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  2. In more recent years, international travel with cats has increased. The distribution of cat parasites can change with this movement. Already, subtropical and tropical parasites have been reported by veterinari...

    Authors: Jennifer Ketzis, Helle Bork-Larsen, Jernea Bustria and Anne Conan

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:488

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  3. Some tick species are invasive and of high consequence to public and veterinary health. Socioeconomic development of rural parts of the USA was enabled partly through the eradication by 1943 of cattle fever ti...

    Authors: Hsiao-Hsuan Wang, William E. Grant, Pete D. Teel, Kimberly H. Lohmeyer and Adalberto A. Pérez de León

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:487

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  4. Freshwater snails are the intermediate hosts of a large variety of trematode flukes such as Schistosoma mansoni responsible for one of the most important parasitic diseases caused by helminths, affecting 67 milli...

    Authors: Ronaldo de Carvalho Augusto, Nadjiya Merad, Anne Rognon, Benjamin Gourbal, Cédric Bertrand, Nassim Djabou and David Duval

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:486

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  5. The head louse, Pediculus humanus capitis, is the most important ectoparasite causing many health problems. Several linkages are presented for this parasite, each representing a particular geographical distributi...

    Authors: Mohammad Bagher Ghavami, Maryam Ghanbari, Sanaz Panahi and Behrooz Taghiloo

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:485

    Content type: Research

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  6. Changes to Australia’s climate and land-use patterns could result in expanded spatial and temporal distributions of endemic mosquito vectors including Aedes and Culex species that transmit medically important arb...

    Authors: Eugene T. Madzokere, Willow Hallgren, Oz Sahin, Julie A. Webster, Cameron E. Webb, Brendan Mackey and Lara J. Herrero

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:484

    Content type: Review

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  7. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Antoine Mignotte, Claire Garros, Laetitia Gardès, Thomas Balenghien, Maxime Duhayon, Ignace Rakotoarivony, Laura Tabourin, Léa Poujol, Bruno Mathieu, Adolfo Ibañez-Justicia, Ahmet Deniz, Aleksandar Cvetkovikj, Bethan V. Purse, David W. Ramilo, Despoina Stougiou, Doreen Werner…

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:483

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    The original article was published in Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:265

  8. Wild carnivores such as the grey wolf (Canis lupus), red fox (Vulpes vulpes) and golden jackal (Canis aureus) are recognized hosts of Dirofilaria immitis. However, few studies have focused on their actual role in...

    Authors: Barbara Moroni, Luca Rossi, Pier Giuseppe Meneguz, Riccardo Orusa, Simona Zoppi, Serena Robetto, Francesca Marucco and Paolo Tizzani

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:482

    Content type: Short report

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  9. Aedes spp. are responsible for the transmission of many arboviruses, which contribute to rising human morbidity and mortality worldwide. The Aedes aegypti mosquito is a main vector for chikungunya, dengue and yel...

    Authors: Monica Campos, Daniel Ward, Raika Francesca Morales, Ana Rita Gomes, Keily Silva, Nuno Sepúlveda, Lara Ferrero Gomez, Taane G. Clark and Susana Campino

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:481

    Content type: Research

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  10. Acanthamoeba spp. are cosmopolitan protozoans that cause infections in the brain, as well as extracerebral infections in the cornea, lungs and skin. Little is known about the mechanisms of the immunological respo...

    Authors: Karolina Kot, Danuta Kosik-Bogacka, Agnieszka Wojtkowiak-Giera, Agnieszka Kolasa-Wołosiuk and Natalia Łanocha-Arendarczyk

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:480

    Content type: Research

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  11. Since the huge epidemic of Zika virus (ZIKV) in Brazil in 2015, questions were raised to understand which mosquito species could transmit the virus. Aedes aegypti has been described as the main vector. However, o...

