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  1. Homology inference helps on identifying similarities, as well as differences among organisms, which provides a better insight on how closely related one might be to another. In addition, comparative genomics p...

    Authors: Nelson Kotowski, Rodrigo Jardim and Alberto M. R. Dávila
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:494
  2. The Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis was launched in 2000 with the goal of interrupting transmission of lymphatic filariasis (LF) through multiple rounds of mass drug administration (MDA). In...

    Authors: Bernard L. Kouassi, Dziedzom K. de Souza, Andre Goepogui, Charles A. Narh, Sandra A. King, Baldé S. Mamadou, Lamia Diakité, Samuel K. Dadzie, Daniel A. Boakye, Jürg Utzinger, Moses J. Bockarie and Benjamin G. Koudou
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:492
  3. Shepherd and stray dogs are thought to represent the primary definitive hosts of Coenurosis by Taenia multiceps, due to their feeding habits which translate into high chances of coming into contact with infected ...

    Authors: Antonio Varcasia, Claudia Tamponi, Gabriele Tosciri, Anna Paola Pipia, Francesco Dore, Rolf Karl Schuster, Omnia Mohamed Kandil, Maria Lucia Manunta and Antonio Scala
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:491
  4. Dermacentor reticulatus plays an important role in the maintenance of pathogens of medical and veterinary importance in the environment. Currently two isolated populations of D. reticu...

    Authors: Ewa J. Mierzejewska, Agnieszka Pawełczyk, Marek Radkowski, Renata Welc-Falęciak and Anna Bajer
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:490
  5. Our group has recently provided a proof-of-principle for the examination of pooled stool samples using McMaster technique as a strategy for the rapid assessment of intensity of soil-transmitted helminth infect...

    Authors: Ashenafi Kure, Zeleke Mekonnen, Daniel Dana, Mitiku Bajiro, Mio Ayana, Jozef Vercruysse and Bruno Levecke
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:489
  6. Many countries have made significant progress in the implementation of World Health Organization recommended preventive chemotherapy strategy, to eliminate lymphatic filariasis (LF). However, pertinent challen...

    Authors: Dziedzom K. de Souza, Rashid Ansumana, Santigie Sessay, Abu Conteh, Benjamin Koudou, Maria P. Rebollo, Joseph Koroma, Daniel A. Boakye and Moses J. Bockarie
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:488
  7. Land-use change has led to a dramatic decrease in total forest cover, contributing to biodiversity loss and changes of ecosystems’ functions. Insect communities of medical importance can be favored by anthropo...

    Authors: Carlos Antonio Abella-Medrano, Sergio Ibáñez-Bernal, Ian MacGregor-Fors and Diego Santiago-Alarcon
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:487
  8. The mosquitoes Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus are vectors of pathogenic viruses that cause major human illnesses including dengue, yellow fever and chikungunya. Both mosquito species are expanding their geogr...

    Authors: Loganathan Ponnusamy, Coby Schal, Dawn M. Wesson, Consuelo Arellano and Charles S. Apperson
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:486
  9. Malaria is a devastating infectious disease caused by Plasmodium parasites transmitted through the bites of infected Anopheles mosquitoes. Salivary glands are the only mosquito tissue invaded by Plasmodium sporoz...

    Authors: Renato Pinheiro-Silva, Lara Borges, Luís Pedro Coelho, Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz, James J. Valdés, Virgílio do Rosário, José de la Fuente and Ana Domingos
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:485
  10. The excretory–secretory (ES) antigens of Trichinella spiralis muscle larvae (ML) are the most commonly used diagnostic antigens for trichinellosis. Their main disadvantage for the detection of anti-Trichinella Ig...

    Authors: Ge-Ge Sun, Zhong-Quan Wang, Chun-Ying Liu, Peng Jiang, Ruo-Dan Liu, Hui Wen, Xin Qi, Li Wang and Jing Cui
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:484
  11. Horses interact with humans in a wide variety of sport competitions and non-competitive recreational pursuits as well as in working activities. Cryptosporidium spp are one of the most important zoonotic pathogens...

    Authors: Aiqin Liu, Jia Zhang, Jingmin Zhao, Wei Zhao, Rongjun Wang and Longxian Zhang
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:483
  12. In Colombia, Rhodnius prolixus and Triatoma dimidiata are the main domestic triatomine species known to transmit T. cruzi. However, there are multiple reports of T. cruzi transmission involving secondary vectors....

    Authors: Omar Cantillo-Barraza, Edilson Garcés, Andrés Gómez-Palacio, Luis A. Cortés, André Pereira, Paula L. Marcet, Ana M. Jansen and Omar Triana-Chávez
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:482
  13. Echinostomes are cosmopolitan digenean parasites which infect many different warm-blooded hosts. Their classification is extremely confused; the host spectrum is wide, and morphological similarities often resu...

