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  1. Schistosomiasis is endemic in 54 countries, but has one of the lowest coverages by mass drug administration of all helminth diseases. However, with increasing drug availability through donation, the World Heal...

    Authors: RM Anderson, HC Turner, SH Farrell, Jie Yang and JE Truscott
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:553
  2. It is the aim of the World Health Organisation to eliminate soil-transmitted helminths (STH) as a health problem in children. To this end, the goal is to increase anthelmintic treatment coverage for soil trans...

    Authors: JE Truscott, HC Turner and RM Anderson
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:551
  3. With ambitious targets to eliminate lymphatic filariasis over the coming years, there is a need to identify optimal strategies to achieve them in areas with different baseline prevalence and stages of control....

    Authors: M. A. Irvine, L. J. Reimer, S. M. Njenga, S. Gunawardena, L. Kelly-Hope, M. Bockarie and T. D. Hollingsworth
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:547
  4. Globally, hookworms infect 440 million people in developing countries. Especially children and women of childbearing age are at risk of developing anaemia as a result of infection. To control hookworm infectio...

    Authors: Luc E. Coffeng, Roel Bakker, Antonio Montresor and Sake J. de Vlas
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:541
  5. The role of mass drug administration (MDA) and the implementation of transmission reduction measures are essential to successfully control and eliminate a wide range of NTDs, including the ocular disease trach...

    Authors: Manoj Gambhir and Amy Pinsent
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:530
  6. Mathematical models of parasite transmission can help integrate a large body of information into a consistent framework, which can then be used for gaining mechanistic insights and making predictions. However,...

    Authors: Brajendra K. Singh and Edwin Michael
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:522
  7. Visceral leishmaniasis has been targeted for elimination as a public health problem (less than 1 case per 10,000 people per year) in the Indian sub-continent by 2017. However, there is still a high degree of u...

    Authors: Lloyd A C Chapman, Louise Dyson, Orin Courtenay, Rajib Chowdhury, Caryn Bern, Graham F. Medley and T. Deirdre Hollingsworth
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:521
  8. The neurotropic parasite T. gondii is widespread among mammalian hosts including humans. During the course of T. gondii infection, the central nervous system is the most commonly damaged of all invasive organs. T...

    Authors: Lijuan Wan, Lingli Gong, Wei Wang, Ran An, Meijuan Zheng, Zongru Jiang, Yuewen Tang, Yihua Zhang, He Chen, Li Yu, Jilong Shen and Jian Du
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:554
  9. Tick-borne relapsing fevers of humans are caused by spirochetes that must adapt to both warm-blooded vertebrates and cold-blooded ticks. In western North America, most human cases of relapsing fever are caused...

    Authors: Benjamin J. Krajacich, Job E. Lopez, Sandra J. Raffel and Tom G. Schwan
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:546
  10. Most parasites co-occur with other parasites, although the importance of such multiparasitism has only recently been recognised. Co-infections may result when hosts are independently infected by different para...

    Authors: Elise Vaumourin, Gwenaël Vourc’h, Patrick Gasqui and Muriel Vayssier-Taussat
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:545
  11. Human schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease of great importance that remains highly prevalent in Yemen, especially amongst rural communities. In order to investigate the genetic diversity of human Schis...

    Authors: Hany Sady, Hesham M. Al-Mekhlafi, Bonnie L. Webster, Romano Ngui, Wahib M. Atroosh, Ahmed K. Al-Delaimy, Nabil A. Nasr, Kek Heng Chua, Yvonne A. L. Lim and Johari Surin
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:544
  12. Babesia orientalis is an obligate intraerythrocytic protozoan parasite of the buffalo (Bubalus bubalis, Linnaeus, 1758) transmitted by the tick Rhipicephalus heamaphysaloides. It is th...

    Authors: Yuan Huang, Lan He, Jinfang Hu, Pei He, Junwei He, Long Yu, Ngabu Malobi, Yanqin Zhou, Bang Shen and JunLong Zhao
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:543
  13. Accacoelium contortum (Rudolphi, 1819) Monticelli, 1893 is a frequent but poorly known trematode found on gills, pharynx and digestive tract of the ocean sunfish Mola mola (L.). Althou...

    Authors: Ana Elena Ahuir-Baraja, Francesc Padrós, Jose Francisco Palacios-Abella, Juan Antonio Raga and Francisco Esteban Montero
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:540
  14. Candidatus Neoehrlichia came under the focus of recent research in terms of human and pet relevance. Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis seems to be relatively abundant in animals and h...

