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  1. One of the challenges for monitoring helminth control programmes based on preventive chemotherapy is the lack of a copro-parasitological gold–standard method that combines good sensitivity with quantitative pe...

    Authors: Beatrice Barda, Henry Zepherine, Laura Rinaldi, Giuseppe Cringoli, Roberto Burioni, Massimo Clementi and Marco Albonico
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:220
  2. In 2011, we reported occurrence of natural human infections with Brugia pahangi, a filarial worm of dogs and cats, in a surburb of Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia. Our preliminary entomological survey ...

    Authors: Azdayanti Muslim, Mun-Yik Fong, Rohela Mahmud, Yee-Ling Lau and Sinnadurai Sivanandam
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:219
  3. Lymphatic filariasis (LF) due to Wuchereria bancrofti is being eliminated from Oceania under the Pacific Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis Programme. LF was endemic in Solomon Islands but in the 2010-2020 Strat...

    Authors: Humpress Harrington, James Asugeni, Christopher Jimuru, John Gwalaa, Elmer Ribeyro, Richard Bradbury, Hayley Joseph, Wayne Melrose, David MacLaren and Rick Speare
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:218
  4. Cutaneous leishmaniasis is an infectious disease caused by flagellate protozoa of the genus Leishmania. In Morocco, anthroponotic cutaneous leishmaniasis due to Leishmania tropica is considered as a public health...

    Authors: Malika Ajaoud, Nargys Es-sette, Salsabil Hamdi, Abderahmane Laamrani El-Idrissi, Myriam Riyad and Meryem Lemrani
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:217
  5. Blastocystis is a ubiquitous, globally distributed intestinal protist infecting humans and a wide range of animals. Several studies have shown that Blastocystis is a potentially zoonotic parasite. A 1996 study re...

    Authors: Wenqi Wang, Leigh Cuttell, Helle Bielefeldt-Ohmann, Tawin Inpankaew, Helen Owen and Rebecca J Traub
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:215
  6. The recent rebounds of schistosomiasis in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River pose a challenge to the current control strategies. In this study, identification of potential high risk snail habita...

    Authors: Yi Hu, Zhijie Zhang, Yue Chen, Zengliang Wang, Jie Gao, Bo Tao, Qiulin Jiang and Qingwu Jiang
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:214
  7. The taxonomic status of the brown dog tick (Rhipicephalus sanguineus sensu stricto), which has long been regarded as the most widespread tick worldwide and a vector of many pathogens to dogs and humans, is curren...

    Authors: Filipe Dantas-Torres, Maria Stefania Latrofa, Giada Annoscia, Alessio Giannelli, Antonio Parisi and Domenico Otranto
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:213
  8. Spotted fever group (SFG) rickettsiae have recently been identified for the first time in UK ticks. This included the findings of Rickettsia helvetica in Ixodes ricinus and Rickettsia raoultii in Dermacentor reti...

    Authors: Ellen Tijsse-Klasen, Kayleigh M Hansford, Setareh Jahfari, Paul Phipps, Hein Sprong and Jolyon M Medlock
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:212
  9. Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) has been successfully implemented to control, and in some cases, eradicate, dipteran insect populations. SIT has great potential as a mosquito control method. Different sterilizatio...

    Authors: Stacy D Rodriguez, Ramaninder K Brar, Lisa L Drake, Hannah E Drumm, David P Price, John I Hammond, Jacob Urquidi and Immo A Hansen
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:211
  10. Dog communities living in kennels are at high risk of being infected by ticks and fleas. In spite of the indubitable efficacy of several topical ectoparasiticides registered for the control of ectoparasites in...

    Authors: Emanuele Brianti, Luigi Falsone, Ettore Napoli, Chiara Prudente, Gabriella Gaglio and Salvatore Giannetto
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:210
  11. The recent notifications of autochthonous cases of dengue and chikungunya in Europe prove that the region is vulnerable to these diseases in areas where known mosquito vectors (Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti)...

    Authors: Francis Schaffner, Romeo Bellini, Dušan Petrić, Ernst-Jan Scholte, Hervé Zeller and Laurence Marrama Rakotoarivony
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:209
  12. Blood-sucking flying insects play a key role in the transmission of pathogens of vector-borne diseases. However, at least for the case of avian malaria parasites, the vast majority of studies focus on the inte...

    Authors: Martina Ferraguti, Josué Martínez-de la Puente, Santiago Ruiz, Ramón Soriguer and Jordi Figuerola
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:208
  13. New compounds for the treatment of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) are urgently required. Trypanosoma brucei (T.b.) gambiense is the leading cause of HAT, yet T.b. gambiense is often not the prime target orga...