    Authors: Joanna Hildebrand, Maja Adamczyk, Zdzisław Laskowski and Grzegorz Zaleśny
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:481
  14. Wildlife can be important sources and reservoirs for pathogens. Trypanosome infections are common in many mammalian species, and are pathogenic in some. Molecular detection tools were used to measure trypanoso...

    Authors: Eze J. Ideozu, Andrew M. Whiteoak, Alexandra J. Tomlinson, Andrew Robertson, Richard J. Delahay and Geoff Hide
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:480
  15. A parasitic roundworm, Ascaris lumbricoides, is the causative agent of ascariasis, with approximately 760 million cases around the world. Helminthic infections occur with a high prevalence mostly in tropical and ...

    Authors: Reza Zolfaghari Emameh, Marianne Kuuslahti, Daniela Vullo, Harlan R. Barker, Claudiu T. Supuran and Seppo Parkkila
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:479
  16. Abiotic conditions provide cues that drive tick questing activity. Defining these cues is critical in predicting biting risk, and in forecasting climate change impacts on tick populations. This is particularly...

    Authors: Milan Daniel, Marek Malý, Vlasta Danielová, Bohumír Kříž and Patricia Nuttall
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:478
  17. In West Africa, tick-borne relapsing fever is a neglected arthropod-borne infection caused by Borrelia crocidurae transmitted by the argasid tick Ornithodoros sonrai. From an epidemiological point of view, it is ...

    Authors: Haitham Elbir, Aurélien FotsoFotso, Georges Diatta, Jean François Trape, Céline Arnathau, François Renaud and Patrick Durand
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:477
  18. Bluetongue virus (BTV) causes non-contagious haemorrhagic disease in ruminants and is transmitted by Culicoides spp. biting midges. BTV encodes four non-structural proteins of which NS3/NS3a is functional in viru...

    Authors: Femke Feenstra, Barbara S. Drolet, Jan Boonstra and Piet A. van Rijn
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:476
  19. Bovine babesiosis and theileriosis is an important hemoprotozoal disease in cattles and yaks in tropical and subtropical regions leading to significant economic losses. In the field, the risk of co-infection b...

    Authors: Zhancheng Tian, Junzheng Du, Jifei Yang, Aihong Liu, Xiaocui Liu, Guangyuan Liu and Hong Yin
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:475
  20. The extensive use of pyrethroids for control of malaria vectors, driven by their cost, efficacy and safety, has led to widespread resistance. To favor their sustainable use, the World Health Organization (WHO)...

    Authors: Mariangela Bonizzoni, Eric Ochomo, William Augustine Dunn, Monica Britton, Yaw Afrane, Guofa Zhou, Joshua Hartsel, Ming-Chieh Lee, Jiabao Xu, Andrew Githeko, Joseph Fass and Guiyun Yan
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:474
  21. Angiostrongylus mackerrasae is a metastrongyloid nematode endemic to Australia, where it infects the native bush rat, Rattus fuscipes. This lungworm has an identical life cycle to that...

    Authors: Mahdis Aghazadeh, Rebecca J. Traub, Namitha Mohandas, Kieran V. Aland, Simon A. Reid, James S. McCarthy and Malcolm K. Jones
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:473
  22. Leishmaniasis is a worldwide but neglected disease of humans and animal transmitted by sand flies, vectors that also transmit other important diseases. Mitochondrial genomes contain abundant information for po...

    Authors: Fei Ye, Ting Liu, Stanley D. King and Ping You
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:472
  23. Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) combination drug is currently being used in India for the treatment of Plasmodium falciparum as partner drug in artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT). Resistance to sulfadoxin...

    Authors: Divya Sharma, Manila Lather, Prashant K. Mallick, Tridibes Adak, Amita S. Dang, Neena Valecha and Om P. Singh
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:471
  24. Given the sympatric occurrence in some regions of Europe and the great epidemiological significance of D. reticulatus and D. marginatus species, we investigated the behaviour of these ticks during inter-specific ...

    Authors: Alicja Buczek, Katarzyna Bartosik, Zbigniew Zając and Michał Stanko
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:470
  25. Given the increase in cases of visceral leishmaniasis in recent years, associated with the socio-economic impact of this disease, as well as the wide distribution of Lutzomyia longipalpis in Brazil and the likeli...

    Authors: Grasielle Caldas DÁvila Pessoa, Josiane Valadão Lopes, Marília Fonseca Rocha, Letícia C. Pinheiro, Aline Cristine Luiz Rosa, Érika Monteiro Michalsky and Edelberto Santos Dias
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:469
  26. Tick borne diseases impinge cattle worldwide causing mortality and resulting in huge economic losses. Theileriosis is one of the important tick borne diseases mainly caused by Theileria annulata and one of the co...

