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  1. Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is one of the endemic and neglected diseases known to exist in Ethiopian highlands. However, little is known about its epidemiological characteristics. Hence, this study was initia...

    Authors: Abrha Bsrat, Nega Berhe, Meshesha Balkew, Mekonnen Yohannes, Tsigemariam Teklu, Endalamaw Gadisa, Girmay Medhin and Adugna Abera
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:149
  2. Neurocysticercosis (NCC), which is caused by accidental ingestion of eggs of the pork tapeworm, Taenia solium, was common in Bali, Indonesia until the early 1990s. However, improved education on hygiene and sanit...

    Authors: Toni Wandra, Kadek Swastika, Nyoman S Dharmawan, Ivan Elisabeth Purba, I Made Sudarmaja, Takahiko Yoshida, Yasuhito Sako, Munehiro Okamoto, Ni Luh Putu Eka Diarthini, Dewa Ayu Agus Sri Laksemi, Tetsuya Yanagida, Minoru Nakao and Akira Ito
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:148
  3. Similar to other hematophagous insects, male and female sand flies must feed on plants to obtain sugar and, subsequently, energy to complete their life cycles. A large number of compounds emitted by plants may...

    Authors: Vicente Estevam Machado, Arlene Gonçalves Corrêa, Thais Marchi Goulart, Flávia Benini da Rocha Silva, Dennys Ghenry Samillan Ortiz and Mara Cristina Pinto
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:147
  4. To reveal the spatio-temporal distribution of malaria vectors in the national malaria surveillance sites from 2005 to 2010 and provide reference for the current National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP) in...

    Authors: Ji-Xia Huang, Zhi-Gui Xia, Shui-Sen Zhou, Xiao-Jun Pu, Mao-Gui Hu, Da-Cang Huang, Zhou-Peng Ren, Shao-Sen Zhang, Man-ni Yang, Duo-Quan Wang and Jin-Feng Wang
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:146
  5. Malaria is the 4th largest cause of mortality in Madagascar. To better understand malaria transmission dynamics, it is crucial to map the distribution of the malaria vectors, mosquitoes belonging to the genus Ano...

    Authors: Sarah Zohdy, Kristin Derfus, Mbolatiana Tovo Andrianjafy, Patricia C Wright and Thomas R Gillespie
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:145
  6. Dengue is rapidly expanding mosquito-borne viral infection globally facing operational challenges due to insecticide resistance in dengue vectors. We have studied the susceptibility status of potential dengue ...

    Authors: Kavita Yadav, Bipul Rabha, Sunil Dhiman and Vijay Veer
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:143
  7. The incidence of mosquito-borne diseases is increasing in Europe, partly due to the incursion of a number of invasive species known to be vectors of dengue and chikungunya viruses, but also due to the involvem...

    Authors: Jolyon M Medlock and Alexander GC Vaux
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:142
  8. Whirling disease, caused by the myxozoan parasite Myxobolus cerebralis, has high economical and ecological importance worldwide. Susceptibility to the disease varies considerably among salmonid species. In brown ...

    Authors: Edit Eszterbauer, Barbara Forró, Zoltán Tolnai, Csaba Ferenc Guti, Gergely Zsigmond, György Hoitsy and Dennis Marc Kallert
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:141
  9. Ticks and tick-borne diseases affect animal and human health worldwide and cause significant economic losses in the animal industry. Functional molecular research is important to understand the biological char...

    Authors: Yujian Wang, Yongzhi Zhou, Haiyan Gong, Jie Cao, Houshuang Zhang, Xiangrui Li and Jinlin Zhou
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:140
  10. Canine dirofilariasis due to Dirofilaria immitis is known to be endemic in continental Portugal. However, information about the transmitting mosquito species is still scarce, with only Culex theileri identified t...

    Authors: Cátia Alexandra Costa Ferreira, Verónica de Pinho Mixão, Maria Teresa Lourenço Marques Novo, Maria Manuela Palmeiro Calado, Luzia Augusta Pires Gonçalves, Silvana Maria Duarte Belo and António Paulo Gouveia de Almeida
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:139
  11. Trichinella spp. are zoonotic parasites transmitted to humans by the consumption of raw or insufficiently cooked meat of different animal species. The most common source of infection for humans...