    Authors: Nick Van Reet, Pati Pyana, Stijn Rogé, Filip Claes and Philippe Büscher
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:207
  14. Mating is a physiological process of crucial importance underlying the size and maintenance of mosquito populations. In sterile and incompatible insect technologies (SIT and IIT), mating is essential for mass ...

    Authors: Dieng Hamady, Norrafiza Binti Ruslan, Abu Hassan Ahmad, Che Salmah Md Rawi, Hamdan Ahmad, Tomomitsu Satho, Fumio Miake, Wan Fatma Zuharah, Yuki FuKumitsu, Ahmad Ramli Saad, Sudha Rajasaygar, Ronald Enrique Morales Vargas, Abdul Hafiz Ab Majid, Nik Fadzly, Idris Abd Ghani and Sazaly AbuBakar
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:206
  15. Deer tick virus, DTV, is a genetically and ecologically distinct lineage of Powassan virus (POWV) also known as lineage II POWV. Human incidence of POW encephalitis has increased in the last 15 years potential...

    Authors: Alan P Dupuis II, Ryan J Peters, Melissa A Prusinski, Richard C Falco, Richard S Ostfeld and Laura D Kramer
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:185
  16. Simulium damnosum s.l., the most important vector of onchocerciasis in Africa, is a complex of sibling species that have been described on the basis of differences in their larval polytene chromosomes. These (cyt...

    Authors: Rory J Post, Robert A Cheke, Daniel A Boakye, Michael D Wilson, Mike Y Osei-Atweneboana, Anthony Tetteh-Kumah, Poppy HL Lamberton, J Lee Crainey, Laurent Yaméogo and María-Gloria Basáñez
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:205
  17. Caused by trypanosomes and transmitted by tsetse flies, Human African Trypanosomiasis and bovine trypanosomiasis remain endemic across much of rural Uganda where the major reservoir of acute human infection is...

    Authors: Kevin Bardosh, Charles Waiswa and Susan C Welburn
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:204
  18. Enhanced inflammatory host responses have been attributed as the cellular basis for development of severe malaria as well as sepsis. In contrast to this, filarial infections have been consistently reported to ...

    Authors: Madhumita Panda, Prakash K Sahoo, Alok Das Mohapatra, Soumya kanti Dutta, Pravat K Thatoi, Rina Tripathy, Bidyut K Das, Ashok K Satpathy and Balachandran Ravindran
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:203
  19. Carbohydrate structures of surface-expressed and secreted/excreted glycoconjugates of the human blood fluke Schistosoma mansoni are key determinants that mediate host-parasite interactions in both snail and mamma...

    Authors: Nathan A Peterson, Tavis K Anderson, Xiao-Jun Wu and Timothy P Yoshino
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:201
  20. Different techniques are available for colour marking insects and each technique may be suitable for different insect species. Mosquitoes can be marked to determine population size, distribution and flight dis...

    Authors: Niels O Verhulst, Jeanine ACM Loonen and Willem Takken
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:200
  21. Hepatic schistosomiasis is considered to be one of the most prevalent forms of chronic liver disease in the world due to its complication of liver fibrosis. The demonstration of the pro-fibrogenic role of angi...

    Authors: Yasmeen M Attia, Essam F Elalkamy, Olfat A Hammam, Soheir S Mahmoud and Aiman S El-Khatib
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:199
  22. An increasing number of countries in Africa and elsewhere are developing national plans for the control of neglected tropical diseases. A key component of such plans is school-based deworming (SBD) for the con...

    Authors: Charles S Mwandawiro, Birgit Nikolay, Jimmy H Kihara, Owen Ozier, Dunstan A Mukoko, Mariam T Mwanje, Anna Hakobyan, Rachel L Pullan, Simon J Brooker and Sammy M Njenga
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:198
  23. Ivermectin has longevity reducing effects in several insect species, including disease transmitting mosquitoes after feeding on hosts that have received ivermectin treatment. This has important implications in...

    Authors: Hanano Yamada, Sharon M Soliban, Marc JB Vreysen, Dave D Chadee and Jeremie RL Gilles
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:197
  24. Post kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) is a neglected complication of visceral leishmaniasis (VL)―a deadly, infectious disease that claims approximately 20,000 to 40,000 lives every year. PKDL is thought t...

    Authors: Philippe Desjeux, Raj Shankar Ghosh, Pritu Dhalaria, Nathalie Strub-Wourgaft and Ed E Zijlstra
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:196
  25. It has been suggested that increasing biodiversity, specifically host diversity, reduces pathogen and parasite transmission amongst wildlife (causing a “dilution effect”), whereby transmission amongst efficien...

