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  1. Mosquito-borne viruses are transmitted to human hosts via blood-feeding behavior of female mosquitoes. Female mosquitoes seek a host to take blood meals (host-seeking behavior). In order to prevent virus infectio...

    Authors: Yuki Fukumitsu, Keiichi Irie, Tomomitsu Satho, Hitoshi Aonuma, Hamady Dieng, Abu Hassan Ahmad, Yukihiko Nakashima, Kenichi Mishima, Nobuhiro Kashige and Fumio Miake

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:92

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  3. For parasites with complex life cycles, size at transmission can impact performance in the next host, thereby coupling parasite phenotypes in the two consecutive hosts. However, a handful of studies with paras...

    Authors: Daniel P Benesh and Nina Hafer

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:90

    Content type: Research

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  4. Recent data from Ghana indicates that after seven rounds of annual mass drug administration (MDA) there is still sustained transmission albeit at low levels in certain areas where Anopheles melas, An. gambiae s.s...

    Authors: Josephine Ughasi, Hilaria Esiawonam Bekard, Maimouna Coulibaly, Delphina Adabie-Gomez, John Gyapong, Maxwell Appawu, Michael David Wilson and Daniel Adjei Boakye

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:89

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  5. Canine hookworm infection is endemic in Southeast Asian countries with a prevalence ranging from 70% to 100%, with zoonotic transmission representing a potentially significant public health concern. However, t...

    Authors: Mohammed AK Mahdy, Yvonne AL Lim, Romano Ngui, MR Siti Fatimah, Seow H Choy, Nan J Yap, Hesham M Al-Mekhlafi, Jamaiah Ibrahim and Johari Surin

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:88

    Content type: Research

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  6. The Leishmaniases are a group of clinically diverse diseases caused by parasites of the genus Leishmania. To distinguish between species is crucial for correct diagnosis and prognosis as well as for treatment dec...

    Authors: Jose M Requena, Carmen Chicharro, Lineth García, Rudy Parrado, Concepción J Puerta and Carmen Cañavate

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:87

    Content type: Research

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  7. Understanding the relationship between Plasmodium falciparum malaria transmission and health outcomes requires accurate estimates of exposure to infectious mosquitoes. However, measures of exposure such as mosqui...

    Authors: Nyaguara Amek, Nabie Bayoh, Mary Hamel, Kim A Lindblade, John E Gimnig, Frank Odhiambo, Kayla F Laserson, Laurence Slutsker, Thomas Smith and Penelope Vounatsou

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:86

    Content type: Research

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  8. Among ocular vector-borne pathogens, Onchocerca volvulus, the agent of the so-called “river blindness”, affects about 37 million people globally. Other Onchocerca spp. have been sporadically reported as zoonotic ...

    Authors: Domenico Otranto, Filipe Dantas-Torres, Zafer Cebeci, Baris Yeniad, Nesimi Buyukbabani, Ozden Buyukbaba Boral, Andrea Gustinelli, Trimèche Mounir, Yasen Mutafchiev and Odile Bain

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:84

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  9. Culex pipiens L. is the most widespread mosquito vector in temperate regions including North Africa. Cx. pipiens has two recognized forms or biotypes; pipiens and molestus are morphologically indistinguishable wi...

    Authors: Fadila Amraoui, Mhamed Tijane, Mhammed Sarih and Anna-Bella Failloux

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:83

    Content type: Research

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  10. The objectives of the studies listed here were to ascertain the therapeutic and sustained efficacy of 10% imidacloprid (w/w) and 4.5% flumethrin (w/w) incorporated in a slow-release matrix collar, against labo...

    Authors: Dorothee Stanneck, Eva M Kruedewagen, Josephus J Fourie, Ivan G Horak, Wendell Davis and Klemens J Krieger

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:82

    Content type: Research

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  12. Aedes polynesiensis is the primary vector of Wuchereria bancrofti in the South Pacific and an important vector of dengue virus. An improved understanding of the mosquito population genetics is needed for insight ...

    Authors: Corey L Brelsfoard and Stephen L Dobson

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:80

    Content type: Research

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  13. Two studies evaluating the efficacy of an imidacloprid/flumethrin collar (Seresto®, Bayer Animal Health, IVP), a deltamethrin collar (Scalibor®, MSD, CP1), a fipronil/(s)-methoprene spot-on (Frontline Combo®, ...

    Authors: Ivan G Horak, Josephus J Fourie and Dorothee Stanneck

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:79

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  14. Zanzibar has a long history of lymphatic filariasis (LF) caused by the filarial parasite Wuchereria bancrofti, and transmitted by the mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus Say. The LF Programme in Zanzibar has successf...

