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  1. Synanthropic flies play a considerable role in the transmission of pathogenic and non-pathogenic microorganisms. In this work, the essential oil (EO) of two aromatic plants, Artemisia annua and Artemisia ...

    Authors: Stefano Bedini, Guido Flamini, Francesca Cosci, Roberta Ascrizzi, Maria Cristina Echeverria, Lucia Guidi, Marco Landi, Andrea Lucchi and Barbara Conti
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:80
  2. Ticks, triatomines, mosquitoes and sand flies comprise a large number of haematophagous arthropods considered vectors of human infectious diseases. While consuming blood to obtain the nutrients necessary to ca...

    Authors: Paula Beatriz Santiago, Carla Nunes de Araújo, Flávia Nader Motta, Yanna Reis Praça, Sébastien Charneau, Izabela M. Dourado Bastos and Jaime M. Santana
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:79
  3. Aedes aegypti is an important vector for arboviroses and widely distributed throughout the world. Climatic factors can influence vector population dynamics and, consequently, disease t...

    Authors: Danielle Andreza da Cruz Ferreira, Carolin Marlen Degener, Cecilia de Almeida Marques-Toledo, Maria Mercedes Bendati, Liane Oliveira Fetzer, Camila P. Teixeira and Álvaro Eduardo Eiras
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:78
  4. Cattle persistently infected with Babesia bovis are reservoirs for intra- and inter-herd transmission. Since B. bovis is considered a persistent infection, developing a reliable, high-throughput assay that detect...

    Authors: Chungwon J. Chung, Carlos E. Suarez, Carey L. Bandaranayaka-Mudiyanselage, Chandima-Bandara Bandaranayaka-Mudiyanselage, Joanna Rzepka, TJ Heiniger, Grace Chung, Stephen S. Lee, Ethan Adams, Grace Yun and Susan J. Waldron
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:77
  5. In recent decades, throughout the Amazon Basin, landscape modification contributing to profound ecological change has proceeded at an unprecedented rate. Deforestation that accompanies human activities can sig...

    Authors: Melina Campos, Jan E. Conn, Diego Peres Alonso, Joseph M. Vinetz, Kevin J. Emerson and Paulo Eduardo Martins Ribolla
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:76
  6. Anopheles sinensis is a primary vector for Plasmodium vivax malaria in most regions of China. A comprehensive understanding of genetic variation and structure of the mosquito would be ...

    Authors: Xinyu Feng, Libin Huang, Lin Lin, Manni Yang and Yajun Ma
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:75

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  7. Aedes (Finlaya) koreicus (Edwards) is a mosquito that has recently entered Europe from Asia. This species is considered a potential threat to newly colonized territories, but little is...

    Authors: Silvia Ciocchetta, Jonathan M. Darbro, Francesca D. Frentiu, Fabrizio Montarsi, Gioia Capelli, John G. Aaskov and Gregor J. Devine
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:74
  8. The pork tapeworm, Taenia solium, and associated human infections, taeniasis, cysticercosis and neurocysticercosis, are serious public health problems, especially in developing countries. The World Health Organiz...

    Authors: Peter Winskill, Wendy E. Harrison, Michael D. French, Matthew A. Dixon, Bernadette Abela-Ridder and María-Gloria Basáñez
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:73
  9. Soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections with Ascaris lumbricoides, hookworm and Trichuris trichiura affect large parts of the world’s population. For the implementation of national STH control programs, e.g. p...

    Authors: Wendelin Moser, Niklaus Daniel Labhardt, Molisana Cheleboi, Josephine Muhairwe and Jennifer Keiser
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:72
  10. Global warming and other ecological changes have facilitated the expansion of Ixodes ricinus tick populations. Ixodes ricinus is the most important carrier of vector-borne pathogens in Europe, transmitting viruse...

    Authors: Wibke J. Cramaro, Oliver E. Hunewald, Lesley Bell-Sakyi and Claude P. Muller
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:71
  11. Taxonomic identification of ticks obtained during a longitudinal survey of the critically endangered marsupial, Bettongia penicillata Gray, 1837 (woylie, brush-tailed bettong) revealed a new species of Ixodes Lat...

    Authors: Amanda Ash, Aileen Elliot, Stephanie Godfrey, Halina Burmej, Mohammad Yazid Abdad, Amy Northover, Adrian Wayne, Keith Morris, Peta Clode, Alan Lymbery and R. C. Andrew Thompson
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:70
  12. Indoor residual spraying is key to dengue control in Cairns and other parts of northern Queensland, Australia, where Aedes aegypti is prevalent, but the strategy faces challenges with regards to slow application ...