    Authors: Neena George, Vasundhra Bhandari, D. Peddi Reddy and Paresh Sharma
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:468
  27. For the control of Glossina brevipalpis and Glossina austeni that occur in South Africa an area-wide integrated pest management (AW-IPM) program with a sterile insect technique (SIT) component has been proposed. ...

    Authors: Chantel J. de Beer, Gert J. Venter and Marc J. B. Vreysen
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:467
  28. Chagas disease is a parasitic disease caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. In Mexico, the burden of the disease is difficult to estimate and improving surveillance for Chagas disease is an importan...

    Authors: Daniel Guzmán-Gómez, Aracely López-Monteon, María de la Soledad Lagunes-Castro, Carolina Álvarez-Martínez, Manuel Jesús Hernández-Lutzon, Eric Dumonteil and Angel Ramos-Ligonio
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:466
  29. Blastocystis is a common single-celled intestinal parasite of humans and other animals comprising at least 17 genetically distinct small subunit ribosomal RNA lineages (subtypes (STs))...

    Authors: Marawan Abu-Madi, Mahmoud Aly, Jerzy M. Behnke, C. Graham Clark and Hanan Balkhy
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:465
  30. Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an arthritogenic alphavirus (family Togaviridae), transmitted by Aedes species mosquitoes. CHIKV re-emerged in 2004 with multiple outbreaks worldwide and recently reached the Americas...

    Authors: Jelke J. Fros, Corinne Geertsema, Karima Zouache, Jim Baggen, Natalia Domeradzka, Daniël M. van Leeuwen, Jacky Flipse, Just M. Vlak, Anna-Bella Failloux and Gorben P. Pijlman
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:464
  31. West Nile virus (WNV) is a vector-borne disease responsible for causing epidemics in many areas of the world. The virus is maintained in nature by an enzootic bird-mosquito-bird cycle and occasionally transmit...

    Authors: Claudia Fortuna, Maria Elena Remoli, Marco Di Luca, Francesco Severini, Luciano Toma, Eleonora Benedetti, Paola Bucci, Fabrizio Montarsi, Giada Minelli, Daniela Boccolini, Roberto Romi and Maria Grazia Ciufolini
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:463
  32. Understanding mosquito resting behaviour is important for the control of vector-borne diseases, but this remains a challenge because of the paucity of efficient sampling tools. We evaluated two novel sampling ...

    Authors: Katharina S. Kreppel, P. C. D. Johnson, N. J. Govella, M. Pombi, D. Maliti and H. M. Ferguson
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:462
  33. We found Rickettsia raoultii DNA in 2 out of 32 (6.25 %) Haemaphysalis erinacei ticks. Result showed that the sequences of five genes (17-kDa, gltA, ompA, rrs, and ompB) were 100 % identity with that of R. Raoult...

    Authors: Li-Ping Guo, Lu-Meng Mu, Jun Xu, Su-Hua Jiang, An-Dong Wang, Chuang-Fu Chen, Gang Guo, Wan-Jiang Zhang and Yuan-Zhi Wang
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:461
  34. Pathogen manipulation of host behavior can greatly impact vector-borne disease transmission, but almost no attention has been paid to how it affects disease surveillance. Bluetongue virus (BTV), transmitted by Cu...

    Authors: Emily G. McDermott, Christie E. Mayo, Alec C. Gerry, Damien Laudier, N. James MacLachlan and Bradley A. Mullens
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:460
  35. Hemozoin is the pigment produced by some blood-feeding parasites. It demonstrates high diagnostic and therapeutic potential. In this work the formation of co-called hemozoin “knobs” – the bile duct ectasia fil...

    Authors: Alexandra G. Pershina, Irina V. Saltykova, Vladimir V. Ivanov, Ekaterina A. Perina, Alexander M. Demin, Oleg B. Shevelev, Irina I. Buzueva, Anton K. Gutakovskii, Sergey V. Vtorushin, Ilya N. Ganebnykh, Victor P. Krasnov, Alexey E. Sazonov and Ludmila M. Ogorodova
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:459
  36. A universal coverage campaign (UCC) with long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) was implemented in four districts in Midwestern Uganda in 2009–2010. Entomological surveys were carried out to monitor changes in...

    Authors: MEH Helinski, A. Nuwa, N. Protopopoff, M. Feldman, P. Ojuka, DW Oguttu, TA Abeku and S. Meek
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:458
  37. Phylogeographical studies allow precise genetic comparison of specimens, which were collected over large geographical ranges and belong to the same or closely related animal species. These methods have also be...