    Authors: Uros Glavinic, Jasmin Varga, Anca Ioana Paslaru, Jeannine Hauri, Paul Torgerson, Francis Schaffner and Eva Veronesi

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:479

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  12. Ticks can transmit numerous tick-borne pathogens and cause a huge economic loss to the livestock industry. Tick vaccines can contribute to the prevention of tick-borne diseases by inhibiting tick infestation o...

    Authors: Seung-Hun Lee, Jixu Li, Paul Franck Adjou Moumouni, Kiyoshi Okado, Weiqing Zheng, Mingming Liu, Shengwei Ji, Soochong Kim, Rika Umemiya-Shirafuji and Xuenan Xuan

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:478

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  13. Iron plays essential roles in the pathogenesis and proliferation of Trichomonas vaginalis, the causative agent of the most prevalent non-viral human sexually transmitted infection. We previously demonstrated that...

    Authors: Wei-Hung Cheng, Kuo-Yang Huang, Seow-Chin Ong, Fu-Man Ku, Po-Jung Huang, Chi-Ching Lee, Yuan-Ming Yeh, Rose Lin, Cheng-Hsun Chiu and Petrus Tang

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:477

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  14. Ticks are increasingly acknowledged as significant vectors for a wide array of pathogens in urban environments with reports of abundant tick populations in recreational areas. The study aims to contribute to a...

    Authors: Silvia-Diana Borşan, Andra Toma-Naic, Áron Péter, Attila D. Sándor, Cosmin Peștean and Andrei-Daniel Mihalca

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:476

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  15. Microsporidians are opportunistic pathogens with a wide range of hosts, including invertebrates, vertebrates and even humans. Microsporidians possess a highly specialized invasion structure, the polar tube. Wh...

    Authors: Qing Lv, Lijun Wang, Youpeng Fan, Xianzhi Meng, Keke Liu, Bingqian Zhou, Jie Chen, Guoqing Pan, Mengxian Long and Zeyang Zhou

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:475

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  16. The control of schistosomiasis has been centered to date on a single drug, praziquantel, with shortcomings including treatment failure, reinfection, and emergence of drug resistance. Drug repurposing, combinat...

    Authors: Maha M. Eissa, Mervat Z. El-Azzouni, Labiba K. El-Khordagui, Amany Abdel Bary, Riham M. El-Moslemany and Sara A. Abdel Salam

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:474

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  17. The goals of this retrospective study were to estimate parasite positivity in samples from cats using zinc sulfate fecal flotation by centrifugation (“centrifugation”) and coproantigen and examine trends with ...

    Authors: Sarah Sweet, Donald Szlosek, Donald McCrann, Michael Coyne, David Kincaid and Evan Hegarty

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:473

    Content type: Research

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  18. Plasmodium knowlesi is a significant cause of human malaria in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. Only one study has been previously undertaken in Sarawak to identify vectors of P. knowlesi, where Anopheles latens was in...

    Authors: Joshua X. D. Ang, Khamisah A. Kadir, Dayang S. A. Mohamad, Asmad Matusop, Paul C. S. Divis, Khatijah Yaman and Balbir Singh

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:472

    Content type: Research

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  19. This letter comments on the article “The treatment of sarcoptic mange in wildlife: a systematic review” published in Parasites & Vectors 2019, 12:99, and discusses the limitations in the use of endectocides for s...

    Authors: Barbara Moroni, Marta Valldeperes, Emmanuel Serrano, Jorge Ramón López-Olvera, Santiago Lavín and Luca Rossi

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:471

    Content type: Letter to the Editor

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  20. Alpha-gal is an oligosaccharide implicated in delayed anaphylaxis following red meat consumption. Exposure to tick bites has been correlated with development of an allergic response to alpha-gal. However, evid...

    Authors: Cedar L. Mitchell, Feng-Chang Lin, Meagan Vaughn, Charles S. Apperson, Steven R. Meshnick and Scott P. Commins

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:470

    Content type: Short report

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  21. In a warmer and more globally connected Arctic, vector-borne pathogens of zoonotic importance may be increasing in prevalence in native wildlife. Recently, Bartonella henselae, the causative agent of cat scratch ...

