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  1. Large populations of unowned cats constitute an animal welfare, ecological, societal and public health issue worldwide. Their relocation and homing are currently carried out in many parts of the world with the...

    Authors: Ricardo Guillermo Maggi, Vicky Halls, Friederike Krämer, Michael Lappin, Maria Grazia Pennisi, Andrew S. Peregrine, Xavier Roura, Bettina Schunack, Valeria Scorza, Séverine Tasker, Gad Baneth, Patrick Bourdeau, Dwight D. Bowman, Edward B. Breitschwerdt, Gioia Capelli, Luís Cardoso…
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:415
  2. Schistosoma japonicum infection is an important public health problem, imposing heavy social and economic burdens in 78 countries worldwide. However, the mechanism of transition from chronic to advanced S. japoni...

    Authors: Chen Zhou, Junhui Li, Chen Guo, Zhaoqin Zhou, Zhen Yang, Yu Zhang, Jie Jiang, Yu Cai, Jie Zhou and Yingzi Ming
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:413
  3. Leishmania infections span a range of clinical syndromes and impact humans from many geographic foci, but primarily the world’s poorest regions. Transmitted by the bite of a female sand fly, Leishmania infections...

    Authors: Ineka Gow, Nicholas C. Smith, Damien Stark and John Ellis
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:412
  4. Haemaphysalis flava is a hematophagous ectoparasite that acquires the nutrition needed for development and reproduction by sucking blood and digesting the blood meal. During blood-sucking and blood-meal digestion...

    Authors: Yu-Ke Liu, Guo-Hua Liu, Lei Liu, Ai-Bing Wang, Tian-Yin Cheng and De-Yong Duan
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:411
  5. The Geshiyaro project is a 5-year intervention to assess the impact of community- and school-based water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH) interventions on reducing infection with soil-transmitted helminths (STH...

    Authors: Anna E. Phillips, Alison K. Ower, Kalkidan Mekete, Ewnetu Firdawek Liyew, Rosie Maddren, Habtamu Belay, Melkie Chernet, Ufaysa Anjulo, Birhan Mengistu, Mihretab Salasibew, Geremew Tasew and Roy Anderson
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:410
  6. Gastrointestinal nematode (GIN) control is traditionally achieved with the use of anthelmintic drugs, however due to regulations in organic farming and the rise in anthelmintic resistance, alternatives are sou...

    Authors: Francesca Shepherd, Caroline Chylinski, Michael R. Hutchings, Joana Lima, Ross Davidson, Robert Kelly, Alastair Macrae, Juha-Pekka Salminen, Marica T. Engström, Veronika Maurer, Håvard Steinshamn, Susanne Fittje, Angela Morell Perez, Rocío Rosa García and Spiridoula Athanasiadou
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:409
  7. Parasitic nematodes, including large roundworms colloquially known as ascarids, affect the health and well-being of livestock animals worldwide. The equine ascarids, Parascaris spp., are important parasites of ju...

    Authors: Jennifer L. Cain, Jamie K. Norris, Nichol E. Ripley, Parul Suri, Constance A. Finnerty, Holli S. Gravatte and Martin K. Nielsen
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:408
  8. The canine heartworm Dirofilaria immitis, a filarioid nematode of dogs and other carnivores, is widespread in the USA and the world. Over 20 different mosquito species serve as intermediate hosts of D. immitis, b...

    Authors: Nicole A. Scavo, Italo B. Zecca, Caroline Sobotyk, Meriam N. Saleh, Sarah K. Lane, Mark F. Olson, Sarah A. Hamer, Guilherme G. Verocai and Gabriel L. Hamer
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:407
  9. Colombia is ranked very high among countries with the highest numbers of endemic Leishmania species (n = 9) causing human disease. Although much effort has been devoted to generating simple and specific tools for...

    Authors: Juliana Hoyos, Mariana Rosales-Chilama, Cielo León, Camila González and María Adelaida Gómez
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:406
  10. Mosquitoes of the Culex pipiens complex are found across the globe and are the focus of many research studies. Among the temperate species C. pipiens sensu stricto (s.s.), two forms are usually described: molestu...

