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  1. There is a growing awareness that if we are to achieve the ambitious goal of malaria elimination, we must compliment indoor-based vector control interventions (such as bednets and indoor spraying) with outdoor...

    Authors: Andy Hardy, Makame Makame, Dónall Cross, Silas Majambere and Mwinyi Msellem
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:29
  2. Echinococcus granulosus (sensu lato) (s.l.) and Echinococcus vogeli are causative agents of chronic zoonotic diseases such as cystic and polycystic echinococcosis, respectively. In Bra...

    Authors: Leandro Batista das Neves, Paulo Eduardo Ferlini Teixeira, Sidnei Silva, Fernanda Bittencourt de Oliveira, Daniel Daipert Garcia, Fernanda Barbosa de Almeida, Rosângela Rodrigues-Silva and José Roberto Machado-Silva
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:28
  3. Toxoplasmosis is caused by Toxoplasma gondii which can infect all warm-blooded animals. As the most common feline definitive host, cats play a vital role in the transmission of T. gondii. However, national estima...

    Authors: Huan Ding, Yu-Meng Gao, Yao Deng, Poppy H. L. Lamberton and Da-Bing Lu
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:27
  4. Because of the low sensitivity of conventional rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for malaria infections, the actual prevalence of the diseases, especially those caused by non-Plasmodium falciparum (non-Pf) species, i...

    Authors: Kyoko Hayashida, Kiichi Kajino, Humphrey Simukoko, Martin Simuunza, Joseph Ndebe, Amos Chota, Boniface Namangala and Chihiro Sugimoto
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:26
  5. Anopheles vectors of malaria are supposedly less common in urban areas as a result of pollution, but there is increasing evidence of their adaptation to organically polluted water bodi...

    Authors: Precious A. Dzorgbe Mattah, Godfred Futagbi, Leonard K. Amekudzi, Memuna M. Mattah, Dziedzorm K. de Souza, Worlasi D. Kartey-Attipoe, Langbong Bimi and Michael D. Wilson
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:25
  6. Tick-borne flaviviruses (TBFs) cause thousands of human cases of encephalitis worldwide each year, with some TBF infections progressing to hemorrhagic fever. TBFs are of medical and veterinary importance and s...

    Authors: Jeffrey M. Grabowski, Monika Gulia-Nuss, Richard J. Kuhn and Catherine A. Hill
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:24
  7. Knowledge of insecticide resistance status in the main malaria vectors is an essential component of effective malaria vector control. This study presents the first evaluation of the status of insecticide resis...

    Authors: Marina Lidwine Olé Sangba, Aboubakar Sidick, Renaud Govoetchan, Christian Dide-Agossou, Razaki A. Ossè, Martin Akogbeto and Mamadou Ousmane Ndiath
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:23
  8. As part of a study to determine the impact of insecticide resistance on the effectiveness of long-lasting insecticide treated nets (LLINs) in the north of Cameroon, the unexpectedly high density and anthropoph...

    Authors: Raymond N. Tabue, Parfait Awono-Ambene, Josiane Etang, Jean Atangana, Antonio-Nkondjio C, Jean C. Toto, Salomon Patchoke, Rose G.F. Leke, Etienne Fondjo, Abraham P. Mnzava, Tessa B. Knox, Alexis Tougordi, Martin J. Donnelly and Jude D. Bigoga
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:22
  9. In Europe, the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) is the main definitive host of Echinococcus multilocularis, the aetiological agent of a severe disease in humans called alveolar echinococcosis. The distribution of this zoo...

    Authors: Belen Otero-Abad, Simon R. Rüegg, Daniel Hegglin, Peter Deplazes and Paul R. Torgerson
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:21
  10. Authors: F. Simón, V. Kartashev, J. González-Miguel, A. Rivera, A. Diosdado, P. J. Gómez, R. Morchón, M. Siles-Lucas, Vladimir Kartashev, Nikolay Bastrikov, Boris Ilyasov, Alexey Ermakov, Sergey Kartashov, Denis Dontsov, Yuri Ambalov, Tamara Pavlikovska…
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10(Suppl 1):5

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 10 Supplement 1

  11. Rickettsiae constitute a group of arthropod-borne, Gram-negative, obligate intracellular bacteria that are the causative agents of diseases ranging from mild to life threatening that impact on medical and vete...

    Authors: Yoontae Noh, Yeong Seon Lee, Heung-Chul Kim, Sung-Tae Chong, Terry A. Klein, Ju Jiang, Allen L. Richards, Hae Kyeong Lee and Su Yeon Kim
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:20
  12. Schistosomiasis is caused by infection with blood flukes of the genus Schistosoma, and ranks, in terms of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), as the third most important neglected tropical disease. Schistosom...