    Authors: Muza Kirjušina, Gunita Deksne, Gianluca Marucci, Eduards Bakasejevs, Inese Jahundoviča, Anžela Daukšte, Aleksandra Zdankovska, Zanda Bērziņa, Zanda Esīte, Antonino Bella, Fabio Galati, Angelika Krūmiņa and Edoardo Pozio
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:137
  12. Dengue has become the subject of public health programs worldwide. The lack of a vaccine and the high environmental risk of synthetic insecticides, arouse the interest in natural products against this vector. ...

    Authors: Drielle L A Pratti, Alessandro C Ramos, Rodrigo Scherer, Zilma M A Cruz and Ary G Silva
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:136
  13. Trypanosoma rangeli is a protozoan that infects a variety of mammalian hosts, including humans. Its main insect vector is Rhodnius prolixus and is found in several Latin American countries. The...

    Authors: Cecilia S Vieira, Débora P Mattos, Peter J Waniek, Jayme M Santangelo, Marcela B Figueiredo, Marcia Gumiel, Fabio F da Mota, Daniele P Castro, Eloi S Garcia and Patrícia Azambuja
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:135
  14. Urban mosquitoes in temperate regions may represent a high nuisance and are associated with the risk of arbovirus transmission. Common practices to reduce this burden, at least in Italian highly infested urban...

    Authors: Beniamino Caputo, Annamaria Ienco, Mattia Manica, Vincenzo Petrarca, Roberto Rosà and Alessandra della Torre
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:134
  15. Leishmania parasites can cause visceral or cutaneous disease and are found in subtropical and tropical regions of the Old and New World. The pathology of the infection is determined by both hos...

    Authors: Christina Monerat Toledo-Machado, Lilian Lacerda Bueno, Daniel Menezes-Souza, Ricardo Andrez Machado-de-Avila, Christophe Nguyen, Claude Granier, Daniella Castanheira Bartholomeu, Carlos Chávez-Olórtegui and Ricardo Toshio Fujiwara
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:133
  16. Subolesin is an evolutionary conserved molecule in diverse arthropod species that play an important role in the regulation of genes involved in immune responses, blood digestion, reproduction and development. ...

    Authors: Hameeda Sultana, Unnati Patel, Daniel E Sonenshine and Girish Neelakanta
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:132
  17. Phlebotomine sand flies are the subject of much research because of the role of their females as the only proven natural vectors of Leishmania species, the parasitic protozoans that are the causative agents of th...

    Authors: Paul A Bates, Jerôme Depaquit, Eunice AB Galati, Shaden Kamhawi, Michele Maroli, Mary Ann McDowell, Albert Picado, Paul D Ready, O Daniel Salomón, Jeffrey J Shaw, Yara M Traub-Csekö and Alon Warburg
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:131
  18. Widespread and large scale use of ivermectin in humans and domestic animals can have unexpected effects on non-target organisms. As a search for a possible explanation for an observed longitudinal decline in d...

    Authors: Yahya A Derua, William N Kisinza and Paul E Simonsen
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:130
  19. In a recent Letter to the Editor, Norris et al. questioned the validity of some of our data reported by Feria-Arroyo et al. The main issue investigated by us was the potential impact of climate change on the prob...

    Authors: Maria D Esteve-Gassent, Abha Grover, Teresa P Feria-Arroyo, Ivan Castro-Arellano, Raul F Medina, Guadalupe Gordillo-Pérez and Adalberto A Pérez de León
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:129
  20. Head louse infestation, which is caused by Pediculus humanus capitis, occurs throughout the world. With the advent of molecular techniques, head lice have been classified into three clades. Recent reports have de...

