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  1. Toxoplasma gondii is a worldwide spread pathogen which can infect all tissues of its host. The transcriptomic responses of infected brain and spleen have been reported. However, our kn...

    Authors: Jun-Jun He, Jun Ma, Hany M. Elsheikha, Hui-Qun Song, Si-Yang Huang and Xing-Quan Zhu
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:427
  2. Lake Tanganyika is the world’s second deepest lake. Its diverse cichlid assemblage offers a unique opportunity for studying a deep-water host-parasite model in freshwater. Low host specificity and a broad host...

    Authors: Nikol Kmentová, Milan Gelnar, Stephan Koblmüller and Maarten P. M. Vanhove
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:426
  3. The cattle tick Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus is an economically important parasite of livestock. Effective control of ticks using acaricides is threatened by the emergence of resistance to many existing co...

    Authors: H. H. Caline Koh-Tan, Erin Strachan, Katherine Cooper, Lesley Bell-Sakyi and Nicholas N. Jonsson
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:425
  4. Glossina m. morsitans is the primary vector of the Trypanosoma brucei group, one of the causative agents of African trypanosomoses. The parasites undergo metacyclogenesis, i.e. transfo...

    Authors: Henry M. Kariithi, Sjef Boeren, Edwin K. Murungi, Just M. Vlak and Adly M. M. Abd-Alla
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:424
  5. Angiostrongylus daskalovi is a rare cardiopulmonary nematode infecting badgers. The parasite was described in 1988 and, since then, found only once in mustelids in Europe. The present ...

    Authors: Călin Mircea Gherman, Georgiana Deak, Ioana Adriana Matei, Angela Monica Ionică, Gianluca D’Amico, Marian Taulescu, Lucian Barbu-Tudoran, Alexandru Sarmaşi, Andrei Daniel Mihalca and Vasile Cozma
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:423
  6. The strongylid nematode Haemonchus contortus is a parasite of major concern for modern livestock husbandry because hostile environmental conditions may induce diapause in the early fourth-stage larvae.

    Authors: Xiaolu Guo, Hongli Zhang, Xiuping Zheng, Qianjin Zhou, Yi Yang, Xueqiu Chen and Aifang Du
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:422
  7. Canine vector-borne diseases (CVBD) have become a major concern for canine and human public health. The aim of the study described here is to add epidemiological data regarding four pathogens responsible for C...

    Authors: Rebeca Movilla, Carlos García, Susanne Siebert and Xavier Roura
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:421
  8. Monogenea is a diverse group of ectoparasites showing great potential as sentinel organisms for monitoring environmental health. Exposure to metals negatively affects infrapopulations of monogeneans and exposu...

    Authors: Beric M. Gilbert and Annemariè Avenant-Oldewage
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:420
  9. Dengue (DENV), Chikungunya (CHIKV), Zika (ZIKV), as well as yellow fever (YFV) viruses are transmitted to humans by Aedes spp. females. In Salvador, the largest urban center in north-eastern Brazil, the four DENV...

    Authors: Igor Adolfo Dexheimer Paploski, Moreno S. Rodrigues, Vánio André Mugabe, Mariana Kikuti, Aline S. Tavares, Mitermayer Galvão Reis, Uriel Kitron and Guilherme Sousa Ribeiro
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:419
  10. Repellents such as coils, vaporizers, mats and creams can be used to reduce the risk of malaria and other infectious diseases. Although evidence for their effectiveness is limited, they are advertised as provi...

    Authors: Anna Maria van Eijk, Lalitha Ramanathapuram, Patrick L. Sutton, Nandini Peddy, Sandhya Choubey, Stuti Mohanty, Aswin Asokan, Sangamithra Ravishankaran, G Sri Lakshmi Priya, Justin Amala Johnson, Sangeetha Velayutham, Deena Kanagaraj, Ankita Patel, Nisha Desai, Nikunj Tandel, Steven A. Sullivan…
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:418
  11. Mutation in the voltage-gated sodium channel gene that results in knockdown resistance (kdr), is a major mechanism of pyrethroid resistance in several mosquito species. In Aedes aegypti, V1016G (occurring with an...

    Authors: Suriya Plernsub, Jassada Saingamsook, Jintana Yanola, Nongkran Lumjuan, Pongsri Tippawangkosol, Kom Sukontason, Catherine Walton and Pradya Somboon
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:417
  12. Genotyping malaria parasites to assess their diversity in different geographic settings have become necessary for the selection of antigenic epitopes for vaccine development and for antimalarial drug efficacy ...

