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The immune system of adult mosquitoes has received significant attention because of the ability of females to vector disease-causing pathogens while ingesting blood meals. However, few studies have focused on ...
Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:367
Published on: 1 August 2017
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An unusual increase of human leishmaniasis cases due to Leishmania infantum is occurring in an urban area of southwestern Madrid, Spain, since 2010. Entomological surveys have shown that Phlebotomus perniciosus i...
Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:368
Published on: 1 August 2017
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Schistosoma haematobium is the causative agent of human urogenital schistosomiasis affecting ~112 million people in Africa and the Middle East. The parasite is transmitted by snails of...
Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:364
Published on: 1 August 2017
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Better knowledge of the innate immune system of insects will improve our understanding of mosquitoes as potential vectors of diverse pathogens. The ubiquitously expressed 14-3-3 protein family is evolutionaril...
Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:362
Published on: 1 August 2017
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African catfishes of the families Bagridae and Clariidae are known to be parasitized with monogeneans of Quadriacanthus Paperna, 1961 (Dactylogyridae). The genus remains taxonomically challenging due to its speci...
Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:361
Published on: 1 August 2017
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Alternating wet and dry seasons may play an important role in the acquisition and distribution of Blastocystis subtype infection in the tropics. This cross-sectional study was therefore conducted to provide the p...
Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:360
Published on: 31 July 2017
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Ovine anaplasmosis is a tick-borne disease that is caused by Anaplasma ovis in sheep and goats. The pathogen is widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. At present, diagnosis of the di...
Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:359
Published on: 28 July 2017
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Aedes aegypti, the major vector of dengue, breeds in domestic water containers. The development of immature mosquitoes in such containers is influenced by various environmental, ecolog...
Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:356
Published on: 27 July 2017
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Mauritania is at the fringe of transmission of human schistosomiasis, which mainly occurs in the southern and southeastern parts of the country. This study aimed to assess the influence of rainfall seasonality...
Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:353
Published on: 26 July 2017
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Chloroquine (CQ) was the cornerstone of anti-malarial treatment in Africa for almost 50 years, but has been widely withdrawn due to the emergence and spread of resistance. Recent reports have suggested that CQ...
Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:355
Published on: 26 July 2017
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Dirofilaria immitis causes heartworm disease, a chronic and potentially fatal cardiopulmonary disease which mainly affects dogs and cats. It is present in most of Spain, due to favoura...
Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:354
Published on: 26 July 2017
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Schistosomiasis, also generally known as snail fever, is a parasitic disease caused by trematode flatworms of the genus Schistosoma. In Hong Kong and mainland China, the freshwater snail Biomphalaria straminea ha...
Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:351
Published on: 25 July 2017
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Lutzomyia longipalpis, the vector for the causal agent of visceral leishmaniasis (VL), has extended its distribution in the southern cone in the Americas. The first urban record of Lu....
Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:352
Published on: 25 July 2017
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Excretory-secretory products (ESPs) released by helminths are well-known to regulate T cell responses in the host. However, their direct influence in the differentiation of naïve T cells, and especially B cell...
Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:348
Published on: 21 July 2017
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Taenia solium and Taenia saginata are zoonotic parasites of public health importance. Data on their occurrence in humans and animals in western Europe are incomplete and fragmented. In...
Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:349
Published on: 21 July 2017
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Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:350
Published on: 21 July 2017
The original article was published in Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:11
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The flea Xenopsylla cheopis (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae) is a vector of plague. Despite this insect’s medical importance, especially in Madagascar where plague is endemic, little is known about the organization of i...
Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:347
Published on: 20 July 2017
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The increasing number of reports of human infections by Strongyloides stercoralis from a range of European countries over the last 20 years has spurred the interest of the scientific community towards this parasi...
Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:345
Published on: 20 July 2017
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Zika disease has transformed into a serious global health problem due to the rapid spread of the arbovirus and alarming severity including congenital complications, microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome. Zi...
Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:346
Published on: 20 July 2017
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Despite large-scale reductions in Chagas disease prevalence across Central and South America, Trypanosoma cruzi infection remains a considerable public health problem in the Gran Chaco region where vector-borne t...
Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:344
Published on: 19 July 2017
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The cat flea, Ctenocephalides felis felis (C. felis), is a cosmopolitan hematophagous ectoparasite, and is considered to be the most prevalent flea species in both Europe and the USA. Clinical signs frequently as...
Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:341
Published on: 19 July 2017
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The transmission of malaria is heterogeneous, and varies due to altitude. The information on whether the transmission of malaria is indigenous or imported to highland areas is scarce. Therefore, this study aim...
Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:343
Published on: 19 July 2017
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Plasmodium knowlesi is primarily responsible for zoonotic malaria in several Southeast Asian countries. Precise identification of the parasite in the blood of patients presently relies...
Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:342
Published on: 19 July 2017
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Plasmodium knowlesi is found in macaques and is the only major zoonotic malaria to affect humans. Transmission of P. knowlesi between people and macaques depends on the host species pr...
Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:338
Published on: 18 July 2017
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Over 60 % of human emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic, and there is growing evidence of the zooanthroponotic transmission of diseases from humans to livestock and wildlife species, with major implicatio...
Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:340
Published on: 18 July 2017
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