    Authors: Sakone Sunantaraporn, Vivornpun Sanprasert, Theerakamol Pengsakul, Atchara Phumee, Rungfar Boonserm, Apiwat Tawatsin, Usavadee Thavara and Padet Siriyasatien
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:127
  21. Clonorchis sinensis (C. sinensis) inhabits in bile duct of the host. However, the mechanisms involved in why C. sinensis can survive in the bile environment containing lipids have not yet been ...

    Authors: Jinsi Lin, Hongling Qu, Guishan Chen, Lei He, Yanquan Xu, Zhizhi Xie, Mengyu Ren, Jiufeng Sun, Shan Li, Wenjun Chen, Xueqing Chen, Xiaoyun Wang, Xuerong Li, Chi Liang, Yan Huang and Xinbing Yu
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:125
  22. Although fascioliasis has been relatively well studied, little is known about the molecular basis of this disease. This is particularly relevant, considering the very different response that sheep have to Fasciol...

    Authors: Cristian A Alvarez Rojas, Brendan RE Ansell, Ross S Hall, Robin B Gasser, Neil D Young, Aaron R Jex and Jean-Pierre Y Scheerlinck
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:124
  23. Chagas disease is an anthropozoonosis caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi that represents a major public health problem in Latin America. Although the United States is defined as non-endemic for Ch...

    Authors: Claudia P Herrera, Meredith H Licon, Catherine S Nation, Samuel B Jameson and Dawn M Wesson
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:123
  24. Cystatins are a group of cysteine protease inhibitors responsible for physiological proteolysis regulation and present in a wide range of organisms. Studies about this class of inhibitors in parasites have con...

    Authors: Luís Fernando Parizi, Gabriela Alves Sabadin, María Fernanda Alzugaray, Adriana Seixas, Carlos Logullo, Satoru Konnai, Kazuhiko Ohashi, Aoi Masuda and Itabajara da Silva Vaz Jr
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:122
  25. Chagas disease is a zoonosis caused by Trypanosoma cruzi in which the most affected organ is the heart. Conventional chemotherapy has a very low effectiveness; despite recent efforts, there is currently no better...

    Authors: Minerva Arce-Fonseca, Martha Rios-Castro, Silvia del Carmen Carrillo-Sánchez, Mariana Martínez-Cruz and Olivia Rodríguez-Morales
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:121
  26. Giardia lamblia switches its lifecycle between trophozoite and cyst forms and the proteasome plays a pivotal role in this switching event. Compared to most model eukaryotes, the proteasome of t...

    Authors: Abhishek Sinha, Shankari Prasad Datta, Atrayee Ray and Srimonti Sarkar
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:120
  27. The lungworm Dictyocaulus viviparus, causing parasitic bronchitis in cattle, induces a temporary protective immunity that prevents clinical disease. A radiation-attenuated larvae based vaccine is commercially ava...

    Authors: Christina Strube, Claas Haake, Heinz Sager, Sandra Schorderet Weber, Ronald Kaminsky, Sandra Buschbaum, Deborah Joekel, Sabine Schicht, Elisabeth Kremmer, Julia Korrell, Thomas Schnieder and Georg von Samson-Himmelstjerna
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:119
  28. Quantification of malaria heterogeneity is very challenging, partly because of the underlying characteristics of mosquitoes and also because malaria is an environmentally driven disease. Furthermore, in order ...

    Authors: Eric Diboulo, Ali Sié, Diallo A Diadier, Dimitrios A Karagiannis Voules, Yazoume Yé and Penelope Vounatsou
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:118
  29. Polovodova method based on counting follicular dilatations estimates the number of egg-laying in mosquitoes. However, some researchers doubt the reliability of this method because of the absence of multiple di...

    Authors: Rodrigue Anagonou, Fiacre Agossa, Roseric Azondékon, Marc Agbogan, Fréderic Oké-Agbo, Virgile Gnanguenon, Kèfilath Badirou, Ramziath Agbanrin-Youssouf, Roseline Attolou, Gil Germain Padonou, Arthur Sovi, Razaki Ossè and Martin Akogbéto
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:117
  30. The location of the microhabitats where immature phlebotomine sand flies of the genus Lutzomyia develop is one of the least-known aspects of this group of medically important insects. For this reason strategies o...