    Authors: Adnan Hodžić, Rita Cézanne, Georg Gerhard Duscher, Josef Harl, Walter Glawischnig and Hans-Peter Fuehrer
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:539
  15. Ticks are important vectors of emerging zoonotic diseases affecting human and animal health worldwide. Ticks are often found on wild birds, which have been long recognized as a potential risk factor for dissem...

    Authors: José de la Fuente, Agustín Estrada-Peña, Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz and Ricardo Brey
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:538
  16. Livestock trypanosomoses, caused by three species of the Trypanozoon subgenus, Trypanosoma brucei brucei, T. evansi and T. equiperdum is widely distributed throughout the world and constitutes an important limita...

    Authors: E. Sánchez, T. Perrone, G. Recchimuzzi, I. Cardozo, N. Biteau, PM Aso, A. Mijares, T. Baltz, D. Berthier, L. Balzano-Nogueira and MI Gonzatti
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:536

    The Erratum to this article has been published in Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:566

  17. During blood meal, the female mosquito injects saliva able to elicit an immune response in the vertebrate. This immune response has been proven to reflect the intensity of exposure to mosquito bites and risk o...

    Authors: Berlin Londono-Renteria, Papa M. Drame, Thomas Weitzel, Reinaldo Rosas, Crystal Gripping, Jenny C. Cardenas, Marcela Alvares, Dawn M Wesson, Anne Poinsignon, Franck Remoue and Tonya M. Colpitts
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:533
  18. A blinded, controlled laboratory study was conducted to assess the repellency and acaricidal activity of a topical spot on formulation, a combination of fipronil and permethrin, against Ixodes ricinus and Rhipice...

    Authors: Pascal Dumont, Julian Liebenberg, Frederic Beugnet and Becky Fankhauser
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:531
  19. The Bafia sleeping sickness focus of Cameroon is considered as “silent” with no case reported for about 20 years despite medical surveys performed during the last decades. In this focus, all epidemiological fa...

    Authors: Gustave Simo, Pierre Fongho, Oumarou Farikou, Prosper Innocent Ndjeuto Ndjeuto-Tchouli, Judith Tchouomene-Labou, Flobert Njiokou and Tazoacha Asonganyi
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:528
  20. The parasite Leishmania panamensis is the main cause of leishmaniasis in Panama. The disease is largely uncontrolled, with a rising incidence and no appropriate control measures. While microsatellites are conside...

    Authors: Carlos M. Restrepo, Alejandro Llanes, Carolina De La Guardia and Ricardo Lleonart
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:527
  21. Enterocytozoon bieneusi is the most common pathogen of 14 microsporidian species infecting humans worldwide. In China, E. bieneusi has been reported in some common livestock and enviro...

    Authors: Weishi Liu, Chunyu Nie, Longxian Zhang, Rongjun Wang, Aiqin Liu, Wei Zhao and Heping Li
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:526
  22. The argasid tick Ornithodoros erraticus is the vector of African swine fever virus and of several Borrelia species that cause human relapsing fever in the Iberian Peninsula. The tick midgut is part of the ectopar...

    Authors: Ana Oleaga, Prosper Obolo-Mvoulouga, Raúl Manzano-Román and Ricardo Pérez-Sánchez
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:525
  23. Cutaneous leishmaniasis is a disease transmitted by sand fly bites. This disease is highly prevalent in Syria where Leishmania major and Leishmania tropica are the known aetiological agents. In 2011, more than 58...

    Authors: Nabil Haddad, Hanadi Saliba, Atef Altawil, Jeffrey Villinsky and Samar Al-Nahhas
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:524
  24. The frequency of canine heartworm infection in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil was high before chemoprophylactic treatment was available, with one of the highest rates of infection (52.5 %) found among dog...

