-1 in isolates from Indian sub-continent ................................................................................................................................. 384 Karl B. Seydel, Deepak Gaur, L. Aravind, G. Subramanian, Louis H. Miller. Plasmodium falciparum: Characterization of a late asexual stage Golgi protein containing both ankyrin and DHHC do- mains ......................................................................................................................................................... 389 Elsa Seixas, Dominique Ostler. Plasmodium chabaudi chabaudi (AS): Differential cellular responses to infection in resistant and susceptible mice ............................................................................................. 394 Research Briefs Masashi Okamura, Naoaki Yokoyama, Nilanthi P.A.L.K. Wickramathilaka, Noriyuki Takabatake, Yuzuru Ikehara, Ikuo Igarashi. Babesia caballi and Babesia equi: Implications of host sialic acids in erythrocyte infection ................................................................................................................................. 406 Ca ´ris Maroni Nunes, Ana Karina Kerche Dias, Francisca Elda Ferreira Dias, Se ´rgio Moraes Aoki, Henrique Borges de Paula, Luis Gustavo Ferraz Lima, Jose ´ Fernando Garcia. Taenia saginata: Differential diagnosis of human taeniasis by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism assay.................................................................................................................................. 412 Author Index for Volume 110 ......................................................................................................................... 416 Cover photo. The biosynthesis of nucleotide-activated sugar donors and dolichol-linked oligosaccharide based on S. cerevisiae pathways. (See Milena Salgado et al., pages 363–373, in this issue.)