    Authors: Jonathan M. Darbro, M. Odwell Muzari, Arthur Giblin, Rebecca M. Adamczyk, Scott A. Ritchie and Gregor J. Devine
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:69
  13. The genome of the apicomplexan parasite Cystoisospora suis (syn. Isospora suis) has recently been sequenced and annotated, opening the possibility for the identification of novel therapeutic targets against cysto...

    Authors: Aruna Shrestha, Nicola Palmieri, Ahmed Abd-Elfattah, Bärbel Ruttkowski, Marc Pagès and Anja Joachim
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:68
  14. Enoyl-CoA hydratase (MAOC) is required for the biosynthesis of the fatty acid-derive side chains of the ascaroside via peroxisome β-oxidation in the free-living nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. The derivative of ...

    Authors: Haojie Ding, Hengzhi Shi, Yu Shi, Xiaolu Guo, Xiuping Zheng, Xueqiu Chen, Qianjin Zhou, Yi Yang and Aifang Du
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:67
  15. Vertical transmission is one of the transmission routes for Babesia microti, the causative agent of the zoonotic disease, babesiosis. Congenital Babesia invasions have been recorded in laboratory mice, dogs and h...

    Authors: Katarzyna Tołkacz, Małgorzata Bednarska, Mohammed Alsarraf, Dorota Dwużnik, Maciej Grzybek, Renata Welc-Falęciak, Jerzy M. Behnke and Anna Bajer
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:66
  16. Environmental parasitology deals with the interactions between parasites and pollutants in the environment. Their sensitivity to pollutants and environmental disturbances makes many parasite taxa useful indica...

    Authors: Bernd Sures, Milen Nachev, Christian Selbach and David J. Marcogliese
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:65
  17. Wild hosts are commonly co-infected with complex, genetically diverse, pathogen communities. Competition is expected between genetically or ecologically similar pathogen strains which may influence patterns of...

    Authors: Evelyn C. Rynkiewicz, Julia Brown, Danielle M. Tufts, Ching-I Huang, Helge Kampen, Stephen J. Bent, Durland Fish and Maria A. Diuk-Wasser
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:64
  18. The midgut is the first barrier to dengue virus (DENV) infections of mosquitoes and therefore is a major bottleneck for the subsequent development of vector competence. However, the molecular mechanisms respon...

    Authors: Jianxin Su, Chunxiao Li, Yingmei Zhang, Ting Yan, Xiaojuan Zhu, Minghui Zhao, Dan Xing, Yande Dong, Xiaoxia Guo and Tongyan Zhao
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:63
  19. The dilution effect is the reduction in vector-borne pathogen transmission associated with the presence of diverse potential host species, some of which are incompetent. It is popularized as the notion that in...

    Authors: Rebecca S. Levine, David L. Hedeen, Meghan W. Hedeen, Gabriel L. Hamer, Daniel G. Mead and Uriel D. Kitron
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:62
  20. Little is known regarding tick-borne diseases in Mongolia, despite having 26% of the population still living nomadic pastoral lifestyles. A total of 1497 adult unfed ticks: 261 Ixodes persulcatus, 795 Dermacentor...

    Authors: Bazartseren Boldbaatar, Rui-Ruo Jiang, Michael E. von Fricken, Sukhbaatar Lkhagvatseren, Pagbajab Nymadawa, Bekhochir Baigalmaa, Ya-Wei Wang, Benjamin D. Anderson, Jia-Fu Jiang and Gregory C. Gray
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:61
  21. A spot-on spinetoram formulation (Cheristin®) was developed to eliminate fleas from infested cats. This paper describes three spinetoram studies: two for registration (Studies 1 and 2), and one comparing residual...

    Authors: Tandy Paarlberg, Joseph Winkle, Anthony J. Rumschlag, Lisa Marie Young, William G. Ryan and Daniel E. Snyder
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:59
  22. Triatoma infestans is the main vector of Trypanosoma cruzi in Bolivia. The species is present both in domestic and peridomestic structures of rural areas, and in wild ecotopes of the A...

    Authors: Jorge Espinoza Echeverria, Antonio Nogales Rodriguez, Mirko Rojas Cortez, Liléia Gonçalves Diotaiuti and David E. Gorla
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:58
  23. Fasciola gigantica, the tropical liver fluke, infects buffaloes in Asian and African countries and causes significant economic losses and poses public health threat in these countries....