    Authors: Sándor Hornok, Agustín Estrada-Peña, Jenő Kontschán, Olivier Plantard, Bernd Kunz, Andrei D. Mihalca, Adora Thabah, Snežana Tomanović, Jelena Burazerović, Nóra Takács, Tamás Görföl, Péter Estók, Vuong Tan Tu, Krisztina Szőke, Isabel G. Fernández de Mera, José de la Fuente…
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:457
  38. Anopheles mosquito life-history parameters and population dynamics strongly influence malaria transmission, and environmental factors, particularly temperature, strongly affect these p...

    Authors: Céline D. Christiansen-Jucht, Paul E. Parham, Adam Saddler, Jacob C. Koella and María-Gloria Basáñez
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:456
  39. Mosquito infection with malaria parasites depends on complex interactions between the mosquito immune response, the parasite developmental program and the midgut microbiota. Simultaneous monitoring of the para...

    Authors: Tibebu Habtewold, Zoe Groom, Luc Duchateau and George K. Christophides
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:455
  40. Giardia duodenalis is a protozoan parasite that can cause significant diarrhoeal diseases. Knowledge of population genetics is a prerequisite for ascertaining the invasion patterns of ...

    Authors: Seow Huey Choy, Mohammed A. K. Mahdy, Hesham M. Al-Mekhlafi, Van Lun Low and Johari Surin
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:454
  41. Blastocystis species are common enteric human parasites and carriage has been linked to Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), particularly diarrhoea-predominant IBS. The spectrum of immune r...

    Authors: Robyn Nagel, Rebecca J. Traub, Marcella M S Kwan and Helle Bielefeldt-Ohmann
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:453
  42. Efforts to completely eradicate lymphatic filariasis from human population may be challenged by the emergence of Brugia pahangi as another zoonotic lymphatic filarial nematode. In this report, a genomic study was...

    Authors: Yee-Ling Lau, Wenn-Chyau Lee, Jinquan Xia, GuiPing Zhang, Rozaimi Razali, Arif Anwar and Mun-Yik Fong
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:451
  43. Bovine besnoitiosis has been recently diagnosed in a three-parted herd of 796 Aubrac and Charolais beef cattle in Hungary. A large scale serological, histological and molecular survey was initiated in order to...

    Authors: Sándor Hornok, András Fedák, Ferenc Baska, Walter Basso, László Dencső, Gergely Tóth, Levente Szeredi, Tamás Abonyi and Béla Dénes
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:450
  44. Borreliosis is highly prevalent in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. However, little is known about the presence of Borrelia pathogens in tick species in this region, in addition Borrelia pathogens have no...

    Authors: Yuan-Zhi Wang, Lu-Meng Mu, Ke Zhang, Mei-Hua Yang, Lin Zhang, Jing-Yun Du, Zhi-Qiang Liu, Yong-Xiang Li, Wei-Hua Lu, Chuang-Fu Chen, Yan Wang, Rong-Gui Chen, Jun Xu, Li Yuan, Wan-Jiang Zhang, Wei-Ze Zuo…
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:449
  45. In South America, Lutzomyia umbratilis is the main vector of Leishmania guyanensis, one of the species involved in the transmission of American tegumentary leishmaniasis. In Brazil, L. umbratilis has been recorde...

    Authors: Moises Thiago de Souza Freitas, Claudia Maria Ríos-Velasquez, César Raimundo Lima Costa Jr, Carlos Alberto Santiago Figueirêdo Jr, Nádia Consuelo Aragão, Lidiane Gomes da Silva, Marcus Vinicius de Aragão Batista, Teresa Cristina Leal Balbino, Felipe Arley Costa Pessoa and Valdir de Queiroz Balbino
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:448
  46. Early diagnosis of schistosomiasis, prior to egg laying, would enable earlier treatment and help interrupt the transmission cycle of the parasite and the progress of the disease. Previously we identified six n...

    Authors: Yuanbin Zhang, Jing Zhao, Xinye Wang, Xindong Xu and Weiqing Pan
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:447
  47. Accurate diagnosis of urogenital schistosomiasis is vital for surveillance/control programs. Amplification of schistosome DNA in urine by PCR is sensitive and specific but requires infrastructure, financial re...

    Authors: A. Rosser, D. Rollinson, M. Forrest and B L Webster
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:446
  48. Understanding the ecology of malaria vectors such as species composition and population dynamics is essential for developing cost-effective strategies to control mosquito vector populations.

    Authors: Ying Wang, Daibin Zhong, Liwang Cui, Ming-Chieh Lee, Zhaoqing Yang, Guiyun Yan and Guofa Zhou
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:445
  49. The protozoan Giardia duodenalis is a common but highly diverse human parasite that comprises a complex of seven morphologically identical genetic assemblages, further divided into sub-assemblages. There is very ...

    Authors: Corrado Minetti, Kenneth Lamden, Caroline Durband, John Cheesbrough, Andrew Fox and Jonathan M. Wastling
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:444

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