    Authors: Pengfei Cai, Shuai Liu, Xianyu Piao, Nan Hou, Hong You, Donald P. McManus and Qijun Chen
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:19
  13. Malaria vector mosquitoes with exophilic and zoophilic tendencies, or with a high acceptance of alternative blood meal sources when preferred human blood-hosts are unavailable, may help maintain low but consta...

    Authors: Margaret M. Njoroge, Inaki Tirados, Steven W. Lindsay, Glyn A. Vale, Stephen J. Torr and Ulrike Fillinger
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:18
  14. Heterophyidiasis is now a major public health threat in many tropical countries. Species in the trematode family Heterophyidae infecting humans include Centrocestus formosanus, Haplorchis pumilio, H. taichui, H. ...

    Authors: Thanh Hoa Le, Khue Thi Nguyen, Nga Thi Bich Nguyen, Huong Thi Thanh Doan, Do Trung Dung and David Blair
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:17
  15. African swine fever (ASF) causes severe socio-economic impacts due to high mortality and trade restrictions. Many risk factors of ASF have been identified at farm level. However, understanding the risk factors...

    Authors: Zheng Y. X. Huang, Frank van Langevelde, Karanina J. Honer, Marc Naguib and Willem F. de Boer
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:16
  16. Mansonellosis was first reported in Ghana by Awadzi in the 1990s. Co-infections of Mansonella perstans have also been reported in a small cohort of patients with Buruli ulcer and their contacts. However, no study...

    Authors: Linda Batsa Debrah, Norman Nausch, Vera Serwaa Opoku, Wellington Owusu, Yusif Mubarik, Daniel Antwi Berko, Samuel Wanji, Laura E. Layland, Achim Hoerauf, Marc Jacobsen, Alexander Yaw Debrah and Richard O. Phillips
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:15
  17. Since 1985, amoebic liver abscess (ALA) has been a public health problem in northern Sri Lanka. Clinicians arrive at a diagnosis based on clinical and ultrasonographic findings, which cannot differentiate pyog...

    Authors: Selvam Kannathasan, Arumugam Murugananthan, Thirunavukarasu Kumanan, Devika Iddawala, Nilanthi Renuka de Silva, Nadarajah Rajeshkannan and Rashidul Haque
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:14
  18. West Nile virus (WNV) is a zoonotic flavivirus maintained in mosquito-bird transmission cycle. Although humans are accidental hosts, fatal outcomes following WNV infection have been reported from India. Studie...

    Authors: Siraj A. Khan, Purvita Chowdhury, Parveena Choudhury and Prafulla Dutta
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:13
  19. The vector-borne cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is endemic in several regions of Pakistan mainly affecting poor populations. Host genetic factors, particularly SLC11A1 (solute carrier transmembrane protein) within ...

    Authors: Mariam Sophie, Abdul Hameed, Akhtar Muneer, Azam J. Samdani, Saima Saleem and Abid Azhar
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:12
  20. Mitochondrial (mt) genome sequences are widely used for species identification and to study the phylogenetic relationships among Gastropoda. However, to date, limited data are available as taxon sampling is na...

    Authors: Xidong Mu, Yexin Yang, Yi Liu, Du Luo, Meng Xu, Hui Wei, Dangen Gu, Hongmei Song and Yinchang Hu
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:11

    The Retraction Note to this article has been published in Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:350

  21. Cryptosporidium spp., Giardia duodenalis and Enterocytozoon bieneusi are the main causal pathogens of gastrointestinal disease. However, there are limited reports about the prevalence ...

    Authors: Wei Li, Lei Deng, Kongju Wu, Xiangming Huang, Yuan Song, Huaiyi Su, Yanchun Hu, Hualin Fu, Zhijun Zhong and Guangneng Peng
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:10
  22. Dual attractant toxic sugar baits (D-ATSB) containing two host kairomones, L-lactic (LA) and 1-octen-3-ol (O), and fruit-based attractants were evaluated through olfactory, consumption and mortality, and semi-...

    Authors: Jodi M. Scott-Fiorenzano, Alice P. Fulcher, Kelly E. Seeger, Sandra A. Allan, Daniel L. Kline, Philip G. Koehler, Günter C. Müller and Rui-De Xue
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:9
  23. Plasmodium ookinete surface proteins as post-fertilization target antigens are potential malaria transmission-blocking vaccine (TBV) candidates. Putative secreted ookinete protein 25 (...

    Authors: Wenqi Zheng, Fei Liu, Yiwen He, Qingyang Liu, Gregory B. Humphreys, Takafumi Tsuboi, Qi Fan, Enjie Luo, Yaming Cao and Liwang Cui
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:8
  24. Tick-borne diseases, particularly Lyme disease, are emerging across the northern hemisphere. In order to manage emerging diseases and predict where emergence will likely occur, it is necessary to understand th...