    Authors: Soukaina Arich, Yuki Haba, Najlaa Assaid, Megan L. Fritz, Carolyn S. McBride, Mylène Weill, Hassan Taki, M’hammed Sarih and Pierrick Labbé
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:405
  11. The Babesia microti-like parasite is an emerging tick-borne piroplasm that has been detected in a range of hosts worldwide. Babesia vulpes, which is found in dogs and foxes, has been reclassified from B. microti

    Authors: Sanghyun Lee, Yeonchul Hong, Dong-Il Chung, Hyung-Kwan Jang, Youn-Kyoung Goo and Xuenan Xuan
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:404
  12. The geniculatus clade, composed by the rufotuberculatus, lignarius, geniculatus and megistus groups, relates evolutionarily the species of the genus Panstrongylus and Nesotriatoma. Several studies have shown that...

    Authors: Yago Visinho dos Reis, Jader de Oliveira, Fernanda Fernandez Madeira, Amanda Ravazi, Ana Beatriz Bortolozo de Oliveira, Denis Vinicius de Mello, Fabricio Ferreira Campos, Maria Tercília Vilela de Azeredo-Oliveira, João Aristeu da Rosa, Cleber Galvão and Kaio Cesar Chaboli Alevi
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:403
  13. The sterile insect technique (SIT), which involves area-wide inundative releases of sterile insects to suppress the reproduction of a target species, has proven to be an effective pest control method. The tec...

    Authors: Danilo O. Carvalho, Rachel Morreale, Steven Stenhouse, Daniel A. Hahn, Maylen Gomez, Aaron Lloyd and David Hoel
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:402
  14. The apicomplexan haemoparasite Theileria equi, a causative agent of equine piroplasmosis, is an established pathogen of significant welfare and economic concern within the Croatian equine population. A previous l...

    Authors: Robert Coultous, Jelena Gotić, Martine McCann, David Sutton, Relja Beck and Brian Shiels
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:401
  15. Eimeria stiedae parasitizes the bile duct, causing hepatic coccidiosis in rabbits. Coccidiosis control using anticoccidials led to drug resistance and residues; therefore, vaccines are required as an alternative ...

    Authors: Jie Xiao, Ruoyu Zheng, Xin Bai, Jiayan Pu, Hao Chen, Xiaobin Gu, Yue Xie, Ran He, Jing Xu, Bo Jing, Xuerong Peng and Guangyou Yang
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:400
  16. The aims of the present study were to evaluate and compare the efficacy of blood-feeding in phlebotomines through industrially processed membranes from the small intestine of pigs (used for the production of c...

    Authors: Yetsenia del Valle Sánchez Uzcátegui, Eduardo José Melo dos Santos, Edilson Rodrigues Matos, Fernando Tobias Silveira, Thiago Vasconcelos dos Santos and Marinete Marins Póvoa
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:399
  17. Ctenocephalides felis, the cat flea, is the most common ectoparasite of cats and dogs worldwide. As a cause of flea allergy dermatitis and a vector for two genera of zoonotic pathogens (Bartonella and Rickettsia ...

    Authors: Charlotte Manvell, Hanna Berman, Benjamin Callahan, Edward Breitschwerdt, William Swain, Kelli Ferris, Ricardo Maggi and Erin Lashnits
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:398
  18. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) represents the main cause of mortality in dogs with leishmaniosis. Domperidone has recently been reported to improve kidney function in leishmaniotic dogs affected by CKD. Serum sy...

    Authors: Maria Alfonsa Cavalera, Floriana Gernone, Annamaria Uva, Rossella Donghia, Claudia Zizzadoro and Andrea Zatelli
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:397
  19. There are close similarities between the life-cycles of Echinococcus granulosus sensu lato (E. granulosus s.l.) that causes cystic echinococcosis (CE) in humans and Taenia multiceps/Coenurus cerebralis that cause...

    Authors: Francesca Tamarozzi, Tito Kibona, William A. de Glanville, Tauta Mappi, Elly Adonikamu, Anande Salewi, Kennedy Misso, Venance Maro, Adriano Casulli, Azzurra Santoro, Federica Santolamazza, Blandina T. Mmbaga and Sarah Cleaveland
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:396
  20. The tick Rhipicephalus microplus (Ixodida: Ixodidae, Canestrini, 1888) causes substantial economic and health losses in cattle production and is the main vector of Babesia bigemina (Piroplasmidae: Babesidae, Smit...