    Authors: Christopher M Jones, Camille Machin, Khalfan Mohammed, Silas Majambere, Abdullah S Ali, Bakari O Khatib, Juma Mcha, Hilary Ranson and Louise A Kelly-Hope

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:78

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  15. China has approximately one-fifth of the world’s population. Despite the recent success in controlling major parasitic diseases, parasitic diseases remain a significant human health problem in China. Hence, th...

    Authors: Guanghui Zhao, Shenyi He, Lin Chen, Na Shi, Yang Bai and Xing-Quan Zhu

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:77

    Content type: Review

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  16. Dirofilaria immitis and Dirofilaria repens are transmitted by bloodsucking culicid mosquitoes belonging to Culex, Aedes, Ochlerotatus, Anopheles and Mansonia genera.

    Authors: Maria Stefania Latrofa, Fabrizio Montarsi, Silvia Ciocchetta, Giada Annoscia, Filipe Dantas-Torres, Silvia Ravagnan, Gioia Capelli and Domenico Otranto

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:76

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  17. Leishmaniasis is a vector-borne disease, which is still endemic in the west and northwest area of China. Canines are the major reservoirs of Leishmania, the etiological agent of human visceral leishmaniasis. Phle...

    Authors: Ke Sun, Wang Guan, Jian-Guo Zhang, Ya-Jing Wang, Yu Tian, Lin Liao, Bin-Bin Yang, Da-Li Chen and Jian-Ping Chen

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:75

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  18. Neoehrlichia mikurensis s an emerging and vector-borne zoonosis: The first human disease cases were reported in 2010. Limited information is available about the prevalence and distribution of Neoehrlichia mikuren...

    Authors: Setareh Jahfari, Manoj Fonville, Paul Hengeveld, Chantal Reusken, Ernst-Jan Scholte, Willem Takken, Paul Heyman, Jolyon M Medlock, Dieter Heylen, Jenny Kleve and Hein Sprong

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:74

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  19. The control of tick and flea burdens in dogs and cats has become essential to the control of important and emerging vector borne diseases, some of which are zoonoses. Flea worry and flea bite hypersensitivity ...

    Authors: Dorothee Stanneck, Ulrich Ebbinghaus-Kintscher, Eva Schoenhense, Eva M Kruedewagen, Andreas Turberg, Andrew Leisewitz, Wolfgang Jiritschka and Klemens J Krieger

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:73

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  20. In Benin, Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) and long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) are the cornerstones of malaria prevention. In the context of high resistance of Anopheles gambiae to pyrethroids, The National ...

    Authors: Gil Germain Padonou, Michel Sezonlin, Razaki Ossé, Nazaire Aizoun, Frédéric Oké-Agbo, Olivier Oussou, Ghélus Gbédjissi and Martin Akogbéto

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:72

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  22. Cases of canine neural angiostrongylosis (NA) with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) evaluations in the peer-reviewed literature were tabulated. All cases were from Australia. A retrospective cohort of 59 dogs was con...

    Authors: Julian A Lunn, Rogan Lee, Joanna Smaller, Bruce M MacKay, Terry King, Geraldine B Hunt, Patricia Martin, Mark B Krockenberger, Derek Spielman and Richard Malik

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:70

    Content type: Review

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  23. Global maps, in particular those based on vector distributions, have long been used to help visualise the global extent of malaria. Few, however, have been created with the support of a comprehensive and exten...

    Authors: Marianne E Sinka, Michael J Bangs, Sylvie Manguin, Yasmin Rubio-Palis, Theeraphap Chareonviriyaphap, Maureen Coetzee, Charles M Mbogo, Janet Hemingway, Anand P Patil, William H Temperley, Peter W Gething, Caroline W Kabaria, Thomas R Burkot, Ralph E Harbach and Simon I Hay

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:69

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  24. At Yaokoffikro field site near Bouaké, in central Côte d'Ivoire, a group of experimental huts built in 1996 served over many years for the evaluation of insecticides against highly resistant mosquitoes. Breedi...

    Authors: Alphonsine A Koffi, Ludovic P Ahoua Alou, Maurice A Adja, Moussa Koné, Fabrice Chandre and Raphael N'Guessan

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:68

    Content type: Research

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  26. The objective of these two GCP multicentre European clinical field studies was to evaluate the long-term efficacy and safety of a new imidacloprid/flumethrin collar (Seresto®, Bayer AnimalHealth, Investigational ...

    Authors: Dorothee Stanneck, Julia Rass, Isabel Radeloff, Eva Kruedewagen, Christophe Le Sueur, Klaus Hellmann and Klemens Krieger

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:66

    Content type: Research

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  27. Predation of aquatic immature stages has been identified as a major evolutionary force driving habitat segregation and niche partitioning in the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae sensu stricto in the humid savan...

    Authors: Geoffrey Gimonneau, Marco Pombi, Roch K Dabiré, Abdoulaye Diabaté, Serge Morand and Frédéric Simard

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:65

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  28. Leishmania (Viannia) shawi parasite was first characterized in 1989. Recently the protective effects of soluble leishmanial antigen (SLA) from L. (V.) shawi promastigotes were demonstrated using BALB/c mice, the ...

    Authors: Luiz Felipe D Passero, Ana Kely Carvalho, Maria LAC Bordon, Alexis Bonfim-Melo, Karina Carvalho, Esper G Kallás, Bianca BA Santos, Marcos H Toyama, Adriana Paes-Leme, Carlos EP Corbett and Márcia D Laurenti

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:64

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  29. Formal publication of the Culex genome sequence has closed the human disease vector triangle by meeting the Anopheles gambiae and Aedes aegypti genome sequences. Compared to these other mosquitoes, Culex quinq...

    Authors: BP Niranjan Reddy, Pierrick Labbé and Vincent Corbel

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:63

    Content type: Letter to the Editor

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  30. Canine vector-borne diseases (CVBDs) are caused by a wide range of pathogens transmitted to dogs by arthropods including ticks and insects. Many CVBD-agents are of zoonotic concern, with dogs potentially servi...

    Authors: Luís Cardoso, Cláudio Mendão and Luís Madeira de Carvalho

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:62

    Content type: Research

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  31. Ixodes ricinus, a competent vector of several pathogens, is the tick species most frequently reported to bite humans in Europe. The majority of human cases of Lyme borreliosis (LB) and tick-borne encephalitis (TB...

    Authors: Gioia Capelli, Silvia Ravagnan, Fabrizio Montarsi, Silvia Ciocchetta, Stefania Cazzin, Elena Porcellato, Amira Mustafa Babiker, Rudi Cassini, Annalisa Salviato, Giovanni Cattoli and Domenico Otranto

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:61

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  32. Canine leishmaniosis (CanL) caused by Leishmania infantum is a widespread endemic disease in the Mediterranean basin, though, so far, the north of Spain has been considered a non-endemic area. The aim of the pres...

    Authors: Guadalupe Miró, Rocío Checa, Ana Montoya, Leticia Hernández, Diana Dado and Rosa Gálvez

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:60

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  33. The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has proved to be a sensitive technique to detect Trypanosoma cruzi in the chronic phase of Chagas disease, which is characterized by low and fluctuating parasitemia. Another te...

    Authors: Nicolás Bravo, Catalina Muñoz, Nicolás Nazal, Miguel Saavedra, Gabriela Martínez, Eduardo Araya, Werner Apt and Inés Zulantay

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:59

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  34. Characterizing the breeding site of Anopheles sinensis is of major importance for the transition from malaria control to elimination in China. However, little information is available especially regarding the cha...

    Authors: Xiao-Bo Liu, Qi-Yong Liu, Yu-Hong Guo, Jing-Yi Jiang, Dong-Sheng Ren, Guang-Chao Zhou, Can-Jun Zheng, Jing-Li Liu, Yun Chen, Hong-Sheng Li, Hua-Zhong Li and Qun Li

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:58

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  35. The invasive mosquito Aedes albopictus is often considered a poor vector of human pathogens, owing to its catholic feeding behavior. However, it was recently incriminated as a major vector in several Chikungunya ...

    Authors: Basile Kamgang, Elysée Nchoutpouen, Frédéric Simard and Christophe Paupy

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:57

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  36. In the past ten years, the Indian Ocean region has been the theatre of severe epidemics of chikungunya and dengue. These outbreaks coincided with a high increase in populations of Aedes albopictus that outcompete...

    Authors: Fara Nantenaina Raharimalala, Lala Harivelo Ravaomanarivo, Pierre Ravelonandro, Lala Sahondra Rafarasoa, Karima Zouache, Van Tran-Van, Laurence Mousson, Anna-Bella Failloux, Eléonore Hellard, Claire Valiente Moro, Bakoly Olga Ralisoa and Patrick Mavingui

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:56

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  37. The human-animal bond has been a fundamental feature of mankind's history for millennia. The first, and strongest of these, man's relationship with the dog, is believed to pre-date even agriculture, going back...

    Authors: Gad Baneth, Patrick Bourdeau, Gilles Bourdoiseau, Dwight Bowman, Edward Breitschwerdt, Gioia Capelli, Luís Cardoso, Filipe Dantas-Torres, Michael Day, Jean-Pierre Dedet, Gerhard Dobler, Lluís Ferrer, Peter Irwin, Volkhard Kempf, Babara Kohn, Michael Lappin…

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:55

    Content type: Letter to the Editor

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  38. Vapour phase spatial repellents deter mosquitoes from attacking one or more humans in a protected space. Simulation models indicate that high coverage of spatial repellents can enhance the impact of long - las...

    Authors: Sheila B Ogoma, Hassan Ngonyani, Emmanuel T Simfukwe, Anthony Mseka, Jason Moore and Gerry F Killeen

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:54

    Content type: Short report

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  39. Anti-Wolbachia treatment with doxycycline is effective in sterilising and killing adult Onchocerca volvulus nematodes, proving superior to ivermectin and of great potential as an alternative approach for the trea...

    Authors: Francesca Tamarozzi, Nicholas Tendongfor, Peter A Enyong, Mathias Esum, Brian Faragher, Samuel Wanji and Mark J Taylor

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:53

    Content type: Short report

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  40. The South-to-North Water Diversion Project (SNWDP) is the largest national water conservancy project in China. However, the Eastern Route Project (ERP) of SNWDP will refer to the habitats of Oncomelania hupensis,...

    Authors: You-Sheng Liang, Wei Wang, Hong-Jun Li, Xue-Hui Shen, Yong-Liang Xu and Jian-Rong Dai

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:52

    Content type: Research

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  41. In Morocco, cutaneous leishmaniasis is transmitted by Phlebotomus sergenti and Ph. papatasi. Vector control is mainly based on environmental management but indoor residual spraying with synthetic pyrethroids is a...

    Authors: Chafika Faraj, Souad Ouahabi, El Bachir Adlaoui, Mohammed El Elkohli, Lhousseine Lakraa, Mohammed El Rhazi and Btissam Ameur

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:51

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  42. Chronic soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections have been associated with reduced physical fitness, but available evidence is limited. The aim of this cross-sectional survey was to assess the feasibility of...

    Authors: Peiling Yap, Zun-Wei Du, Ran Chen, Li-Ping Zhang, Fang-Wei Wu, Jian Wang, Xue-Zhong Wang, Hui Zhou, Xiao-Nong Zhou, Jürg Utzinger and Peter Steinmann

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:50

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  43. It is known that Anaplasma (A.) platys, the causative agent of infectious canine cyclic thrombocytopenia, is endemic in countries of the Mediterranean basin. However, few reports are available from the Balkans. T...

    Authors: Viktor Dyachenko, Nikola Pantchev, Hans-Joerg Balzer, Ariane Meyersen and Reinhard K Straubinger

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:49

    Content type: Short report

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  44. As an obligate intracellular parasite, Toxoplasma gondii can infect humans and almost all warm-blooded animals. The consumption of raw or undercooked beef and milk is considered a risk for T. gondii infection in ...

    Authors: Dong-Hui Zhou, Fu-Rong Zhao, Ping Lu, Hui-Yan Xia, Min-Jun Xu, Li-Guo Yuan, Chao Yan, Si-Yang Huang, Shou-Jun Li and Xing-Quan Zhu

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:48

    Content type: Research

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  46. Phlebotomus papatasi the vector of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is the most widely spread sand fly in Sudan. No data has previously been collected on insecticide susceptibility and/or resistance of this vector, a...

    Authors: Mo'awia Mukhtar Hassan, Sally Osman Widaa, Osman Mohieldin Osman, Mona Siddig Mohammed Numiary, Mihad Abdelaal Ibrahim and Hind Mohammed Abushama

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:46

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  47. Rhodnius prolixus is one of the main vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi, causative agent of Chagas disease. In Central America, it was first discovered in 1915 in El Salvador, from where it spread northwest to Guatemal...

    Authors: Ken Hashimoto and Christopher J Schofield

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:45

    Content type: Review

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  48. Mosquitoes belonging to the Albitarsis Group (Anopheles: Nyssorhynchus) are of importance as malaria vectors across the Neotropics. The Group currently comprises six known species, and recent studies have indicat...

    Authors: Freddy Ruiz-Lopez, Richard C Wilkerson, Jan E Conn, Sascha N McKeon, David M Levin, Martha L Quiñones, Marinete M Póvoa and Yvonne-Marie Linton

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:44

    Content type: Research

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  49. Immunological mechanisms involved in the survival and development of human filarial species in the vertebrate host are poorly known due to the lack of suitable experimental models. In order to understand the r...

    Authors: Nicholas Tendongfor, Samuel Wanji, Julius C Ngwa, Mathias E Esum, Sabine Specht, Peter Enyong, Klaus I Matthaei and Achim Hoerauf

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:43

    Content type: Research

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  50. Since the original description and naming of Ascaris lumbricoides from humans by Linnaeus in 1758 and later of Ascaris suum from pigs by Goeze 1782, these species have been considered to be valid. Four hypotheses...

    Authors: Daniela Leles, Scott L Gardner, Karl Reinhard, Alena Iñiguez and Adauto Araujo

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2012 5:42

    Content type: Review

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