    Authors: Kayla J. Buhler, Ricardo G. Maggi, Julie Gailius, Terry D. Galloway, Neil B. Chilton, Ray T. Alisauskas, Gustaf Samelius, Émilie Bouchard and Emily J. Jenkins

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:469

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  22. Dengue viruses (DENV) can be transmitted from an adult female Aedes aegypti mosquito through the germ line to the progeny; however, there is uncertainty if this occurs at a frequency that is epidemiologically sig...

    Authors: Daniela da Silva Goncalves, Kien Duong Thi Hue, Vi Tran Thuy, Nhu Vu Tuyet, Giang Nguyen Thi, Van Huynh Thi Thuy, Trang Huynh Thi Xuan, Dui Le Thi, Long Thi Vo, Huynh Le Anh Huy, Nguyen Thi Van Thuy, Bridget A. Wills, Phong Nguyen Thanh, Cameron P. Simmons and Lauren B. Carrington

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:468

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  23. Phlebotomus pedifer is the vector for Leishmania aethiopica causing cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) in southwestern Ethiopia. Previous research on the transmission dynamics of CL resulted in recommendations for vect...

    Authors: Myrthe Pareyn, Anneleen Rutten, Behailu Merdekios, Ronja E. M. Wedegärtner, Nigatu Girma, Leo Regelbrugge, Simon Shibru and Herwig Leirs

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:467

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  24. A new generation of IRS insecticides which can provide improved and prolonged control of pyrethroid-resistant malaria vector populations are being developed. Fludora® Fusion is a new IRS insecticide containing...

    Authors: Augustin Fongnikin, Nadia Houeto, Abel Agbevo, Abibath Odjo, Thomas Syme, Raphael N’Guessan and Corine Ngufor

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:466

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  25. The increasing resistance to currently available insecticides in the malaria vector, Anopheles mosquitoes, hampers their use as an effective vector control strategy for the prevention of malaria transmission. The...

    Authors: Eunice Oluwatobiloba Adedeji, Olubanke Olujoke Ogunlana, Segun Fatumo, Thomas Beder, Yvonne Ajamma, Rainer Koenig and Ezekiel Adebiyi

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:465

    Content type: Review

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  26. Arboviruses are a growing public health concern in Europe, with both endemic and exotic arboviruses expected to spread further into novel areas in the next decades. Predicting where future outbreaks will occur...

    Authors: Helen Joan Esser, Yorick Liefting, Adolfo Ibáñez-Justicia, Henk van der Jeugd, Chris A. M. van Turnhout, Arjan Stroo, Chantal B. E. M. Reusken, Marion P. G. Koopmans and Willem Fred de Boer

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:464

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  27. The Culicoides fauna of Algeria has been historically investigated, leading to the description of many new species by Kieffer in the 1920s, Clastrier in the 1950s or Callot in the 1960s and to a comprehensive in...

    Authors: Mounira Belkharchouche, Selima Berchi, Bruno Mathieu, Ignace Rakotoarivony, Maxime Duhayon, Thierry Baldet and Thomas Balenghien

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:463

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  28. Effective and sustainable worm control in horses would benefit from detailed information about the current regional occurrence of tapeworms. Different diagnostic methods are currently available to detect Anoploce...

    Authors: Laura Jürgenschellert, Jürgen Krücken, Corrine J. Austin, Kirsty L. Lightbody, Eric Bousquet and Georg von Samson-Himmelstjerna

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:462

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  29. More than 170 species of tabanids are known in Europe, with many occurring only in limited areas or having become very rare in the last decades. They continue to spread various diseases in animals and are resp...