    Authors: Kauê Rodriguez Martins, Marcos Valério Garcia, Paulino Bonatte-Junior, Pâmella Oliveira Duarte, Barbara Guimarães Csordas, Leandro de Oliveira Souza Higa, Namor Pinheiro Zimmermann, Jacqueline Cavalcante Barros and Renato Andreotti
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:395
  21. Cryptosporidium spp., Giardia duodenalis and Enterocytozoon bieneusi can cause important intestinal diseases in ruminants. However, data on the distribution of these three protozoan pathogens in Tibetan sheep are...

    Authors: Fan Yang, Li Ma, Jing-min Gou, Hui-zhong Yao, Mei Ren, Bing-ke Yang and Qing Lin
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:394
  22. Women in early pregnancy infected by Toxoplasma gondii may have severe adverse pregnancy outcomes, such as spontaneous abortion and fetal malformation. The inhibitory molecule T cell immunoglobulin and mucin doma...

    Authors: Hongbing Xie, Zhidan Li, Guangmei Zheng, Chunyan Yang, Xianbing Liu, Xiaoyan Xu, Yushan Ren, Chao Wang and Xuemei Hu
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:393
  23. The recognition and delineation of morphologically indistinguishable cryptic species can have broad implications for wildlife conservation, disease ecology and accurate estimates of biodiversity. Parasites are...

    Authors: Taylor B. Verrett, Paul W. Webala, Bruce D. Patterson and Carl W. Dick
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:392
  24. Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic idiopathic disease characterized by inflammation-related epithelial barrier damage in the intestinal tract. Helminth infection reduces autoimmune disease symptoms ...

    Authors: Jianling Bao, Wenjing Qi, Chang Sun, Mengxiao Tian, Hongjie Jiao, Gang Guo, Baoping Guo, Yuan Ren, Huajun Zheng, Yuezhu Wang, Mei Yan, Zhaoxia Zhang, Donald P. McManus, Jun Li and Wenbao Zhang
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:391
  25. Environmental temperature is a key driver for the transmission risk of mosquito-borne pathogens. Epidemiological models usually relate to temperature data from standardized weather stations, but these data may...

    Authors: Felix Gregor Sauer, Ellen Kiel and Renke Lühken
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:390
  26. Dengue is one of the common arboviral infections and is a public health problem in South East Asia. The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to evaluate the prevalence and distribution of dengue...

    Authors: Dhan Bahadur Shrestha, Pravash Budhathoki, Bipana Gurung, Subash Subedi, Shishir Aryal, Anisha Basukala, Barun Aryal, Anurag Adhikari, Ayusha Poudel, Gopal Kumar Yadav, Mtanis Khoury, Binod Rayamajhee and Lok Bahadur Shrestha
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:389
  27. Effectively controlling heartworm disease—a major parasitic disease threatening animal health in the US and globally—requires understanding the local ecology of mosquito vectors involved in transmission. Howev...

    Authors: Lisa I. Couper and Erin A. Mordecai
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:388
  28. Recombinant antigens rK39 (based on kinesin sequence) and rK28 (comprising kinesin and HASPB sequences) are a mainstay of serological diagnosis for visceral leishmaniasis (VL). However, their key epitopes and ...

    Authors: Poppy Simonson, Tapan Bhattacharyya, Sayda El-Safi and Michael A. Miles
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:387
  29. Clonorchiasis caused by Clonorchis sinensis is a zoonotic parasitic disease characterized by cholangitis, biliary proliferation, biliary fibrosis, and even cholangiocarcinoma. Our previous study showed that the e...

    Authors: Chao Yan, Na Xu, Man Liu, Zhihua Jiang, Jing Wu, Stephane Koda, Yu Chen, Beibei Zhang, Qian Yu, Yin-Hai Xu, Jian-Lin Wu and Kui-Yang Zheng
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:386
  30. Echinococcosis is a parasitic zoonotic disease that threatens human health and economic development. In China, 370 counties are endemic for echinococcosis. Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has the most patients and peopl...