    Authors: Nancy O. Duah, Sena A. Matrevi, Neils B. Quashie, Benjamin Abuaku and Kwadwo A. Koram
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:416
  13. Insect-specific viruses do not replicate in vertebrate cells, but persist in mosquito populations and are highly prevalent in nature. These viruses may naturally regulate the transmission of pathogenic vertebr...

    Authors: Sonja Hall-Mendelin, Breeanna J. McLean, Helle Bielefeldt-Ohmann, Jody Hobson-Peters, Roy A. Hall and Andrew F. van den Hurk
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:414
  14. Leishmania parasites are transmitted by phlebotomine sand flies and a crucial step in their life-cycle is the binding to the sand fly midgut. Laboratory studies on sand fly competence ...

    Authors: Jitka Myšková, Anna Dostálová, Lucie Pěničková, Petr Halada, Paul A. Bates and Petr Volf
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:413
  15. Although the entomotoxicity of plant ureases has been reported almost 20 years ago, their insecticidal mechanism of action is still not well understood. Jaburetox is a recombinant peptide derived from one of t...

    Authors: Leonardo L. Fruttero, Natalia R. Moyetta, Augusto F. Uberti, Matheus V. Coste Grahl, Fernanda C. Lopes, Valquiria Broll, Denise Feder and Celia R. Carlini
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:412
  16. Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a lethal zoonosis caused by the fox-tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis. The disease is difficult to treat and an effective therapeutic drug is urgently needed. Reliable models ar...

    Authors: Hui Wang, Jun Li, Baoping Guo, Li Zhao, Zhuangzhi Zhang, Donald P. McManus, Hao Wen and Wenbao Zhang
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:411
  17. Lake Tana is the largest lake in Ethiopia and the source of the Blue Nile. The lake harbours unique endemic cyprinid fish species, as well as the commercially important endemic Nile tilapia subspecies Oreochromis...

    Authors: Moges Beletew, Abebe Getahun and Maarten P. M. Vanhove
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:410
  18. In 2012, the Kenyan Ministries of Health and of Education began a programme to deworm all school-age children living in areas at high risk of soil-transmitted helminths (STH) and schistosome infections. The im...

    Authors: Collins Okoyo, Birgit Nikolay, Jimmy Kihara, Elses Simiyu, Joshua V. Garn, Mathew C. Freeman, Mariam T. Mwanje, Dunstan A. Mukoko, Simon J. Brooker, Rachel L. Pullan, Sammy M. Njenga and Charles S. Mwandawiro
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:408
  19. Dog owners and veterinarians in small animal practices began to waive prevention of canine heartworm disease after heartworm infections seemed to have disappeared in Brazil. After 2013, infection rates rebound...

    Authors: Maria de Fátima Chicarino Varajão Moraes-da-Silva, Flavya Mendes-de-Almeida, Livia Abdalla, Alexandre Merlo, Jonimar Pereira Paiva and Norma Vollmer Labarthe
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:407
  20. Culex tritaeniorhynchus and Culex pipiens pallens are the major vectors of the Japanese encephalitis virus and Wuchereria bancrofti, the causative agent of filariasis. The knowledge of...

    Authors: Qian-Chun Luo, You-Jin Hao, Fengxia Meng, Ting-Jing Li, Yi-Ran Ding, Ya-Qiong Hua and Bin Chen
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:406
  21. Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular parasite of the phylum Apicomplexa and a major pathogen of animals and immunocompromised humans, in whom it causes encephalitis. Understa...

    Authors: Kentaro Kato, Tatsuki Sugi, Hitoshi Takemae, Ryo Takano, Haiyan Gong, Akiko Ishiwa, Taisuke Horimoto and Hiroomi Akashi
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:405
  22. The extreme, isolated environment within the Antarctic Convergence has fuelled the evolution of a highly endemic fauna with unique adaptations. One species known from this area is the Whitson’s grenadier Macrouru...

    Authors: Julian Münster, Judith Kochmann, Sven Klimpel, Regina Klapper and Thomas Kuhn
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:403
  23. Although neglected, the mite Sarcoptes scabiei is an unpredictable emerging parasite, threatening human and animal health globally. In this paper we report the first fatal outbreak of sarcoptic mange in the endan...

    Authors: Khalid Hameed, Samer Angelone-Alasaad, Jaffar Ud Din, Muhammad Ali Nawaz and Luca Rossi
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:402
  24. Leishmania and other trypanosomatid parasites possess atypical mechanisms of gene expression, including the maturation of mRNAs by trans-splicing and the involvement of RNA Polymerase ...