    Authors: Dorian D. Dörge, Sarah Cunze and Sven Klimpel

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:461

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  30. The ability of infective larvae of cattle gastrointestinal nematode (GIN) species to overwinter on pastures in northerly climatic zones with very cold dry winters is poorly understood. This is an important kno...

    Authors: Tong Wang, Russell W. Avramenko, Elizabeth M. Redman, Janneke Wit, John S. Gilleard and Douglas D. Colwell

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:458

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  31. Mosquitoes are the deadliest animals in the world. Their ability to carry and spread diseases to humans causes millions of deaths every year. Due to the lack of efficient vaccines, the control of mosquito-born...

    Authors: Zhaoyang Tang, Hanano Yamada, Carina Kraupa, Sumejja Canic, Núria Busquets, Sandra Talavera, Davy Jiolle, Marc J. B. Vreysen, Jérémy Bouyer and Adly M. M. Abd-Alla

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:460

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  32. Equine piroplasmosis (EP) is a tick-borne hemoprotozoan disease of equids, caused by Theileria equi and Babesia caballi. Equine piroplasmosis represents a serious challenge to the equine industry due to important...

    Authors: Shaowei Zhao, Hao Wang, Shuang Zhang, Suzhu Xie, Hang Li, Xuancheng Zhang and Lijun Jia

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:459

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  33. The worldwide increased difficulty to combat gastrointestinal nematode (GIN) infection in sheep, due to progressing anthelmintic resistance (AR), calls for an enhanced and standardized implementation of early ...

    Authors: Antonio Bosco, Jan Kießler, Alessandra Amadesi, Marian Varady, Barbara Hinney, Davide Ianniello, Maria Paola Maurelli, Giuseppe Cringoli and Laura Rinaldi

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:457

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  34. In 2013, sarcoptic mange, caused by Sarcoptes scabiei mites, precipitated a catastrophic decline of the formerly stable urban population of endangered San Joaquin kit foxes (Vulpes macrotis mutica) in Bakersfield...

    Authors: Jaime L. Rudd, Deana L. Clifford, Brian L. Cypher, Joshua M. Hull, A. Jane Riner and Janet E. Foley

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:456

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  35. The protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi circulates in semiarid areas of northeastern Brazil in distinct ecotopes (sylvatic, peridomestic and domestic) where Triatoma brasiliensis Neiva, 1911 is the most important Chagas ...

    Authors: Edgard H. Kamimura, Maria Carolina Viana, Maurício Lilioso, Fernanda H. M. Fontes, Dayane Pires-Silva, Carolina Valença-Barbosa, Ana L. Carbajal-de-la-Fuente, Elaine Folly-Ramos, Vera N. Solferin, Patricia J. Thyssen, Jane Costa and Carlos E. Almeida

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:455

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  36. Modulation of the host immune response by nematode parasites has been widely reported. Rhodaneses (thiosulfate: cyanide sulfurtransferases) are present in a wide range of organisms, such as archaea, bacteria, ...

    Authors: Yujian Wang, Muhammad Ehsan, Jianmei Huang, Kalibixiati Aimulajiang, RuoFeng Yan, XiaoKai Song, LiXin Xu and XiangRui Li

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:454

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  37. Benzimidazole resistance is associated with isotype-1 β-tubulin gene F200Y, E198A and F167Y SNPs. In this study, the recently described polymorphism E198L was reported and analysed in Teladorsagia circumcincta.

    Authors: María Martínez-Valladares, Elora Valderas-García, Javier Gandasegui, Philip Skuce, Alison Morrison, Verónica Castilla Gómez de Agüero, Maria Cambra-Pellejà, Rafael Balaña-Fouce and Francisco A. Rojo-Vázquez

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:453

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  38. East Coast fever (ECF) caused by Theileria parva is endemic in Rwanda. In this study, the antigenic and genetic diversity of T. parva coupled with immunization and field challenge were undertaken to provide evide...