    Authors: Catherine Bouchard, Guy Beauchamp, Patrick A Leighton, Robbin Lindsay, Denise Bélanger and Nick H Ogden
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:195
  26. Clonorchiasis caused by ingesting improperly prepared fish ranks among the most important but still neglected food-borne parasitic diseases, especially in the People’s Republic of China (P.R. China). To promot...

    Authors: Men-Bao Qian, Ying-Dan Chen, Yue-Yi Fang, Tan Tan, Ting-Jun Zhu, Chang-Hai Zhou, Guo-Fei Wang, Long-Qi Xu and Xiao-Nong Zhou
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:194
  27. Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) remains a public health problem in many poor countries. Due to lack of financial resources in these countries, cost-effective strategies are needed for efficient control of ...

    Authors: Judith Tchouomene-Labou, Hugues Nana-Djeunga, Gustave Simo, Guy Roger Njitchouang, Gerard Cuny, Tazoacha Asonganyi and Flobert Njiokou
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:193
  28. Owing to pyrethroid resistance in An. gambiae, the carbamate and organophosphate insecticides are currently regarded as alternatives or supplements to pyrethroids for use on mosquito net treatments. Resistance mo...

    Authors: Rock Aïkpon, Fiacre Agossa, Razaki Ossè, Olivier Oussou, Nazaire Aïzoun, Frédéric Oké-Agbo and Martin Akogbéto
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:192
  29. Concerning the infection of humans by T. gondii, limited efforts have been directed to the elucidation of the role of horizontal transmission between hosts. One of the main routes of transmission from animals to ...

    Authors: Hugo Vieira Fajardo, Sthefane D’ávila, Ronaldo Rocha Bastos, Carolina Dutra Cyrino, Michelle de Lima Detoni, João Luis Garcia, Leandro Batista das Neves, José Leonardo Nicolau and Maria Regina Reis Amendoeira
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:191
  30. The incidence of tick-borne diseases is increasing in Europe. Sub national information on tick distribution, ecology and vector status is often lacking. However, precise location of infection risk can lead to ...

    Authors: Valerie Obsomer, Marc Wirtgen, Annick Linden, Edwin Claerebout, Paul Heyman, Dieter Heylen, Maxime Madder, Jo Maris, Maude Lebrun, Wesley Tack, Laetitia Lempereur, Thierry Hance and Georges Van Impe
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:190
  31. The genetic variability of Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis was assessed at intra and interpatient levels of individuals with different clinical manifestations of American tegumentary leishmaniasis (ATL).

    Authors: Fernanda S Oliveira, Cláudia M Valete-Rosalino, Sandro JB Pacheco, Filipe A Carvalho Costa, Armando O Schubach and Raquel S Pacheco
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:189
  32. Opisthorchis viverrini infection is still one of the public health problems in Thailand. Our recent cohort study conducted in a rural community in central Thailand showed that the incidence rate of O. viverrin...

    Authors: Picha Suwannahitatorn, Saranapoom Klomjit, Tawee Naaglor, Paanjit Taamasri, Ram Rangsin, Saovanee Leelayoova and Mathirut Mungthin
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:188
  33. Understanding the variation in prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (Lyme Borreliosis Spirochaetes, LBS) and Anaplasma phagocytophilum (causing tick-borne fever in ruminants and human granulocytic ehrlic...

    Authors: Atle Mysterud, William Ryan Easterday, Lars Qviller, Hildegunn Viljugrein and Bjørnar Ytrehus
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:187
  34. Sand fly species of the genus Sergentomyia are proven vectors of reptilian Leishmania that are non-pathogenic to humans. However, a consideration of the role of Sergentomyia spp. in the circulation of mammalian l...

    Authors: Jovana Sadlova, Vit Dvorak, Veronika Seblova, Alon Warburg, Jan Votypka and Petr Volf
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:186
  35. Anopheles funestus is one of the major malaria vectors in Africa but research on this species has been restricted due to the lack of viable laboratory colonies. The vectorial capacity of natural populations of An...

    Authors: T Mike Lo and Maureen Coetzee
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:184
  36. Although Ixodes spp. are the most common ticks in North-Western Europe, recent reports indicated an expanding geographical distribution of Dermacentor reticulatus in Western Europe. Recently, the establishment of...

    Authors: Edwin Claerebout, Bertrand Losson, Christel Cochez, Stijn Casaert, Anne-Catherine Dalemans, Ann De Cat, Maxime Madder, Claude Saegerman, Paul Heyman and Laetitia Lempereur
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:183
  37. Malaria represents one of the most devastating infectious diseases. The lack of an effective vaccine and the emergence of drug resistance make necessary the development of new effective control methods. The re...