    Authors: Fu-Kai Zhang, Xiao-Xuan Zhang, Hany M. Elsheikha, Jun-Jun He, Zhao-An Sheng, Wen-Bin Zheng, Jian-Gang Ma, Wei-Yi Huang, Ai-Jiang Guo and Xing-Quan Zhu
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:56
  24. Egg morphometrics in the Triatominae has proved to be informative for distinguishing tribes or genera, and has been based generally on traditional morphometrics. However, more resolution is required, allowing ...

    Authors: Soledad Santillán-Guayasamín, Anita G. Villacís, Mario J. Grijalva and Jean-Pierre Dujardin
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:55
  25. Bluetongue virus (BTV) is transmitted by Culicoides biting midges and causes bluetongue (BT), a clinical disease observed primarily in sheep. BT has a detrimental effect on subsistence farmers in India, where hyp...

    Authors: Rien De Keyser, Clare Cassidy, Swathi Laban, Prakash Gopal, John A. Pickett, Yarabolu K. Reddy, Minakshi Prasad, Gaya Prasad, Sreekumar Chirukandoth, Kandasamy Senthilven, Simon Carpenter and James G. Logan
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:54
  26. Polystomatid flatworms in chelonians are divided into three genera, i.e. Polystomoides Ward, 1917, Polystomoidella Price, 1939 and Neopolystoma Price, 1939, according to the number of haptoral hooks. Among the ab...

    Authors: Louis H. Du Preez, Mathieu Badets, Laurent Héritier and Olivier Verneau
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:53
  27. Giardia parasites cause gastrointestinal disease in humans, dogs, and many other animals worldwide. The treatment of dogs for giardiasis requires further investigation to ascertain lev...

    Authors: Mario Moron-Soto, Lilia Gutierrez, Héctor Sumano, Graciela Tapia and Yazmin Alcala-Canto
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:52
  28. Ticks attach to and penetrate their hosts’ skin and inactivate multiple components of host responses in order to acquire a blood meal. Infestation loads with the cattle tick, Rhipicephalus microplus, are heritabl...

    Authors: Alessandra Mara Franzin, Sandra Regina Maruyama, Gustavo Rocha Garcia, Rosane Pereira Oliveira, José Marcos Chaves Ribeiro, Richard Bishop, Antônio Augusto Mendes Maia, Daniela Dantas Moré, Beatriz Rossetti Ferreira and Isabel Kinney Ferreira de Miranda Santos
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:51
  29. Phagocyte-derived extracellular traps (ETs) were recently demonstrated mainly in vertebrate hosts as an important effector mechanism against invading parasites. In the present study we aimed to characterize ga...

    Authors: Malin K. Lange, Felipe Penagos-Tabares, Tamara Muñoz-Caro, Ulrich Gärtner, Helena Mejer, Roland Schaper, Carlos Hermosilla and Anja Taubert
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:50
  30. Miltefosine unresponsive and relapse cases of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) are increasingly being reported. However, there has been no laboratory confirmed reports of miltefosine resistance in VL. Here, we repo...

    Authors: Saumya Srivastava, Jyotsna Mishra, Anil Kumar Gupta, Amit Singh, Prem Shankar and Sarman Singh
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:49
  31. The Ehrlichia muris-like agent (EMLA) is a newly recognized human pathogen in the North Central United States. Although blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) have been identified as capable vectors, wild reservoi...

    Authors: Geoffrey E. Lynn, Jonathan D. Oliver, Ingrid Cornax, M. Gerard O’Sullivan and Ulrike G. Munderloh
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:48
  32. Members of the order Chlamydiales are known for their potential as human and veterinary bacterial pathogens. Despite this recognition, epidemiological factors such as routes of transmission are yet to be fully de...

    Authors: Delaney Burnard, Haylee Weaver, Amber Gillett, Joanne Loader, Cheyne Flanagan and Adam Polkinghorne
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:46
  33. A commonly used measure of malaria transmission intensity is the entomological inoculation rate (EIR), defined as the product of the human biting rate (HBR) and sporozoite infection rate (SIR). The EIR exclude...

    Authors: Smita Das, Mbanga Muleba, Jennifer C. Stevenson, Julia C. Pringle and Douglas E. Norris
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:45
  34. Mosquito-borne viruses (MBVs) and parasites (MBPs) are transmitted through hematophagous arthropods-mosquitoes to homoiothermous vertebrates. This study aims at developing a detection method to monitor the spr...

    Authors: Yingjie Zhang, Qiqi Liu, Biao Zhou, Xiaobo Wang, Suhong Chen and Shengqi Wang
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:44
  35. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the prevalence and infection intensity of intestinal parasites in different dog and cat populations in Crete, Greece, estimate the zoonotic risk and identify risk ...