    Authors: Saúl Rojas-Sánchez, Elisa Figueroa-Angulo, Rodrigo Moreno-Campos, Luis E. Florencio-Martínez, Rebeca G. Manning-Cela and Santiago Martínez-Calvillo
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:401
  25. The dire lack of information concerning the epidemiology of human scabies in Cameroon, especially in school milieus brought us to undertake the present study which aimed to determine the prevalence and associa...

    Authors: Emmanuel Armand Kouotou, Jobert Richie N. Nansseu, Michèle K. Kouawa and Anne-Cécile Zoung-Kanyi Bissek
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:400
  26. The lone star tick, Amblyomma americanum, infests dogs and cats in North America and transmits the pathogens Ehrlichia chaffeensis and Ehrlichia ewingii, which cause monocytic and granulocytic ehrlichiosis in dog...

    Authors: Robert H. Six, David R. Young, Melanie R. Myers and Sean P. Mahabir
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:399
  27. Intestinal parasitic infections (IPIs) are still major health problems in many developing countries including Malaysia, particularly in the poor and socioeconomically deprived rural and remote communities in P...

    Authors: Fatin Nur Elyana, Hesham M. Al-Mekhlafi, Init Ithoi, Awatif M. Abdulsalam, Salwa Dawaki, Nabil A. Nasr, Wahib M. Atroosh, Mohamad Hafiz Abd-Basher, Mona A. Al-Areeqi, Hany Sady, Lahvanya R. Subramaniam, Tengku Shahrul Anuar, Yee Ling Lau, Norhayati Moktar and Johari Surin
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:398
  28. Mosquitoes host and pass on to humans a variety of disease-causing pathogens such as infectious viruses and other parasitic microorganisms. The emergence and spread of insecticide resistance is threatening the...

    Authors: Ana Caroline Dalla Bona, Rodrigo Faitta Chitolina, Marise Lopes Fermino, Lisiane de Castro Poncio, Avital Weiss, José Bento Pereira Lima, Nitzan Paldi, Emerson Soares Bernardes, Jonathan Henen and Eyal Maori
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:397
  29. Light is known to excite photosensitizers (PS) to produce cytotoxic reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the presence of oxygen. This modality is attractive for designing control measures against animal diseases a...

    Authors: Kwang Poo Chang and Bala K. Kolli
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:396
  30. Enterocytozoon bieneusi is a common opportunistic pathogen that is widely detected in humans, domestic animals and wildlife, and poses a challenge to public health. The present study w...

    Authors: Wei Li, Lei Deng, Xingming Yu, Zhijun Zhong, Qiang Wang, Xuehan Liu, Lili Niu, Na Xie, Jiabo Deng, Shuangshuang Lei, Liqin Wang, Chao Gong, Ziyao Zhou, Yanchun Hu, Hualin Fu, Huailiang Xu…
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:395
  31. The prolonged feeding process of ixodid ticks, in combination with bacterial transmission, should lead to a robust inflammatory response at the blood-feeding site. Yet, factors present in tick saliva may down-...

    Authors: Dorothy C. Scholl, Monica E. Embers, John R. Caskey, Deepak Kaushal, Thomas N. Mather, Wayne R. Buck, Lisa A. Morici and Mario T. Philipp
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:394
  32. Outbreaks of West Nile virus (WNV) have not occurred in northern Europe despite nearby circulation of WNV in the southern part of the continent. The main vector for WNV, the mosquito Culex (Cx.) pipiens, consists...

    Authors: Chantal B. F. Vogels, Jelke J. Fros, Giel P. Göertz, Gorben P. Pijlman and Constantianus J. M. Koenraadt
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:393
  33. The efficacy of fluralaner, formulated as a chewable tablet (Bravecto™) or topical solution (Bravecto™ Spot-on Solution), was evaluated against naturally acquired Sarcoptes scabiei var. canis infestation in dogs.

    Authors: Janina Taenzler, Julian Liebenberg, Rainer K. A. Roepke, Régis Frénais and Anja R. Heckeroth
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:392
  34. The epidemiology of avian hematozoa at high latitudes is still not well understood, particularly in sub-Arctic and Arctic habitats, where information is limited regarding seasonality and range of transmission,...

    Authors: Brandt W. Meixell, Todd W. Arnold, Mark S. Lindberg, Matthew M. Smith, Jonathan A. Runstadler and Andrew M. Ramey
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:390
  35. Feline aelurostrongylosis, caused by the metastrongyloid nematode Aelurostrongylus abstrusus, is an important gastropod-borne parasitic lung disease in cats. Infection with A. abstrusus is widespread globally, bu...