    Authors: Aida Capone, Irene Ricci, Claudia Damiani, Michela Mosca, Paolo Rossi, Patrizia Scuppa, Elena Crotti, Sara Epis, Mauro Angeletti, Matteo Valzano, Luciano Sacchi, Claudio Bandi, Daniele Daffonchio, Mauro Mandrioli and Guido Favia
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:182
  38. Severe neurological signs that develop during acute infection by virulent strains of Babesia bovis are associated with sequestration of infected erythrocytes in cerebral capillaries. Serial passage of virulent st...

    Authors: Kerry S Sondgeroth, Terry F McElwain, Andrew J Allen, Annie V Chen and Audrey OT Lau
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:181
  39. Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is found in limited endemic foci in Poland. Lack of diagnosis limits disease detection in non-endemic provinces.

    Authors: Pawel Stefanoff, Anna Zielicka-Hardy, Maria Hlebowicz, Ryszard Konior, Dariusz Lipowski, Leszek Szenborn, Joanna Siennicka and Hana Orlikova
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:180
  40. Characterization of mosquito breeding habitats is often accomplished with the goal of guiding larval control interventions as well as the goal of identifying areas with higher disease risk. This characterizati...

    Authors: Denis Valle, Benjamin Zaitchik, Beth Feingold, Keith Spangler and William Pan
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:179
  41. Leishmania infantum and Toxoplasma gondii are protozoa with zoonotic and economic importance. Prevalences of antibodies to these agents were assessed in 173 horses from the north of Portugal.

    Authors: Ana Patrícia Lopes, Susana Sousa, JP Dubey, Ana J Ribeiro, Ricardo Silvestre, Mário Cotovio, Henk DFH Schallig, Luís Cardoso and Anabela Cordeiro-da-Silva
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:178
  42. Various genospecies of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (s.l.) have been identified from patients and animals worldwide. Genospecies-related dissemination of disease has been reported. The present study aimed to e...

    Authors: Qiong Wu, Zhijie Liu, Jidong Wang, Youquan Li, Guiquan Guan, Jifei Yang, Ze Chen, Jianxun Luo and Hong Yin
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:177
  43. Anopheles sinensis, Anopheles anthropophagus, Anopheles minimus and Anopheles dirus are the major vectors of malaria transmission in China. Anopheles sinensis is considered a secondary vector due to its relativel...

    Authors: Guoding Zhu, Hui Xia, Huayun Zhou, Julin Li, Feng Lu, Yaobao Liu, Jun Cao, Qi Gao and Jetsumon Sattabongkot
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:176
  44. Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular parasite that can pose a serious threat to human health by causing toxoplasmosis. There are no drugs that target the chronic cyst stage of this infection; therefore,...

    Authors: Guanghui Zhao, Aihua Zhou, Gang Lu, Min Meng, Min Sun, Yang Bai, Yali Han, Lin Wang, Huaiyu Zhou, Hua Cong, Qunli Zhao, Xing-Quan Zhu and Shenyi He
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:175
  45. Mass distribution of long-lasting insecticide treated bed nets (LLINs) has led to large increases in LLIN coverage in many African countries. As LLIN ownership levels increase, planners of future mass distribu...

    Authors: Joshua Yukich, Adam Bennett, Joseph Keating, Rudy K Yukich, Matt Lynch, Thomas P Eisele and Kate Kolaczinski
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:174
  46. Recent studies presented two clades (clades I and II) within the major malaria vector, Anopheles funestus s.s. on the mitochondrial DNA. We describe a hydrolysis probe analysis (Taqman assay) method for the rapid...

    Authors: Kwang Shik Choi, Maureen Coetzee and Lizette L Koekemoer
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:173
  47. Ticks and tick-borne diseases (TBDs) undermine cattle fitness and productivity in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa, including Nigeria. The aim of this study was to document the composition of tick species, asse...

    Authors: Vincenzo Lorusso, Kim Picozzi, Barend MC de Bronsvoort, Ayodele Majekodunmi, Charles Dongkum, Gyang Balak, Augustine Igweh and Susan C Welburn
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:171
  48. Acanthamoeba can interact with a wide range of microorganisms such as viruses, algae, yeasts, protists and bacteria including Legionella pneumophila, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Vibrio cholerae, Helicobacter pylori,

    Authors: Farzana Abubakar Yousuf, Ruqaiyyah Siddiqui and Naveed Ahmed Khan
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2013 6:169

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