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  1. Protein kinases are key enzymes that regulate a wide range of cellular processes, including cell-cycle progression, transcription, DNA replication and metabolic functions. These enzymes catalyse the transfer o...

    Authors: Min Hu, Nicole LaRonde-LeBlanc, Paul W Sternberg and Robin B Gasser
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2008 1:34
  2. The majority of filarial nematodes harbour Wolbachia endobacteria, including the major pathogenic species in humans, Onchocerca volvulus, Brugia malayi and Wuchereria bancrofti. These obligate endosymbionts have ...

    Authors: Jeremy M Foster, Sanjay Kumar, Louise Ford, Kelly L Johnston, Renata Ben, Carlos Graeff-Teixeira and Mark J Taylor
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2008 1:31
  3. Intestinal helminth infections of livestock and humans are predominantly controlled by treatment with three classes of synthetic drugs, but some livestock nematodes have now developed resistance to all three c...

    Authors: Jerzy M Behnke, David J Buttle, Gillian Stepek, Ann Lowe and Ian R Duce
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2008 1:29
  4. Trichinella infection results in formation of a capsule in infected muscles. The capsule is a residence of the parasite which is composed of the nurse cell and fibrous wall. The process of nurse cell formation is...

    Authors: Zhiliang Wu, Lj Sofronic-Milosavljevic, Isao Nagano and Yuzo Takahashi
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2008 1:27
  5. Since a large focus of human infection with Plasmodium knowlesi, a simian malaria parasite naturally found in long-tailed and pig tailed macaques, was reported in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, it was pertinent to st...

    Authors: Indra Vythilingam, Yusuf M NoorAzian, Tan Cheong Huat, Adela Ida Jiram, Yusof M Yusri, Abdul H Azahari, Ismail NorParina, Abdullah NoorRain and Sulaiman LokmanHakim
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2008 1:26
  6. Canine vector-borne diseases (CVBDs) are highly prevalent in Brazil and represent a challenge to veterinarians and public health workers, since some diseases are of great zoonotic potential. Dogs are affected ...

    Authors: Filipe Dantas-Torres
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2008 1:25
  7. Vectors of trypanosomiasis – tsetse (Glossinidae) in Africa, kissing-bugs (Triatominae) in Latin America – are very different insects but share demographic characteristics that render them highly vulnerable to...

    Authors: Chris J Schofield and John P Kabayo
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2008 1:24
  8. Although numerous studies on parasites of the Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua L. have been conducted in the North Atlantic, comparative analyses on local cod parasite faunas are virtually lacking. The present study is...

    Authors: Diana Perdiguero-Alonso, Francisco E Montero, Juan Antonio Raga and Aneta Kostadinova
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2008 1:23
  9. Trypanosoma brucei is a haemoflagellate pathogen of man, wild animals and domesticated livestock in central and southern Africa. In all life cycle stages this parasite has a single mitochondrion that contains a u...

    Authors: Mélanie Bonhivers, Nicolas Landrein, Marion Decossas and Derrick R Robinson
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2008 1:21
  10. American Trypanosomiasis or Chagas disease is caused by Trypanosoma cruzi which currently infects approximately 16 million people in the Americas causing high morbidity and mortality. Diagnosis of American trypan...

    Authors: Milene H de Moraes, Alessandra A Guarneri, Fabiana P Girardi, Juliana B Rodrigues, Iriane Eger, Kevin M Tyler, Mário Steindel and Edmundo C Grisard
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2008 1:20
  11. In previous studies it was determined that the stable isotope 13-carbon can be used as a semen label to detect mating events in the malaria mosquito Anopheles arabiensis. In this paper we describe the use of an a...

    Authors: Michelle EH Helinski, Rebecca C Hood, Doris Gludovacz, Leo Mayr and Bart GJ Knols
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2008 1:19
  12. Human onchocerciasis or river blindness, caused by the filarial nematode Onchocerca volvulus, is currently controlled using the microfilaricidal drug, ivermectin. However, ivermectin does not kill adult O. volvul...

