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  1. Canine leishmaniosis (CanL) caused by Leishmania infantum can have several dermatological manifestations. The type of immune response elicited against the parasite appears to be at the basis for such clinical var...

    Authors: Laura Ordeix, Sara Montserrat-Sangrà, Pamela Martínez-Orellana, Marta Baxarias and Laia Solano-Gallego

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:575

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  2. Onchocerciasis is a priority neglected tropical disease targeted for elimination by 2025. The standard strategy to combat onchocerciasis is annual Community-Directed Treatment with ivermectin (CDTi). Yet, high...

    Authors: Samuel Wanji, Theobald Mue Nji, Louise Hamill, Laura Dean, Kim Ozano, Abdel J. Njouendou, Raphael A. Abong, Elisabeth Dibando Obie, Andrew Amuam, Relindis Ekanya, Winston Patrick Chounna Ndongmo, Bertrand L. Ndzeshang, Ebua Gallus Fung, Dum-Buo Nnamdi, Desmond Akumtoh Nkimbeng, Samuel Teghen…

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:574

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  3. Snails such as Galba truncatula are hosts for trematode flukes causing fascioliasis, a zoonosis that is a major public health problem. Galba truncatula has recently been shown to be a cryptic species complex. Afr...

    Authors: Anna Mahulu, Catharina Clewing, Björn Stelbrink, Fred D. Chibwana, Immaculate Tumwebaze, J. Russell Stothard and Christian Albrecht

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:573

    Content type: Research

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  4. In the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico, Triatoma dimidiata is the main vector of Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas disease. Little effort has been made to identify blood meal sources of T. dimidiata in n...

    Authors: Joel Israel Moo-Millan, Audrey Arnal, Silvia Pérez-Carrillo, Anette Hernandez-Andrade, María-Jesús Ramírez-Sierra, Miguel Rosado-Vallado, Eric Dumonteil and Etienne Waleckx

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:572

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  5. There are only limited number of reports on molecular epidemiology of Cryptosporidium spp. and Giardia duodenalis in dogs and cats in China. This study was conducted to assess the infection rates, genetic identit...

    Authors: Jiayu Li, Xiaoyu Dan, Kexin Zhu, Na Li, Yaqiong Guo, Zezhong Zheng, Yaoyu Feng and Lihua Xiao

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:571

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  6. Currently, serodiagnosis of infection with the helminth parasite Onchocerca volvulus is limited to the Ov-16 IgG4 test, a test that has limited sensitivity and suboptimal specificity. In previous studies, we iden...

    Authors: Ole Lagatie, Elodie Granjon, Maurice R. Odiere, Maan Zrein and Lieven J. Stuyver

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:570

    Content type: Methodology

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  7. Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae is a myxozoan parasite which causes economically important and emerging proliferative kidney disease (PKD) in salmonids. Brown trout, Salmo trutta is a native fish species of Europe,...

    Authors: Arun Sudhagar, Reinhard Ertl, Gokhlesh Kumar and Mansour El-Matbouli

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:569

    Content type: Research

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  8. Giardia duodenalis causes giardiasis, with diarrhea as the primary symptom. The trophozoite proliferation of this zoonotic parasite is mainly affected by telomerase, although the mechanism of telomerase regulatio...

    Authors: Jing-Tong Zheng, Nan Zhang, Yan-Hui Yu, Peng-Tao Gong, Xian-He Li, Na Wu, Can Wang, Xiao-Cen Wang, Xin Li, Jian-Hua Li and Xi-Chen Zhang

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:568

    Content type: Research

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  9. A question of epidemiological relevance in Chagas disease studies is to understand Trypanosoma cruzi transmission cycles and trace the origins of (re)emerging cases in areas under vector or disease surveillance. ...

    Authors: Diana P. Wehrendt, Andrea Gómez-Bravo, Juan C. Ramirez, Carolina Cura, Angélica Pech-May, Janine M. Ramsey, Marcelo Abril, Felipe Guhl and Alejandro G. Schijman

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:567

    Content type: Methodology

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  11. The intestinal parasite Blastocystis is found in humans and animals around the world. It is spread through the consumption of contaminated food and water and has been associated with a variety of intestinal sympt...