    Authors: Norma Vollmer Labarthe, Liliane Maria Valentim Willi, Jonimar Pereira Paiva, Marcia Gonçalves Nobre de Miranda, Karen Zoreck and Flavya Mendes de Almeida
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:523
  25. Mosquito-borne flaviviruses are a major public health threat in many countries worldwide. In Central Europe, West Nile virus (WNV) and Usutu virus (USUV), both belonging to the Japanese encephalitis virus group (

    Authors: Ivo Rudolf, Tamás Bakonyi, Oldřich Šebesta, Jan Mendel, Juraj Peško, Lenka Betášová, Hana Blažejová, Kristýna Venclíková, Petra Straková, Norbert Nowotny and Zdenek Hubálek
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:520
  26. Authors: B. L. Webster, M. Rabone, T. Pennance, A. M. Emery, F. Allan, A. Gouvras, S. Knopp, A. Garba, A. A. Hamidou, K. A. Mohammed, S. M. Ame, D. Rollinson and J. P. Webster
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:519

    The original article was published in Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:432

  27. Babesiosis is an important haemoparasitic disease, caused by the infection and subsequent intra-erythrocytic multiplication of protozoa of the genus Babesia that impacts the livestock industry and animal health. ...

    Authors: Qingli Niu, Zhijie Liu, Peifa Yu, Jifei Yang, Mirza Omar Abdallah, Guiquan Guan, Guangyuan Liu, Jianxun Luo and Hong Yin
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:518
  28. Eastern equine encephalomyelitis virus (EEEV) causes a highly pathogenic zoonosis that circulates in an enzootic cycle involving the ornithophagic mosquito, Culiseta melanura, and wild passerine birds in freshwat...

    Authors: Goudarz Molaei, Philip M. Armstrong, Alan C. Graham, Laura D. Kramer and Theodore G. Andreadis
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:516
  29. Elimination of onchocerciasis in Africa is now regarded as an achievable goal in many areas. This makes monitoring changes in infection prevalence a key component of control programmes. Monitoring is currently...

    Authors: K. Awadzi, Nicholas O. Opoku, Simon K. Attah, Janis K. Lazdins-Helds and Annette C. Kuesel
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:515
  30. Red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) are one of the most widespread wild carnivores in the world, being recognized to harbor and transmit a wide range of vector-borne diseases. Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Borrelia burgdor...

    Authors: Mirabela Oana Dumitrache, Ioana Adriana Matei, Angela Monica Ionică, Zsuzsa Kalmár, Gianluca D’Amico, Sándor Sikó-Barabási, Dan Traian Ionescu, Călin Mircea Gherman and Andrei Daniel Mihalca
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:514
  31. Schistosomiasis is considered second only to malaria as the most devastating parasitic disease in tropical countries. Schistosome cercariae invade the host by penetrating the skin and migrate though the lungs ...

    Authors: Ji Liu, Tong Pan, Xu You, Yiyue Xu, Jinyi Liang, Yanin Limpanont, Xi Sun, Kamolnetr Okanurak, Huanqin Zheng, Zhongdao Wu and Zhiyue Lv
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:513
  32. Limited information is available about the species of ticks infesting the cat and the pathogens that they harbor. The aims of the present study were to identify the species of ticks removed from cats living in...

    Authors: Maria-Grazia Pennisi, Maria-Flaminia Persichetti, Lorena Serrano, Laura Altet, Stefano Reale, Laura Gulotta and Laia Solano-Gallego
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:512
  33. Dengue, transmitted primarily by the bites of infected Aedes aegypti L., is transmitted to millions of individuals each year in tropical and subtropical areas. Dengue control strategies are primarily based on con...

    Authors: Tatiane Sanches Soares, Ricardo José Soares Torquato, Yamile Gonzalez Gonzalez, Francisco Jose Alves Lemos and Aparecida Sadae Tanaka
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:511
  34. Trypanosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease caused by the trypanosome parasite and transmitted by the tsetse fly vector. In Sub-saharan Africa, both the human and animal variants of the disease are a great...

    Authors: Juan P. Ruiz, Hamisi S. Nyingilili, Geofrey H. Mbata and Imna I. Malele
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:510
  35. Although sentinel animals are used successfully throughout the world to monitor arbovirus activity, ethical considerations and cross-reactions in serological assays highlight the importance of developing viabl...

    Authors: Brian J. Johnson, Tim Kerlin, Sonja Hall-Mendelin, Andrew F. van den Hurk, Giles Cortis, Stephen L. Doggett, Cheryl Toi, Ken Fall, Jamie L. McMahon, Michael Townsend and Scott A. Ritchie
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:509
  36. Fluralaner is a novel systemic ectoparasiticide for dogs providing immediate and persistent flea, tick and mite control after a single oral dose. Ivermectin has been used in dogs for heartworm prevention and a...

    Authors: Feli M. Walther, Mark J. Allan and Rainer KA Roepke
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:508
  37. The Ehrlichia are obligate intracellular Gram-negative tick-borne bacteria that are important human and animal pathogens. There is a need for assays to rapidly and reliably detect and differentiate the five gener...