    Authors: Andrew J. MacDonald, David W. Hyon, John B. Brewington III, Kerry E. O’Connor, Andrea Swei and Cheryl J. Briggs
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:7
  25. Avian malaria occurs almost worldwide and is caused by Haemosporida parasites (Plasmodium, Haemoproteus and Leucocytozoon). Vectors such as mosquitoes, hippoboscid flies or biting midges are required for the tran...

    Authors: Sandrine Schmid, Anke Dinkel, Ute Mackenstedt, Michaël Luciano Tantely, Fano José Randrianambinintsoa, Sébastien Boyer and Friederike Woog
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:6
  26. Infections and clinical cases of Angiostrongylus vasorum in dogs are found increasingly across Europe, thus rendering knowledge on its infection biology more important. We used red foxes as a carnivore model to e...

    Authors: Pia Webster, Jesper Monrad, Christian M. O. Kapel, Annemarie T. Kristensen, Asger L. Jensen and Stig M. Thamsborg
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:4
  27. Giardia intestinalis is one of the most important zoonotic enteric parasites. As no information regarding prevalence and genotype of G. intestinalis in donkeys (Equus asinus) in China ...

    Authors: Xiao-Xuan Zhang, Fu-Kai Zhang, Fa-Cai Li, Jun-Ling Hou, Wen-Bin Zheng, Shuai-Zhi Du, Quan Zhao and Xing-Quan Zhu
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:3
  28. The simian malaria parasite Plasmodium knowlesi has been reported to cause significant numbers of human infection in South East Asia. Its merozoite surface protein-3 (MSP3) is a protein that belongs to a multi-ge...

    Authors: Jeremy Ryan De Silva, Yee Ling Lau and Mun Yik Fong
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:2
  29. Clonorchiasis, a food-borne zoonosis, is caused by Clonorchis sinensis. The intestinal tract and bile ducts are crucial places for C. sinensis metacercariae to develop into adult worms. The endospore of Bacillus ...

    Authors: Zeli Tang, Mei Shang, Tingjin Chen, Pengli Ren, Hengchang Sun, Hongling Qu, Zhipeng Lin, Lina Zhou, Jinyun Yu, Hongye Jiang, Xinyi Zhou, Xuerong Li, Yan Huang, Jin Xu and Xinbing Yu
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:648
  30. Worldwide, mosquito vectors are transmitting several etiological agents of important human diseases, including malaria, causing millions of deaths every year. In Saudi Arabia, as elsewhere, vector-control is b...

    Authors: Talaat A. El-kersh, Ashraf M. Ahmed, Yazeed A. Al-sheikh, Frédéric Tripet, Mohamed S. Ibrahim and Ali A. M. Metwalli
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:647
  31. Elimination of urogenital schistosomiasis transmission is a priority for the Zanzibar Ministry of Health. Preventative chemotherapy together with additional control interventions have successfully alleviated m...

    Authors: Tom Pennance, Bobbie Person, Mtumweni Ali Muhsin, Alipo Naim Khamis, Juma Muhsin, Iddi Simba Khamis, Khalfan Abdallah Mohammed, Fatma Kabole, David Rollinson and Stefanie Knopp
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:646
  32. Transmission from the vertebrate host to the arthropod vector is a critical step in the life-cycle of any vector-borne pathogen. How the probability of host-to-vector transmission changes over the duration of ...

    Authors: Maxime Jacquet, Gabriele Margos, Volker Fingerle and Maarten J. Voordouw
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:645
  33. Mosquitoes of the Culex pipiens complex, competent vectors for West Nile virus (WNV) and Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) are widely targeted by insecticide treatments. The intensive application of chemical insecti...

    Authors: Meriem Bkhache, Fatim-Zohra Tmimi, Omar Charafeddine, Chafika Faraj, Anna-Bella Failloux and M’hammed Sarih
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:644
  34. Haemaphysalis erinacei is one of the few ixodid tick species for which valid names of subspecies exist. Despite their disputed taxonomic status in the literature, these subspecies have...

    Authors: Sándor Hornok, Yuanzhi Wang, Domenico Otranto, Adem Keskin, Riccardo Paolo Lia, Jenő Kontschán, Nóra Takács, Róbert Farkas and Attila D. Sándor
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:643
  35. In Argentina, only very few reports are available for canine tick-borne diseases where most are related to parasitic diseases. The objective of this survey was to investigate the prevalence of tick-borne patho...

    Authors: Patricia E. Mascarelli, Gustavo P. Tartara, Norma B. Pereyra and Ricardo G. Maggi
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:642
  36. Nucleoside diphosphate kinase b (NDKb) is responsible for nucleoside triphosphates synthesis and it has key role in the purine metabolism in trypanosomatid protozoans. Elongation factor 2 (EF2) is an important...