    Authors: Liliana Rojas-Velázquez, Jenny G. Maloney, Aleksey Molokin, Patricia Morán, Angélica Serrano-Vázquez, Enrique González, Horacio Pérez-Juárez, Cecilia Ximénez and Monica Santin

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:566

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  12. Human schistosomiasis is the second most important tropical disease and occurs in two forms in Africa (intestinal and urogenital) caused by the digenetic trematodes Schistosoma mansoni and Schistosoma haematobium

    Authors: Immaculate Tumwebaze, Catharina Clewing, Marie Claire Dusabe, Julius Tumusiime, Grace Kagoro-Rugunda, Cyril Hammoud and Christian Albrecht

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:565

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  13. Porcine cysticercosis has a negative impact on human health and the meat industry, as it makes infected meat unaproprieted for consuption and it is the main etiology of epileptic seizures in developing countri...

    Authors: Noemia Nhancupe, Emilia V. Noormahomed, Sonia Afonso, Staffan Svard and Johan Lindh

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:564

    Content type: Short report

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  14. The salmon louse (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) infests farmed and wild salmonid fishes, causing considerable economic damage to the salmon farming industry. Infestations of farmed salmon are controlled using a combin...

    Authors: Joseph L. Humble, Greta Carmona-Antoñanzas, Carol M. McNair, David R. Nelson, David I. Bassett, Ingibjørg Egholm, James E. Bron, Michaël Bekaert and Armin Sturm

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:563

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  15. Reunion Island regularly faces outbreaks of epizootic haemorrhagic disease (EHD) and bluetongue (BT), two viral diseases transmitted by haematophagous midges of the genus Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) to ...

    Authors: Yannick Grimaud, Hélène Guis, Frédéric Chiroleu, Floriane Boucher, Annelise Tran, Ignace Rakotoarivony, Maxime Duhayon, Catherine Cêtre-Sossah, Olivier Esnault, Eric Cardinale and Claire Garros

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:562

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  16. Aedes aegypti, the vector of dengue fever, was first reported in Yunnan in 2002. Now, this species is found in nine counties in border areas of south-west Yunnan. Related dengue fever outbreaks have been reported...

    Authors: Pengbo Liu, Liang Lu, Jinyong Jiang, Yuhong Guo, Mingdong Yang and Qiyong Liu

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:561

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  17. Tapeworms lack a canonical piRNA-pathway, raising the question of how they can silence existing mobile genetic elements (MGE). Investigation towards the underlying mechanisms requires information on tapeworm t...

    Authors: Michaela Herz and Klaus Brehm

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:560

    Content type: Research

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  18. The ecology of many mosquitoes, including Anopheles farauti, the dominant malaria vector in the southwest Pacific including the Solomon Islands, remains inadequately understood. Studies to map fine scale vector d...

    Authors: Edgar J. M. Pollard, Tanya L. Russell, Allan Apairamo and Thomas R. Burkot

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:558

    Content type: Research

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  19. Transmission of malaria in the highlands of Ethiopia is poorly understood and usually attributed to importation by mobile populations or local transmission by Anopheles arabiensis. To characterize and identify An...

    Authors: Wossenseged Lemma, Kassahune Alemu, Meserete Birhanie, Ligabaw Worku, Julie Niedbalski, Mary Ann McDowell and Neil F. Lobo

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:557

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  20. The aim of this study was to assess potential associations between Giardia duodenalis infection in dogs, as determined by three diagnostic tests, and dog’s group of origin, fecal consistency, age, sex, neuter sta...

    Authors: Mathilde Uiterwijk, Rolf Nijsse, Frans N. J. Kooyman, Jaap A. Wagenaar, Lapo Mughini-Gras and Harm W. Ploeger

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:556

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  21. Oxyspirura petrowi (Spirurida: Thelaziidae), a heteroxenous nematode of birds across the USA, may play a role in the decline of the northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) in the Rolling Plains Ecoregion of West ...

    Authors: Aravindan Kalyanasundaram, Matthew Z. Brym, Kendall R. Blanchard, Cassandra Henry, Kalin Skinner, Brett J. Henry, Jessica Herzog, Alyssa Hay and Ronald J. Kendall

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:555

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  22. The threat of mosquito-borne diseases is increasing in continental Europe as demonstrated by several autochthonous chikungunya, dengue and West Nile virus outbreaks. In Switzerland, despite the presence of com...