    Authors: Rafael José Vivero, Carolina Torres-Gutierrez, Eduar E Bejarano, Horacio Cadena Peña, Luis Gregorio Estrada, Fernando Florez, Edgar Ortega, Yamileth Aparicio and Carlos E Muskus
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:116
  31. Measure the populations of Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus adults according to sex and location inside or outside the residence, estimate Ae. aegypti female density per house and per resident, and test the associa...

    Authors: Marianni de Moura Rodrigues, Gisela Rita Alvarenga Monteiro Marques, Lígia Leandro Nunes Serpa, Marylene de Brito Arduino, Júlio Cesar Voltolini, Gerson Laurindo Barbosa, Valmir Roberto Andrade and Virgília Luna Castor de Lima
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:115
  32. Dengue is an arboviral disease caused by dengue virus (DENV), whose main vectors are the mosquitoes Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. A. aegypti is the only DENV vector in Cape Verde, an African country that su...

    Authors: Aires Januário Fernandes da Moura, Maria Alice Varjal de Melo Santos, Claudia Maria Fontes Oliveira, Duschinka Ribeiro Duarte Guedes, Danilo de Carvalho-Leandro, Maria Lidia da Cruz Brito, Hélio Daniel Ribeiro Rocha, Lara Ferrero Gómez and Constância Flávia Junqueira Ayres
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:114
  33. The aim of this work was to investigate the potential nematicidal activity of Annona crassiflora leaf extract against Caenorhabditis elegans.

    Authors: Alan Rodrigues Teixeira Machado, Sebastião Rodrigo Ferreira, Felipe da Silva Medeiros, Ricardo Toshio Fujiwara, José Dias de Souza Filho and Lúcia Pinheiro Santos Pimenta
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:113
  34. Amblyomma ticks parasitize a wide range of animals in tropical regions. This study describes the identification of Amblyomma ticks from wild snakes in Malaysia and the detection of potential hu...

    Authors: Kai Ling Kho, Fui Xian Koh and Sun Tee Tay
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:112
  35. Leishmaniasis is a neglected vector-borne tropical disease caused by Leishmania protozoa that are transmitted to mammalian hosts by infected sand flies. Infection is associated with distinct clinical manifestatio...

    Authors: Dirlei Nico, Naiara Maran, Leonardo Santos, Erivan Schnaider Ramos-Junior, Natália Rodrigues Mantuano, Joseane Lima Prado Coutinho, Andre Macedo Vale, Celio Geraldo Freire-de-Lima, Adriane Todeschini, Juliany Cola Fernandes Rodrigues, Clarisa Beatriz Palatnik-de-Sousa and Alexandre Morrot
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:111
  36. Increasing reports of high-resistant Triatominae populations concerns scientists and sanitarians as little is known about the factors behind the occurrence of such phenotype and its real impact on vector contr...

    Authors: Grasielle Caldas D’Ávila Pessoa, Letícia Cavalari Pinheiro, Marcela Lencine Ferraz, Bernardino Vaz de Mello and Liléia Diotaiuti
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:109
  37. Anaplasmosis is caused by obligate intracellular bacteria in the genus Anaplasma. These bacterial pathogens are transmitted by ticks and impact both human and animal health. This study was conducted to determine ...

    Authors: Jifei Yang, Youquan Li, Zhijie Liu, Junlong Liu, Qingli Niu, Qiaoyun Ren, Ze Chen, Guiquan Guan, Jianxun Luo and Hong Yin
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:108
  38. Infection of cats with Dirofilaria immitis causes seroconversion on antibody tests and pulmonary pathology, often without subsequent development of adult heartworms. Consistent administration of topical 10% imida...

    Authors: Susan E Little, Joe A Hostetler, Jennifer E Thomas, Keith L Bailey, Anne W Barrett, Kaylynn Gruntmeir, Jeff Gruntmeir, Lindsay A Starkey, Chris Basel and Byron L Blagburn
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:107
  39. Phlebotomus orientalis is the main sandfly vector of visceral leishmaniasis in the north and northwest of Ethiopia. CDC light traps and sticky traps are commonly used for monitoring sandfly pop...