    Authors: Hany M. Elsheikha, Manuela Schnyder, Donato Traversa, Angela Di Cesare, Ian Wright and David W. Lacher
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:389
  36. The national burden of genito-urinary schistosomiasis in Nigeria has been expressed by an estimate of 101.3 million people at risk with an alarming figure of 29 million infected. Report obtained from responden...

    Authors: Tolulope Ebenezer Atalabi, Umar Lawal and Simeon Johnson Ipinlaye
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:388
  37. Anthropogenic land use changes have contributed considerably to the rise of emerging and re-emerging mosquito-borne diseases. These diseases appear to be increasing as a result of the novel juxtapositions of h...

    Authors: Dagmar B. Meyer Steiger, Scott A. Ritchie and Susan G. W. Laurance
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:387
  38. Comments on the article “Regulation of immunity during visceral Leishmania infection” published in Parasites & Vectors 2016, 9:118, and further discussions about the role of antibodies in infections with Leishman...

    Authors: Luiz Gustavo Gardinassi and Isabel Kinney Ferreira de Miranda Santos
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:386
  39. Large-scale implementation of Indoor Residual Spraying and Insecticide Treated Nets has been implemented in Plateau Department, Benin between 2011 and 2014. The purpose of this study was to monitor the frequen...

    Authors: Gildas A. Yahouédo, Sylvie Cornelie, Innocent Djègbè, Justine Ahlonsou, Sidick Aboubakar, Christophe Soares, Martin Akogbéto and Vincent Corbel
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:385
  40. The frequent outbreaks of human trichinellosis globally underscore the need to develop effective vaccine. We hypothesized that a novel vaccine could improve vaccine efficacy against Trichinella spiralis.

    Authors: Su-Hwa Lee, Sang-Soo Kim, Dong-Hun Lee, Ah-Ra Kim and Fu-Shi Quan
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:384
  41. Recombinant fusion proteins are now commonly used to detect circulating antibodies for the serodiagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in Asia, Africa and the Americas. Although simple, these tests still requ...

    Authors: Prakash Ghosh, Khondaker R. H. Bhaskar, Faria Hossain, Md Anik Ashfaq Khan, Aarthy C. Vallur, Malcolm S. Duthie, Shinjiro Hamano, Md Abdus Salam, M. Mamun Huda, Md Gulam Musawwir Khan, Rhea N. Coler, Steven G. Reed and Dinesh Mondal
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:383
  42. Trypanosoma cruzi multiplies and differentiates in the digestive tract of triatomine insects. Xenodiagnosis (XD) is a parasitological tool in which the insect vectors acts as a biologi...

    Authors: Miguel Saavedra, Inés Zulantay, Werner Apt, Juan Castillo, Eduardo Araya, Gabriela Martínez and Jorge Rodríguez
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:382
  43. Toscana virus (TOSV) is an arbovirus belonging to the Bunyaviridae, a family of negative-stranded, enveloped RNA viruses. The virus can be transmitted to humans through the bite of an infected female sand fly ...

    Authors: Mustapha Dahmani, Sulaf Alwassouf, Sébastien Grech-Angelini, Jean-Lou Marié, Bernard Davoust and Rémi N. Charrel
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:381
  44. The common scabies mite, Sarcoptes scabiei is a cosmopolitan parasite of humans and other mammals. An annotated genome of Sarcoptes scabiei var. canis has been deposited in the National Center for Biotechnology I...

    Authors: Larry G. Arlian, Marjorie S. Morgan and S. Dean Rider Jr
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:380
  45. Trypanosoma cruzi is dispersed in nature through many transmission mechanisms among a high diversity of vectors and mammalian species, representing particular behaviors and habitats. T...

    Authors: Fernanda Moreira Alves, Juliane Saab de Lima, Fabiana Lopes Rocha, Heitor Miraglia Herrera, Guilherme de Miranda Mourão and Ana Maria Jansen
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:378
  46. The tick species Ixodes ricinus and I. persulcatus are of exceptional medical importance in the western and eastern parts, respectively, of the Palaearctic region. In Russia and Finland the range of I. persulcatu...

    Authors: Thomas G. T. Jaenson, Kairi Värv, Isabella Fröjdman, Anu Jääskeläinen, Kaj Rundgren, Veerle Versteirt, Agustín Estrada-Peña, Jolyon M. Medlock and Irina Golovljova
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:377

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