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ArticlePathogens (Basel, Switzerland)2020

Myrrh Oil

Mahmoud AbouLaila, Shimaa Abd El-Salam El-Sayed, Mosaab A Omar, Mohammad Saleh Al-Aboody, Amer R Abdel Aziz, Mohamed M Abdel-Daim, Mohamed Abdo Rizk, Ikuo Igarashi

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Article in Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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10 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 7 institutions in 3 countries.

Mahmoud AbouLailaNational Research Center for Protozoan Diseases, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Inada-Cho, Obihiro, Hokkaido 080-8555, Japan.
Shimaa Abd El-Salam El-SayedNational Research Center for Protozoan Diseases, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Inada-Cho, Obihiro, Hokkaido 080-8555, Japan.
Mosaab A OmarDepartment of Veterinary Medicine, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Qassim University, Buraydah, 51452 Qassim, Saudi Arabia.
Mohammad Saleh Al-AboodyDepartment of Biology, College of Science in Zulfi, Majmaah University, Majmaah 11952, Saudi Arabia.
Amer R Abdel AzizDepartment of Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Sohag University, Sohag 82524, Egypt.
Mohamed M Abdel-DaimDepartment of Zoology, College of Science, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2455, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.
Mohamed Abdo RizkNational Research Center for Protozoan Diseases, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Inada-Cho, Obihiro, Hokkaido 080-8555, Japan.
Ikuo IgarashiNational Research Center for Protozoan Diseases, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Inada-Cho, Obihiro, Hokkaido 080-8555, Japan.
Mansoura University · EGDamanhour University · EGMajmaah University · SAObihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine · JPQassim University · SASohag University · EGSuez Canal University · EG

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The present experimental study was conducted for the assessment of the efficacy of in vitro inhibition of myrrh oil on the propagation of Babesia bovis, B. divergens, B. bigemina, Theileria equi, and B. caballi and in vivo efficacy on B. microti in mice through fluorescence assay based on SYBR green I. The culture of B. divergens B. bovis and was used to evaluate the in vitro possible interaction between myrrh oil and other commercial compound, such as pyronaridine tetraphosphate (PYR), diminazene aceturate (DA), or luteolin. Nested-polymerase chain reaction protocol using primers of the small-subunit rRNA of B. microti was employed to detect any remnants of DNA for studied parasitic species either in blood or tissues. Results elucidated that; Myrrh oil significantly inhibit the growth at 1% of parasitic blood level for all bovine and equine piroplasm under the study. Parasitic regrowth was inhibited subsequently by viability test at 2 µg/mL for B. bigemina and B. bovis, and there was a significant improvement in the in vitro growth inhibition by myrrh oil when combined with DA, PYR, and luteolin. At the same time; mice treated with a combination of myrrh oil/DA showed a higher inhibition in emitted fluorescence signals than the group that challenged with 25 mg/kg of diminazene aceturate at 10 and 12 days post-infection. In conclusion, this study has recommended the myrrh oil to treat animal piroplasmosis, especially in combination with low doses of DA.

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Babesiain vitroin vivoMyrrh oilT. equi

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