    Authors: Li-Ying Wang, Min Qin, Laurent Gavotte, Wei-Ping Wu, Xixi Cheng, Jia-Xi Lei, Jun Yan and Roger Frutos
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:385
  31. Insecticide-based vector control interventions in combination with case management with artemisinin-based combination therapy has reduced malaria incidence and prevalence worldwide. Current control methods foc...

    Authors: Arega Tsegaye, Assalif Demissew, Dawit Hawaria, Hallelujah Getachew, Kassahun Habtamu, Abebe Asale, Guiyun Yan and Delenasaw Yewhalaw
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:384
  32. The amino acid transporter protein cationic amino acid transporter 1 (CAT1) is part of the nutrient sensor in the fat body of mosquitoes. A member of the SLC7 family of cationic amino acid transporters, it is ...

    Authors: Matthew Pinch, Theodore Muka, Yashoda Kandel, Mahesh Lamsal, Nathan Martinez, Marialuisa Teixeira, Dmitri Y. Boudko and Immo A. Hansen
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:383
  33. The presence of breeding sites and distribution of species of Simulium damnosum sensu lato are critical in understanding the epidemiology of onchocerciasis and evaluating the impact of elimination interventions. ...

    Authors: Franklin Ayisi, Naniogué Sedou, Stephanie Kouahou Dieunang, Florent Yaya, Edmond François Tchago, Cosmas Ejong Ndellejong, Benjamin Biholong and Daniel Adjei Boakye
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:382
  34. Arboviral diseases such as dengue, Zika and chikungunya transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes have been reported in 34 African countries. Available data indicate that in recent years there have been dengue and chikungu...

    Authors: Samuel K. Dadzie, Jewelna Akorli, Mamadou B. Coulibaly, Koffi Mensah Ahadji-Dabla, Ibrahima Baber, Thierry Bobanga, Ali Ould Mohamed Salem Boukhary, Tiago Canelas, Luca Facchinelli, Adéritow Gonçalves, Moussa Guelbeogo, Basile Kamgang, Ibrahima Kalil Keita, Lucien Konan, Rebecca Levine, Nicole Dzuris…
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:381
  35. Microbial communities can affect disease risk by interfering with the transmission or maintenance of pathogens in blood-feeding arthropods. Here, we investigated whether bacterial communities vary between Ixodes ...

    Authors: Aleksandra Iwona Krawczyk, Sam Röttjers, Maria João Coimbra-Dores, Dieter Heylen, Manoj Fonville, Willem Takken, Karoline Faust and Hein Sprong
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:380
  36. Multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) for nuclear phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (pepck) and polymerase delta (pold), respectively, have been used to...

    Authors: Emi Okamoto, Michiyo Tashiro, Pedro Ortiz, Uday Kumar Mohanta, Cristian Hobán, César A. Murga-Moreno, José M. Angulo-Tisoc and Madoka Ichikawa-Seki
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:379
  37. Hard ticks (Ixodidae) are hematophagous ectoparasites that transmit various pathogens to a variety of hosts including humans. Transhumant herds have been involved in the spread of ticks and associated Rickettsia ...

    Authors: Muhammad Numan, Nabeela Islam, Muhammad Adnan, Sher Zaman Safi, Lidia Chitimia-Dobler, Marcelo B. Labruna and Abid Ali
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:378
  38. Leishmania parasites are deposited in the host through sand fly bites along with sand fly saliva. Therefore, salivary proteins are promising vaccine candidates for controlling leishmaniasis. Herein, two immunogen...

    Authors: Mahya Sadat Lajevardi, Tahereh Taheri, Elham Gholami, Negar Seyed and Sima Rafati
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:377
  39. Classification of the Acanthocephala, a clade of obligate endoparasites, remains unresolved because of insufficiently strong resolution of morphological characters and scarcity of molecular data with a suffici...