    Authors: Nadja C. Wipf, Valeria Guidi, Mauro Tonolla, Michela Ruinelli, Pie Müller and Olivier Engler

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:554

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  23. The northern fowl mite (NFM), Ornithonyssus sylviarum, is an obligatory hematophagous ectoparasite of birds and one of the most important pests in the poultry industry on several continents. Although NFM poses a ...

    Authors: Biswajit Bhowmick, Jianguo Zhao, Øivind Øines, Tianlin Bi, Chenghong Liao, Lei Zhang and Qian Han

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:553

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  24. The Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, is one of the 100 worst invasive species in the world and the vector for several arboviruses including dengue, Zika and chikungunya viruses. Understanding the populatio...

    Authors: Yong Wei, Jiatian Wang, Zhangyao Song, Yulan He, Zihao Zheng, Peiyang Fan, Dizi Yang, Guofa Zhou, Daibin Zhong and Xueli Zheng

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:552

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  25. Ixodes ricinus is the predominant tick species in Europe and the primary pathogen vector for both humans and animals. These ticks are frequently involved in the transmission of Borrelia burgdorferi (sensu lato), ...

    Authors: Emilie Lejal, Maud Marsot, Karine Chalvet-Monfray, Jean-François Cosson, Sara Moutailler, Muriel Vayssier-Taussat and Thomas Pollet

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:551

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  26. In order to evaluate the risk of human exposure to tick-borne pathogens in Belgium, a study on the prevalence of several pathogens was conducted on feeding ticks removed from humans in 2017.

    Authors: Tinne Lernout, Nick De Regge, Katrien Tersago, Manoj Fonville, Vanessa Suin and Hein Sprong

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:550

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  28. Avian malaria parasites are a highly diverse group that commonly infect birds and have deleterious effects on their hosts. Some parasite lineages are geographically widespread and infect many host species in m...

    Authors: Martina Ferraguti, Josué Martínez-de la Puente, Luz García-Longoria, Ramón Soriguer, Jordi Figuerola and Alfonso Marzal

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:548

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  29. Following publication of the original article [1], the have authors flagged that the information in the legend of Fig. 1 is detailed in the wrong order.

    Authors: John A. Ohiolei, Joshua Luka, Guo-Qiang Zhu, Hong-Bin Yan, Li Li, Abdullahi A. Magaji, Mughees A. Alvi, Yan-Tao Wu, Jian-Qiu Li, Bao-Quan Fu and Wan-Zhong Jia

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:547

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    The original article was published in Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:520

  30. Merozoite proteins of the malaria parasites involved in the invasion of red blood cells are selected by host immunity and their diversity is greatly influenced by changes in malaria epidemiology. In the Greate...

    Authors: Yubing Hu, Lin Wang, Huguette Gaelle Ngassa Mbenda, Myat Thu Soe, Chunyun Yu, Hui Feng, Myat Phone Kyaw, Liwang Cui, Xiaotong Zhu and Yaming Cao

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:546

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  32. Long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) are the primary method of malaria prevention. However, the widespread resistance to pyrethroids among major malaria vector species represents a significant threat to the ...

    Authors: Welbeck A. Oumbouke, Mark Rowland, Alphonsine A. Koffi, Ludovic P. A. Alou, Soromane Camara and Raphael N’Guessan

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:544

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  33. Cryptosporidium spp. and Giardia duodenalis are major intestinal pathogens that can cause diarrheal diseases in humans, especially children. Enterocytozoon bieneusi is another parasite which can cause gastrointes...

    Authors: Fuchang Yu, Dongfang Li, Yankai Chang, Yayun Wu, Zhenxin Guo, Liting Jia, Jinling Xu, Junqiang Li, Meng Qi, Rongjun Wang and Longxian Zhang

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:543

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  34. Larvae of Echinococcus granulosus (sensu lato) dwell in host organs for a long time but elicit only a mild inflammatory response, which indicates that the resolution of host inflammation is necessary for parasite...

    Authors: Hui Wang, Chuan-Shan Zhang, Bin-Bin Fang, Zhi-De Li, Liang Li, