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  1. Rickettsia africae is the agent of African tick bite fever, a disease transmitted by ticks in sub-Saharan Africa. In Union of the Comoros, a recent study reported the presence of a Rickettsia africae vector but n...

    Authors: Amina Yssouf, Cristina Socolovschi, Tahar Kernif, Sarah Temmam, Erwan Lagadec, Pablo Tortosa and Philippe Parola
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:444
  2. Tick-borne encephalitis is the most common tick-borne viral infection in Europe with 3,000 human cases reported each year. In Western Europe, the castor bean tick, Ixodes ricinus, is the principal vector of the t...

    Authors: Nadia Rieille, Stéphane Bressanelli, Caio C M Freire, Séverine Arcioni, Lise Gern, Olivier Péter and Maarten J Voordouw
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:443
  3. Previously, we demonstrated that unlike subcutaneous or intramuscular vaccination, intranasal vaccination of BALB/c mice with whole Leishmania amazonensis antigens leads to protection against cutaneous leishmania...

    Authors: Herbert Leonel de Matos Guedes, Beatriz Lilian da Silva Costa, Suzana Passos Chaves, Daniel Cláudio de Oliveira Gomes, Joshua Daniel Nosanchuk, Salvatore Giovanni De Simone and Bartira Rossi-Bergmann
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:448
  4. Dengue viruses are transmitted by anthropophilic mosquitoes and infect approximately 50 million humans annually. To investigate impacts of future climate change on dengue virus transmission, we investigated bi...

    Authors: Craig R Williams, Gina Mincham, Scott A Ritchie, Elvina Viennet and David Harley
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:447
  5. The relationship between climatic factors and mosquito abundance is very important to determine parasite activity levels and, therefore, disease risk. Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate the sea...

    Authors: Kabirul Bashar and Nobuko Tuno
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:442
  6. The present study investigated the prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (s.l.) genospecies in Ixodes ricinus ticks collected in Hanover, Northern Germany, in 2010. At the same time the study served as fi...

    Authors: Julia Tappe, Daniela Jordan, Elisabeth Janecek, Volker Fingerle and Christina Strube
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:441

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  7. In Brazil, preventive chemotherapy targeting soil-transmitted helminthiasis is being scaled-up. Hence, spatially explicit estimates of infection risks providing information about the current situation are need...

    Authors: Frédérique Chammartin, Luiz H Guimarães, Ronaldo GC Scholte, Mara E Bavia, Jürg Utzinger and Penelope Vounatsou
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:440
  8. Anaplasma phagocytophilum is a tick-borne intragranulocytic alpha-proteobacterium. It is the causative agent of tick-borne fever in ruminants, and of human granulocytic anaplasmosis in humans, two diseases which ...

    Authors: Thibaud Dugat, Amélie Chastagner, Anne-Claire Lagrée, Elisabeth Petit, Benoît Durand, Simon Thierry, Fabien Corbière, Hélène Verheyden, Luc Chabanne, Xavier Bailly, Agnès Leblond, Gwenaël Vourc’h, Henri-Jean Boulouis, Renaud Maillard and Nadia Haddad
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:439
  9. Persistent monomolecular surface films could benefit larval source management for malaria control by reducing programme costs and managing insecticide resistance. This study evaluated the efficacy of the silic...

    Authors: Oscar Mbare, Steven W Lindsay and Ulrike Fillinger
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:438
  10. Identifying the parasites transmitted by a particular vector and the factors that render this vector susceptible to the parasite are key steps to understanding disease transmission. Although avian malaria has ...

    Authors: Flore Zélé, Juilen Vézilier, Gregory L’Ambert, Antoine Nicot, Sylvain Gandon, Ana Rivero and Olivier Duron
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:437
  11. While transmission of the human Plasmodium species has declined, a significant increase in Plasmodium knowlesi/Plasmodium malariae cases was reported in Hulu Selangor, Selangor, Malaysia. Thus, a study was undert...

    Authors: Indra Vythilingam, Yvonne AL Lim, Balan Venugopalan, Romano Ngui, Cherng Shii Leong, Meng Li Wong, LokeTim Khaw, XiangTing Goh, NanJiun Yap, Wan Yusoff Wan Sulaiman, John Jeffery, Ab Ghani CT Zawiah, Ismail Nor Aszlina, Reuben SK Sharma, Lau Yee Ling and Rohela Mahmud
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:436
  12. Susceptibility of Ae. aegypti mosquito to dengue virus (DENV) varies geographically and can be influenced by climatic factors such as temperature, which affect the incidence, seasonality and distribution of vecto...

    Authors: Edith Chepkorir, Joel Lutomiah, James Mutisya, Francis Mulwa, Konongoi Limbaso, Benedict Orindi, Zipporah Ng’ang’a and Rosemary Sang
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:435
  13. The prevalence of bovine babesiosis caused by Babesia divergens has been declining during the past decades in northeastern Hungary, and no cases have been observed since 2008. Infections of cattle with B. major a...

    Authors: Sándor Hornok, Anita Mester, Nóra Takács, Isabel G Fernández de Mera, José de la Fuente and Róbert Farkas
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:434
  14. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have been shown to be present in plasma, which are remarkably stable, and have been suggested as disease biomarkers. Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) is a protozoan parasite that is infective to a...

    Authors: Boyin Jia, Zhiguang Chang, Xiaoyan Wei, Huijun Lu, Jigang Yin, Ning Jiang and Qijun Chen
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:433
  15. Tick and tsetse-borne diseases (TTBDs) constrain livestock production in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Of this community of endemic diseases, East coast fever (T.parva) is the most important tick...

    Authors: Dennis Muhanguzi, Kim Picozzi, Jan Hatendorf, Michael Thrusfield, Susan Christina Welburn, John David Kabasa and Charles Waiswa
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:432
  16. Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular parasite that causes a pathological status known as toxoplasmosis, which has a huge impact on human and animal health. Currently, the main control strategy depends o...

    Authors: Ibrahim A Hassan, Shuai Wang, LiXin Xu, RuoFeng Yan, XiaoKai Song and Xiangrui Li
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:431
  17. Tick salivary constituents antagonize inflammatory, immune and hemostatic host responses, favoring tick blood feeding and the establishment of tick-borne pathogens in hosts during hematophagy. Amblyomma triste, A...

    Authors: Gustavo Rocha Garcia, Luiz Gustavo Gardinassi, José Marcos Ribeiro, Elen Anatriello, Beatriz Rossetti Ferreira, Higo Nasser Santanna Moreira, Cláudio Mafra, Maria Marlene Martins, Matias Pablo Juan Szabó, Isabel Kinney Ferreira de Miranda-Santos and Sandra Regina Maruyama
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:430
  18. Parascaris univalens is an ascaridoid nematode of equids. Little is known about its epidemiology and population genetics in domestic and wild horse populations. PCR-based methods are suited to support studies in ...

    Authors: Abdul Jabbar, D Timothy J Littlewood, Namitha Mohandas, Andrew G Briscoe, Peter G Foster, Fritz Müller, Georg von Samson-Himmelstjerna, Aaron R Jex and Robin B Gasser
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:428
  19. This paper summarizes prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in humans and animals and associated correlates of infection, clinical spectrum of disease in humans, and genetic diversity of T. gondii isolates from Colombi...

    Authors: William Alberto Cañón-Franco, Natalia López-Orozco, Jorge Enrique Gómez-Marín and Jitender P Dubey
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:427
  20. Alternative insecticidal compounds with mortality effect against mosquito life cycle stages are currently needed. The compounds should be biodegradable and nontoxic to non-targeted insects. Plant based larvici...

    Authors: France P Mdoe, Sen-Sung Cheng, Lucile Lyaruu, Gamba Nkwengulila, Shang-Tzen Chang and Eliningaya J Kweka
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:426
  21. Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular protozoan parasite that infects humans and a broad spectrum of warm-blooded vertebrates. The present study was undertaken with the objectives of isolation and determ...

    Authors: Endrias Zewdu Gebremedhin, Mukarim Abdurahaman, Tesfaye Sisay Tessema, Getachew Tilahun, Eric Cox, Bruno Goddeeris, Pierre Dorny, Stephane De Craeye, Marie-Laure Dardé and Daniel Ajzenberg
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:425
  22. Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease and drug-repurposing is a useful strategy to fill its exhausted drug development pipeline. The ferrocenyl analogue of chloroquine, ferroquine, is an antimalarial...

    Authors: Jennifer Keiser, Mireille Vargas, Riccardo Rubbiani, Gilles Gasser and Christophe Biot
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:424
  23. Anopheles pseudopunctipennis is an important malaria vector in the Neotropical region and the only species involved in Plasmodium transmission in the Andean foothills. Its wide geographical distribution in Americ...

    Authors: María J Dantur Juri, Marta Moreno, Mónica J Prado Izaguirre, Juan C Navarro, Mario O Zaidenberg, Walter R Almirón, Guillermo L Claps and Jan E Conn
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:423
  24. Infections with larval stages (metacestodes) of a variety of taeniid species have been described in primates, including humans, with partial to severe clinical consequences. Taenia martis is a tapeworm of musteli...

    Authors: Julie Brunet, Bernard Pesson, René Chermette, Pierrick Regnard, Felix Grimm, Peter Deplazes, Xavier Ferreira, Marcela Sabou, Alexander W Pfaff, Ahmed Abou-Bacar and Ermanno Candolfi
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:422
  25. Although the Mediterranean island of Majorca is an endemic area of leishmaniosis, there is a lack of up-to-date data on its sand fly fauna, the last report dating from 1989. The aim of the present study was to...

    Authors: M Magdalena Alcover, Cristina Ballart, Joaquina Martín-Sánchez, Teresa Serra, Soledad Castillejo, Montserrat Portús and Montserrat Gállego
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:421
  26. The diagnosis of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) might be difficult, in particular in endemic areas where different species of Leishmania can cause lesions of very similar appearance and where other skin diseases wi...

    Authors: Tarik Mouttaki, Manuel Morales-Yuste, Gema Merino-Espinosa, Soumiya Chiheb, Hassan Fellah, Joaquina Martin-Sanchez and Myriam Riyad
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:420
  27. Due to the effect of midgut bacteria on proliferation of parasites and their potential as paratransgenesis tools, their identification in malaria vector mosquitoes is important. Anopheles culicifacies s.l. is one...

    Authors: Ali Reza Chavshin, Mohammad Ali Oshaghi, Hasan Vatandoost, Mohammad Reza Pourmand, Ahmad Raeisi and Olle Terenius
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:419
  28. Borrelia miyamotoi is a relapsing fever spirochete found in Ixodes ticks in North America, Europe, and Asia, and has recently been found to be invasive in humans. Cultivation of this spirochete has not yet been d...

    Authors: Alex Wagemakers, Anneke Oei, Michelle M Fikrig, Willem R Miellet and Joppe W Hovius
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:418
  29. The Companion Animal Parasite Council hosted a meeting to identify quantifiable factors that can influence the prevalence of tick-borne disease agents among dogs in North America. This report summarizes the ap...

    Authors: Roger W Stich, Byron L Blagburn, Dwight D Bowman, Christopher Carpenter, M Roberto Cortinas, Sidney A Ewing, Desmond Foley, Janet E Foley, Holly Gaff, Graham J Hickling, R Ryan Lash, Susan E Little, Catherine Lund, Robert Lund, Thomas N Mather, Glen R Needham…
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:417
  30. This study was carried out to develop a health education learning package (HELP) about soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections, and to evaluate what impact such a package could have in terms of reducing the...

    Authors: Ahmed K Al-Delaimy, Hesham M Al-Mekhlafi, Yvonne AL Lim, Nabil A Nasr, Hany Sady, Wahib M Atroosh and Rohela Mahmud
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:416
  31. Various ecological and physiological mechanisms might influence the probability that two or more pathogens may simultaneously or sequentially infect a host individual. Concurrent infections can have important ...

    Authors: Matthew CI Medeiros, Tavis K Anderson, Jenni M Higashiguchi, Uriel D Kitron, Edward D Walker, Jeffrey D Brawn, Bethany L Krebs, Marilyn O Ruiz, Tony L Goldberg, Robert E Ricklefs and Gabriel L Hamer
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:415
  32. Non-clinical Theileria parva infection among indigenous cattle occurs upon recovery from primary disease during the first year of life. Continuous exposure to infection through contaminated tick infestations with...

    Authors: Fredrick Kabi, Charles Masembe, Vincent Muwanika, Halid Kirunda and Riccardo Negrini
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:414
  33. Theileria spp. are tick transmitted protozoa that can infect large and small ruminants causing disease and economic losses. Diagnosis of infections is often challenging, as parasites can be difficult to detect an...

    Authors: Yi Yang, Yongjiang Mao, Patrick Kelly, Zhangpin Yang, Lu Luan, Jilei Zhang, Jing Li, Heba S El-Mahallawy and Chengming Wang
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:413
  34. A number of epidemiological studies have demonstrated Giardia as prevalent in both humans and dogs worldwide and have postulated the occurrence of anthroponotic, zoonotic and animal-specific cycles of transmissio...

    Authors: Tawin Inpankaew, Fabian Schär, Peter Odermatt, Anders Dalsgaard, Wissanuwat Chimnoi, Virak Khieu, Sinuon Muth and Rebecca J Traub
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:412
  35. The development of anthelmintic resistance (AR) to macrocyclic lactones in the equine roundworm Parascaris equorum has resulted in benzimidazoles now being the most widely used substance to control Parascaris inf...

    Authors: Eva Tydén, Johan Dahlberg, Olof Karlberg and Johan Höglund
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:410
  36. Insecticide resistance in the mosquito vector is the one of the main obstacles against effective malaria control. In order to implement insecticide resistance management strategies, it is important to understa...

    Authors: Innocent Djègbè, Fiacre R Agossa, Christopher M Jones, Rodolphe Poupardin, Sylvie Cornelie, Martin Akogbéto, Hilary Ranson and Vincent Corbel
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:409
  37. Currently, China is moving towards the elimination of schistosomiasis japonica. In a previous review, the factors affecting the progress towards the elimination of transmission of schistosomiasis in China have...

    Authors: Wei Wang, Jian-Rong Dai and You-Sheng Liang
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:408
  38. Schistosomiasis japonicum remains a considerable economic and public health concern in China, the Philippines and Indonesia. Currently available measures to control the unique intermediate host Oncomelania hupens...

    Authors: Fan Yang, Erping Long, Juhua Wen, Lei Cao, Chengcheng Zhu, Huanxin Hu, Ying Ruan, Kamolnetr Okanurak, Huiling Hu, Xiaoxia Wei, Xiangyun Yang, Chaofan Wang, Limei Zhang, Xiaoying Wang, Pengyu Ji, Huanqin Zheng…
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:407
  39. Tryparedoxin peroxidase (TXNPx) participates in defence against oxidative stress as an antioxidant by metabolizing hydrogen peroxide into water molecules. Reports suggest that drug-resistant parasites may incr...

    Authors: Juvana M Andrade and Silvane M F Murta
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:406
  40. A large variety of mammals act as natural reservoirs of Trypanosoma cruzi (the causal agent of Chagas disease) across the American continent. Related issues are infection and parasite burden in these reservoirs, ...

    Authors: Fernando Martínez-Hernández, Emilio Rendon-Franco, Lilia María Gama-Campillo, Claudia Villanueva-García, Mirza Romero-Valdovinos, Pablo Maravilla, Ricardo Alejandre-Aguilar, Nancy Rivas, Alex Córdoba-Aguilar, Claudia Irais Muñoz-García and Guiehdani Villalobos
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:405
  41. Blastocystis, is one of the most common human intestinal protozoan, which has many conflicting reports on its pathogenic role. Gut conditions which obviously varies in asymptomatic individuals, symptomatic and ir...

    Authors: Nanthiney Devi Ragavan, Suresh Kumar Govind, Tan Tian Chye and Sanjiv Mahadeva
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:404
  42. The genomes of many insect and parasite species contain beta carbonic anhydrase (β-CA) protein coding sequences. The lack of β-CA proteins in mammals makes them interesting target proteins for inhibition in tr...

    Authors: Reza Zolfaghari Emameh, Harlan Barker, Vesa P Hytönen, Martti E E Tolvanen and Seppo Parkkila
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:403
  43. In 2011, a novel orthobunyavirus of the Simbu serogroup was discovered near the German-Dutch border and named Schmallenberg virus (SBV). So far, SBV genome has been detected in various field-collected Culicoides ...

    Authors: Kerstin Wernike, Hanna Jöst, Norbert Becker, Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit and Martin Beer
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:402
  44. Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is one of the common tropical protozoal diseases caused by various Leishmania species, and transmitted by the sand-fly vectors, Phlebotomus and Lutzomyia species. Herein, we report fo...

    Authors: Hamida Al-Dwibe, Aisha Gashout, Abdu-Maged Morogum, Said El-Zubi and Ahmad Amro
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:401
  45. A new species of phlebotomine sand flies belonging to Trichophoromyia Barretto, 1962 genus is described, based on males collected in Jaú National Park, Amazonas state, Brazil.

    Authors: Simone Ladeia-Andrade, Nelson Ferreira Fé, Cristiani de Castilho Sanguinette and José Dilermando Andrade Filho
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:400
  46. Swim bladder inflammation (SBI) is an important disease of common carp fingerlings in Central Europe. In the 1980s, its etiology was ascribed to multicellular proliferative stages of the myxozoan parasite Sphaero...

    Authors: Astrid S Holzer, Ashlie Hartigan, Sneha Patra, Hana Pecková and Edit Eszterbauer
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:398
  47. Angiostrongylus vasorum is a cardiopulmonary canine nematode, potentially fatal to its host. In the last decade, there has been an increasing number of autochthonous cases in areas previously considered non-endem...

    Authors: Stanislav Simin, Ljubica Spasojević Kosić, Ljiljana Kuruca, Ivan Pavlović, Milan Savović and Vesna Lalošević
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:396

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