    Authors: Barend M deC Bronsvoort, Benjamin L Makepeace, Alfons Renz, Vincent N Tanya, Lawrence Fleckenstein, David Ekale and Alexander J Trees
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2008 1:18
  13. An important advantage of pyrethroid-treated nets over untreated nets is that once nets become worn or holed a pyrethroid treatment will normally restore protection. The capacity of pyrethroids to kill or irri...

    Authors: SR Irish, R N'Guessan, PM Boko, C Metonnou, A Odjo, M Akogbeto and M Rowland
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2008 1:17
  14. Lutzomyia longipalpis s.l. (Diptera: Psychodidae) is the principal vector of Leishmania infantum chagasi in the Americas, and constitutes a complex of species. Various studies have suggested an incipient speciati...

    Authors: Iliano V Coutinho-Abreu, Ivan V Sonoda, Jose A Fonseca, Marcia A Melo, Valdir Q Balbino and Marcelo Ramalho-Ortigão
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2008 1:16
  15. Reliable and consistent methods are required for the identification and classification of freshwater snails belonging to the genus Bulinus (Gastropoda, Planorbidae) which act as intermediate hosts for schistosome...

    Authors: Richard A Kane, J Russell Stothard, Aidan M Emery and David Rollinson
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2008 1:15
  16. Mass drug administration (MDA) has been one of the strategies endorsed by the World Health Assembly for lymphatic filariasis (LF) elimination. Many factors, however, affect the acceptability of the MDA in the ...

    Authors: Maria Lourdes E Amarillo, Vicente Y Belizario Jr, Jewel T Sadiang-abay, Stephanie Anne M Sison and Ariane Marie S Dayag
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2008 1:14
  17. Lymphatic filariasis, caused by Wuchereria bancrofti, Brugia malayi and B. timori is a public health problem of considerable magnitude of the tropics and subtropics. Presently 1.3 billion people are at risk of ly...

    Authors: Goutam Chandra
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2008 1:13
  18. Human and canine leishmaniasis (CanL) by Leishmania infantum is endemic in Italy, with a high percentage of infected asymptomatic animals. However, the immune response mechanisms underlying the clinical presentat...

    Authors: Maria A Panaro, Olga Brandonisio, Donato de Caprariis, Pasqua Cavallo, Antonia Cianciulli, Vincenzo Mitolo and Domenico Otranto
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2008 1:10
  19. In the context of a Sterile Insect Technique programme, the occurrence of multiple insemination in the malaria mosquito Anopheles arabiensis Patton was studied using a novel labelling system with the stable isoto...

    Authors: Michelle EH Helinski, Rebecca C Hood and Bart GJ Knols
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2008 1:9
  20. Ticks of the species Ixodes ricinus are the main vectors of Lyme Borreliosis and Tick-borne Encephalitis – two rapidly emerging diseases in Europe. Repellents provide a practical means of protection against tick ...

    Authors: Ulrich Schwantes, Hans Dautel and Gerd Jung
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2008 1:8
  21. Ticks are vectors for a variety of viral, bacterial and parasitic diseases in human and domestic animals. To survive and reproduce ticks feed on host blood, yet our understanding of the intestinal proteolytic ...

    Authors: Daniel Sojka, Zdeněk Franta, Martin Horn, Ondřej Hajdušek, Conor R Caffrey, Michael Mareš and Petr Kopáček
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2008 1:7
  22. Trypanosoma brucei undergoes genetic exchange in its insect vector, the tsetse fly, by an unknown mechanism. The difficulties of working with this experimental system of genetic exchange have hampered investigati...

    Authors: Wendy Gibson, Lori Peacock, Vanessa Ferris, Katherine Williams and Mick Bailey
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2008 1:4
  23. The prehistory of African trypanosomiasis indicates that the disease may have been an important selective factor in the evolution of hominids. Ancient history and medieval history reveal that African trypanoso...

    Authors: Dietmar Steverding
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2008 1:3
  24. Mathematical models developed for describing the dynamics of transmission, infection, disease and control of lymphatic filariasis (LF) gained momentum following the 1997 World Health Assembly resolution and th...

    Authors: Subramanian Swaminathan, Pani P Subash, Ravi Rengachari, Krishnamoorthy Kaliannagounder and Das K Pradeep
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2008 1:2

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