    Authors: Araya Gebresilassie, Solomon Yared, Essayas Aklilu, Oscar David Kirstein, Aviad Moncaz, Habte Tekie, Meshesha Balkew, Alon Warburg, Asrat Hailu and Teshome Gebre-Michael
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:106
  40. Parvicapsula pseudobranchicola is a marine myxosporean parasite infecting farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). A major site for the parasite is the pseudobranch, which may be destroyed in heav...

    Authors: Turhan Markussen, Celia Agusti, Egil Karlsbakk, Are Nylund, Øyvind Brevik and Haakon Hansen
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:105
  41. Protostrongylus oryctolagi and P. pulmonalis are causative agents of pulmonary protostrongyliasis in Lagomorphs in France. These nematodes need usually one intermediate host for its life cycle,...

    Authors: Célia Lesage, Cécile Patrelle, Sylvain Vrignaud, Anouk Decors, Hubert Ferté and Damien Jouet
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:104
  42. Several species of protozoa cause acute or chronic gastroenteritis in humans, worldwide. The burden of disease is particularly high among children living in developing areas of the world, where transmission is...

    Authors: Érica Boarato David, Semíramis Guimarães, Ana Paula de Oliveira, Teresa Cristina Goulart de Oliveira-Sequeira, Gabriela Nogueira Bittencourt, Ana Rita Moraes Nardi, Paulo Eduardo Martins Ribolla, Regina Maura Bueno Franco, Nilson Branco, Fabio Tosini, Antonino Bella, Edoardo Pozio and Simone M Cacciò
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:103
  43. Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is a major public health problem in the Pacific. As the global prevalence of infection was not known in New Caledonia (NC), a serosurvey study was conducted by determining the prevale...

    Authors: Maguy Daures, Julie Champagnat, Anne Pfannstiel, Frédérique Ringuenoire, Jean-Paul Grangeon and Didier Musso
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:102
  44. Bats belong to one of the most species-rich orders within the Mammalia. They show a worldwide distribution, a high degree of ecological diversification as well as a high diversity of associated parasites and p...

    Authors: Raphael Frank, Thomas Kuhn, Antje Werblow, Andrew Liston, Judith Kochmann and Sven Klimpel
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:101
  45. Gongylonema pulchrum (Nematoda: Gongylonematidae), a thread-like spirurid gullet worm, infects a range of mammalian definitive hosts, including cattle, pigs, equines, goats, primates and humans...

    Authors: Guo-Hua Liu, Yan-Qing Jia, Ya-Nan Wang, Guang-Hui Zhao and Xing-Quan Zhu
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:100
  46. Compliance with annual ivermectin treatment is a major challenge in community-directed treatment with ivermectin (CDTI) implementation. There are individuals who do not comply with the annual mass treatment, w...

    Authors: Adugna Endale, Berhanu Erko, Fitsum Weldegebreal and Mengistu Legesse
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:99
  47. Vector control remains the primary defense against dengue fever. Its success relies on the assumption that vector density is related to disease transmission. Two operational issues include the amount by which ...

    Authors: Kim M Pepin, Clint B Leach, Cecilia Marques-Toledo, Karla H Laass, Kelly S Paixao, Angela D Luis, David TS Hayman, Nels G Johnson, Michael G Buhnerkempe, Scott Carver, Daniel A Grear, Kimberly Tsao, Alvaro E Eiras and Colleen T Webb
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:98
  48. Hypoderaeum conoideum is a neglected but important trematode. The life cycle of this parasite is complex: snails serve as the first intermediate hosts: bivalves, fishes or tadpoles serve as the...

    Authors: Xin Yang, Robin B Gasser, Anson V Koehler, Lixia Wang, Kaixiang Zhu, Lu Chen, Hanli Feng, Min Hu and Rui Fang
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:97

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