    Authors: David Kalenzi Atuhaire, Walter Muleya, Victor Mbao, Thomas Bazarusanga, Isidore Gafarasi, Jeremy Salt, Boniface Namangala and Antony Jim Musoke

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:452

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  39. Hepatic granuloma formation and fibrosis as the consequence of tissue entrapped eggs produced by female schistosomes characterize the pathology of Schistosoma japonicum infection. It has been proposed that fucoid...

    Authors: Xueqi Bai, Maining Li, Xinyue Wang, Hao Chang, Yangyue Ni, Chen Li, Kaiyue He, Huiquan Wang, Yuxuan Yang, Tian Tian, Min Hou, Minjun Ji and Zhipeng Xu

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:451

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  41. Neospora caninum is an obligate intracellular protozoan that causes neosporosis, N. caninum infection is a major cause of abortion in cattle worldwide. Currently, specific treatment for neosporosis is not availab...

    Authors: Lu Li, Xiao-Cen Wang, Peng-Tao Gong, Nan Zhang, Xu Zhang, Shan Li, Xin Li, Shao-Xiong Liu, Xiao-Xu Zhang, Wei Li, Jian-Hua Li and Xi-Chen Zhang

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:449

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  42. The Australian paralysis tick, Ixodes holocyclus, causes tick paralysis in dogs and cats in the eastern coastal regions of Australia. Prevention is the best option to protect dogs against this potentially fatal d...

    Authors: Raj Packianathan, Andrew Hodge, Natalie Bruellke, Chrissie Jackson and Steven Maeder

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:448

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  43. Wildlife species carry a remarkable diversity of trypanosomes. The detection of trypanosome infection in native Australian fauna is central to understanding their diversity and host-parasite associations. The ...

    Authors: Ayda Susana Ortiz-Baez, Kate Cousins, John-Sebastian Eden, Wei-Shan Chang, Erin Harvey, John H.-O. Pettersson, Scott Carver, Adam Polkinghorne, Jan Šlapeta, Karrie Rose and Edward C. Holmes

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:447

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  44. Vector control with Bacillus sphaericus (Bs) is an effective way to block the transmission of malaria. However, in practical application of Bs agents, a sublethal dose effect was often caused by insufficient dosi...

    Authors: Shasha Yu, Pan Wang, Jie Qin, Hong Zheng, Jing Wang, Tingting Liu, Xuesen Yang and Ying Wang

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:446

    Content type: Research

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  46. Mosquitoes are vectors of many tropical diseases. Understanding the ecology of local mosquito vectors, such as species composition, distributions, population dynamics, and species diversity is important for de...

    Authors: Yiji Li, Guofa Zhou, Saifeng Zhong, Xiaoming Wang, Daibin Zhong, Elizabeth Hemming-Schroeder, Guohui Yi, Fengyang Fu, Faxing Fu, Liwang Cui, Guzhen Cui and Guiyun Yan

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:444

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  48. The flatworms (Lophotrochozoa: Platyhelminthes) are one of the major phyla of invertebrates but their interrelationships are still not well understood including unravelling the most closely related taxon of th...

    Authors: Larisa G. Poddubnaya, Roman Kuchta and Tomáš Scholz

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:442

    Content type: Research

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  49. Sand flies are vectors of Leishmania spp., the causative agents of leishmaniasis in vertebrates, including man. The sand fly saliva contains powerful pharmacologically active substances that prevent hemostasis an...

    Authors: Rafael Nacif-Pimenta, Luciana C. Pinto, Vera Volfova, Petr Volf, Paulo F. P. Pimenta and Nagila F. C. Secundino

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:441

    Content type: Research

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  50. Although Plasmodium parasites and intestinal helminths share common endemic areas, the mechanisms of these co-infections on the host immune response remain not fully understood. Liver involvement in severe Plasmo...

    Authors: Xu Mei, Zhanhong Ye, Yuqing Chang, Shiguang Huang, Jianping Song and Fangli Lu

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:440

    Content type: Research

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