    Authors: Jilei Zhang, Patrick Kelly, Weina Guo, Chuanling Xu, Lanjing Wei, Frans Jongejan, Amanda Loftis and Chengming Wang
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:506
  38. Behavior rhythms of insect vectors directly interfere with the dynamics of pathogen transmission to humans. The sand fly Lutzomyia longipalpis is the main vector of visceral leishmaniasis in America and concentra...

    Authors: João Silveira Moledo Gesto, Gustavo Bueno da Silva Rivas, Marcio Galvão Pavan, Antonio Carlos Alves Meireles-Filho, Paulo Roberto de Amoretty, Nataly Araújo de Souza, Rafaela Vieira Bruno and Alexandre Afranio Peixoto
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:505
  39. Amblyomma variegatum and A. hebraeum are two ticks of veterinary and human health importance in south-east Africa. In Zimbabwe they occupy parapatric (marginally overlapping and juxtap...

    Authors: L. Bournez, N. Cangi, R. Lancelot, D.R.J Pleydell, F. Stachurski, J. Bouyer, D. Martinez, T. Lefrançois, L. Neves and J. Pradel
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:504
  40. Zanthoxylum heitzii bark extracts have insecticidal properties and have been reported to be used against malaria in Western Africa. Previously, it has been shown that a hexane extract ...

    Authors: Nastaran Moussavi, Karl Egil Malterud, Bertin Mikolo, Dag Dawes, Fabrice Chandre, Vincent Corbel, Daniel Massamba, Hans J. Overgaard and Helle Wangensteen
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:503
  41. Cyclophilin A (CyPA), a ubiquitously distributed intracellular protein, is thought to be one of the important inflammatory factors and plays a significant role in the development process of sepsis. In the form...

    Authors: Tianzhang Song, Mei Yang, Jintao Chen, Lilin Huang, Hongling Yin, Tailong He, Huaiqiu Huang and Xuchu Hu
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:502
  42. Although many vector-borne agents are potential zoonoses and cause substantial morbidity and mortality in dogs worldwide, there are limited data on these organisms in dogs of China.

    Authors: Da Xu, Jilei Zhang, Zhengsheng Shi, Chunlian Song, Xiaofeng Zheng, Yi Zhang, Yongqing Hao, Haiju Dong, Lanjing Wei, Heba S. El-Mahallawy, Patrick Kelly, Wenbin Xiong, Heng Wang, Jianji Li, Xinjun Zhang, Jianhong Gu…
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:501
  43. There is a need for an integrated genotyping approach for C. parvum; no sufficiently discriminatory scheme to date has been fully validated or widely adopted by veterinary or public health researchers. Multilocus...

    Authors: Emily J. Hotchkiss, Janice A. Gilray, Marnie L. Brennan, Robert M. Christley, Liam J. Morrison, Nicholas N. Jonsson, Elizabeth A. Innes and Frank Katzer
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:500
  44. The Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis recommends the transmission assessment survey (TAS) as the preferred methodology for determining whether mass drug administration can be stopped in an end...

    Authors: Rita M. Dewi, Sekar Tuti, Sitti Ganefa, Chairiyah Anwar, Ria Larasati, Endah Ariyanti, Herty Herjati and Molly Brady
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:499
  45. Toxoplasma gondii is a widely prevalent intracellular parasite which infects almost all warm-blooded animals including humans and causes serious zoonotic toxoplasmosis. DNA vaccines ha...

    Authors: Huiquan Yin, Lingxiao Zhao, Ting Wang, Huaiyu Zhou, Shenyi He and Hua Cong
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:498
  46. Infections with Babesia bovis, Babesia bigemina, Theileria species and Anaplasma marginale are endemic in Kenya yet there is a lack of adequate information on their genotypes. This study established the genetic d...

    Authors: Paul Franck Adjou Moumouni, Gabriel Oluga Aboge, Mohamad Alaa Terkawi, Tatsunori Masatani, Shinuo Cao, Ketsarin Kamyingkird, Charoonluk Jirapattharasate, Mo Zhou, Guanbo Wang, Mingming Liu, Aiko Iguchi, Patrick Vudriko, Adrian Patalinghug Ybanez, Hisashi Inokuma, Rika Shirafuji-Umemiya, Hiroshi Suzuki…
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:496

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