    Authors: Despoina Kostopoulou, Edwin Claerebout, Dimitrios Arvanitis, Panagiota Ligda, Nikolaos Voutzourakis, Stijn Casaert and Smaragda Sotiraki
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:43
  36. Motivated by the first mathematical model for schistosomiasis proposed by Macdonald and Barbour’s classical schistosomiasis model tracking the dynamics of infected human population and infected snail hosts in ...

    Authors: Shu-Jing Gao, Hua-Hua Cao, Yu-Ying He, Yu-Jiang Liu, Xiang-Yu Zhang, Guo-Jing Yang and Xiao-Nong Zhou
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:42
  37. Zika virus (ZIKV) infection is emerging globally, currently causing outbreaks in the Caribbean, and Central and South America, and putting travellers to affected countries at risk. Model-based estimates for th...

    Authors: Nicholas H. Ogden, Aamir Fazil, David Safronetz, Michael A. Drebot, Justine Wallace, Erin E. Rees, Kristina Decock and Victoria Ng
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:41
  38. In the past, immune responses to several Brugia malayi immunodominant antigens have been characterized in filaria-infected populations; however, little is known regarding Wolbachia proteins. We earlier cloned and...

    Authors: Ruchi Jha, Mamta Gangwar, Dhanvantri Chahar, Anand Setty Balakrishnan, Mahendra Pal Singh Negi and Shailja Misra-Bhattacharya
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:40
  39. Rhipicephalus sanguineus belongs to a complex of hard tick species with high veterinary-medical significance. Recently, new phylogenetic units have been discovered within R. sanguineus

    Authors: Sándor Hornok, Attila D. Sándor, Snežana Tomanović, Relja Beck, Gianluca D’Amico, Jenő Kontschán, Nóra Takács, Tamás Görföl, Mohammed Lamine Bendjeddou, Gábor Földvári and Róbert Farkas
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:39
  40. Basáñez MG, Anderson RM, Editors: Mathematical Models for Neglected Tropical Diseases: Essential Tools for Control and Elimination, Part B, Volume 94, Advances in Parasitology, Academic ...

    Authors: Robert C. Spear
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:38
  41. Orally administered fluralaner effectively controls fleas and ticks on dogs for 12 weeks. This study evaluates the flea control efficacy achieved with topically applied fluralaner in dogs.

    Authors: Cheyney Meadows, Frank Guerino and Fangshi Sun
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:36
  42. Although mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) are important disease vectors, information on their biodiversity in Mauritania is scarce and very dispersed in the literature. Data from the scientific literature gathe...

    Authors: Aichetou Mint Mohamed Lemine, Mohamed Aly Ould Lemrabott, Moina Hasni Ebou, Khadijetou Mint Lekweiry, Mohamed Salem Ould Ahmedou Salem, Khyarhoum Ould Brahim, Mohamed Ouldabdallahi Moukah, Issa Nabiyoullahi Ould Bouraya, Cecile Brengues, Jean-François Trape, Leonardo Basco, Hervé Bogreau, Frédéric Simard, Ousmane Faye and Ali Ould Mohamed Salem Boukhary
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:35
  43. Galactofuranose is an essential cell surface component present in bacteria, fungi and several nematodes such as Caenorhabditis spp., Brugia spp., Onchocerca spp. and Strongyloides spp. This sugar maintains the in...

    Authors: Sweta Misra, Jyoti Gupta and Shailja Misra-Bhattacharya
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:34
  44. Genetic analyses of the malaria parasite population and its temporal and spatial dynamics could provide an assessment of the effectiveness of disease control strategies. The genetic diversity of Plasmodium falcip...

    Authors: Makhtar Niang, Laty G. Thiam, Cheikh Loucoubar, Abdourahmane Sow, Bacary D. Sadio, Mawlouth Diallo, Amadou A. Sall and Aissatou Toure-Balde
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:33
  45. The viruses transmitted by Aedes aegypti, including dengue and Zika viruses, are rapidly expanding in geographic range and as a threat to public health. In response, control programs are increasingly turning to t...

    Authors: Kara Fikrig, Brian J. Johnson, Durland Fish and Scott A. Ritchie
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:32
  46. The excessive and uncontrolled use of anthelmintics, e.g. ivermectin (IVM) for the treatment of livestock parasites has led to widespread resistance in gastrointestinal nematodes, such as Haemonchus contortus. Th...

    Authors: Xiaoping Luo, Xiaona Shi, Chunxiu Yuan, Min Ai, Cheng Ge, Min Hu, Xingang Feng and Xiaoye Yang
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:31

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