    Authors: Jin-Wei Gao, Xi-Ping Yuan, Hao Wu, Chuan-Yu Xiang, Min Xie, Rui Song, Zhong-Yuan Chen, Yuan-An Wu and Dong-Sheng Ou
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:376
  40. The Aedes aegypti mosquito is the primary vector for dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever and Zika viruses worldwide. The first record of Ae. aegypti in southwestern Saudi Arabia was in 1956. However, the first outb...

    Authors: Abadi M. Mashlawi, Ashwaq M. Al-Nazawi, Elsiddig M. Noureldin, Hussain Alqahtani, Jazem A. Mahyoub, Jassada Saingamsook, Mustapha Debboun, Martha Kaddumukasa, Hesham M. Al-Mekhlafi and Catherine Walton
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:375
  41. The study of behavioral and physiological traits in mosquitoes has been mainly focused on females since males are not hematophagous and thus do not transfer the parasites that cause diseases in human populatio...

    Authors: Jéssica Rodrigues Assunção Bezerra, Rafaela Vieira Bruno and Luciana Ordunha Araripe
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:374
  42. Despite being one of the most prevalent helminth parasitic zoonoses worldwide and particularly in socioeconomically vulnerable populations, toxocariasis remains to be fully investigated in persons experiencing...

    Authors: Vamilton Alvares Santarém, Anahi Chechia do Couto, Susana Zevallos Lescano, William Henry Roldán, Ruana Renostro Delai, Rogério Giuffrida, Louise Bach Kmetiuk, Alexander Welker Biondo, Sriveny Dangoudoubiyam and Andrea Pires dos Santos
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:373
  43. Leishmaniosis, a vector-borne disease caused by Leishmania infantum, is one of the most important parasitic zoonoses in Europe. The transmission cycle of leishmaniosis is maintained by both domestic and wild anim...

    Authors: María Magdalena Alcover, Jacobo Giner, Judit Rabasedas, Xavier Roca-Geronés, Maite Verde, Antonio Fernández, Cristina Riera, Roser Fisa and Sergio Villanueva-Saz
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:372
  44. Sexual stage surface antigens are potential targets of transmission-blocking vaccines (TBVs). The gametocyte and gamete surface antigen P230, a leading TBV candidate, is critical for red blood cell binding dur...

    Authors: Xin Zhao, Yubing Hu, Yan Zhao, Lin Wang, Zifang Wu, Myat Thu Soe, Myat Phone Kyaw, Liwang Cui, Xiaotong Zhu and Yaming Cao
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:371
  45. For a long time known as the oriental eyeworm, Thelazia callipaeda is a zoonotic nematode that infects the eyes of a wide range of vertebrate hosts including dogs, cats, wildlife carnivores, lagomorphs, and human...

    Authors: Marcos Antonio Bezerra-Santos, Jairo Alfonso Mendoza-Roldan, Giovanni Sgroi, Riccardo Paolo Lia, Giulia Venegoni, Fabrizio Solari Basano, Roose Nele, Sean P. Mahabir, Stasia Borowski, Thomas Geurden and Domenico Otranto
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:370
  46. The protein ferritin, which plays an important role in the maintenance of iron homeostasis, is indispensable for iron detoxification, resistance to oxidative stress and innate immunity. Ticks, which are obliga...

    Authors: Zhihua Gao, Peijing Zheng, Kuang Wang, Xin Ji, Yanqing Shi, Xuecheng Song, Jingze Liu, Zhijun Yu and Xiaolong Yang
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:368
  47. Heartworms, Dirofilaria immitis, are known to be widespread in dogs and cats in the USA, but there have been no country-wide prevalence studies performed to date. There have also been no large-scale studies to de...

    Authors: Rachel Smith, Daniel Felipe Barrantes Murillo, Kelly Chenoweth, Subarna Barua, Patrick John Kelly, Lindsay Starkey, Byron Blagburn, Theresa Wood and Chengming Wang
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:367
  48. Bartonella are intracellular bacteria that are transmitted via animal scratches, bites and hematophagous arthropods. Rodents and their associated fleas play a key role in the maintenance of Bartonella worldwide, ...

    Authors: Kayla J. Buhler, Champika Fernando, Janet E. Hill, Terry Galloway, Suzanne Carriere, Heather Fenton, Dominique Fauteux and Emily J. Jenkins
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:366

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