    Authors: Douglas S. Moreira and Silvane M. F. Murta
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:641
  37. Calreticulin proteins (CRTs) are important components of tick saliva, which is involved in the blood meal success, pathogen transmission and host allergic responses. The characterization of the genes encoding ...

    Authors: Daniele Porretta, Maria Stefania Latrofa, Filipe Dantas-Torres, Valentina Mastrantonio, Roberta Iatta, Domenico Otranto and Sandra Urbanelli
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:640
  38. Reduction of Lepeophtheirus salmonis infection in Atlantic salmon achieved by glucosinolates (GLs) from Brassica plants was recently reported. However, wider application of functional feeds based on GLs requires ...

    Authors: Stanko Skugor, Helle Jodaa Holm, Anne Kari Bjelland, Jorge Pino, Øystein Evensen, Aleksei Krasnov and Simon Wadsworth
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:639
  39. In Europe, Ixodes ricinus L. is the main vector of a variety of zoonotic pathogens, acquired through blood meals taken once per stage from a vertebrate host. Defining the main tick hosts in a given area is import...

    Authors: Margherita Collini, Francesca Albonico, Roberto Rosà, Valentina Tagliapietra, Daniele Arnoldi, Lorenza Conterno, Chiara Rossi, Michele Mortarino, Annapaola Rizzoli and Heidi Christine Hauffe
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:638
  40. An increase in effective malaria control since 2000 has contributed to a decline in global malaria morbidity and mortality. Knowing when and how existing interventions could be combined to maximise their impac...

    Authors: Victor A. Alegana, Simon P. Kigozi, Joaniter Nankabirwa, Emmanuel Arinaitwe, Ruth Kigozi, Henry Mawejje, Maxwell Kilama, Nick W. Ruktanonchai, Corrine W. Ruktanonchai, Chris Drakeley, Steve W. Lindsay, Bryan Greenhouse, Moses R. Kamya, David L. Smith, Peter M. Atkinson, Grant Dorsey…
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:637
  41. Triatomine bugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) are vectors of the flagellate Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas disease. The study of triatomine gut microbiota has gained relevance in the last years due to...

    Authors: Sebastián Díaz, Bianca Villavicencio, Nathália Correia, Jane Costa and Karen L. Haag
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:636
  42. Triatomines are blood-sucking vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas disease. During feeding, triatomines surpass the skin host response through biomolecules present in their saliva. Dendriti...

    Authors: Maria Tays Mendes, Tamires Marielem Carvalho-Costa, Marcos Vinicius da Silva, Ana Carolina Borella Marfil Anhê, Rafaela Mano Guimarães, Thiago Alvares da Costa, Luis Eduardo Ramirez, Virmondes Rodrigues and Carlo Jose Freire Oliveira
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:634
  43. There have been recent reports of surge in resistance to insecticides in pocketed areas in Ghana necessitating the need for information about local vector populations and their resistance to the insecticides a...

    Authors: Sandra Baffour-Awuah, Augustina A. Annan, Oumou Maiga-Ascofare, Soma Diloma Dieudonné, Priscilla Adjei-Kusi, Ellis Owusu-Dabo and Kwasi Obiri-Danso
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:633
  44. Culex mosquitoes are vectors of several bird-hosted arboviruses that cause outbreaks in Europe, such as Sindbis virus and West Nile virus. Recently, the human-biting form of Culex pipiens

    Authors: Jenny C. Hesson, Martina Schäfer and Jan O. Lundström
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:632
  45. The evolutionary history and ecological associations of Trypanosoma cruzi, the need to identify genetic markers that can distinguish parasite subpopulations, and understanding the parasite’s evolutionary and sele...

    Authors: Amaia Izeta-Alberdi, Carlos N. Ibarra-Cerdeña, David A. Moo-Llanes and Janine M. Ramsey
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:631
  46. Cryptocaryon irritans is an obligate ectoparasitic ciliate pathogen of marine fishes. It can infect most marine teleosts and cause heavy economic losses in aquaculture. There is curren...

    Authors: Ze-Quan Mo, Yan-Wei Li, Hai-Qing Wang, Jiu-Le Wang, Lu-Yun Ni, Man Yang, Guo-Feng Lao, Xiao-Chun Luo, An-Xing Li and Xue-Ming Dan
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:630
  47. Acaricides are used to treat and prevent tick infestations, and a common clinical scenario is to administer an acaricide on observing an attached tick. Consequently, immediate acaricidal efficacy (onset of act...

    Authors: Federica Burgio, Leon Meyer and Rob Armstrong
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:626

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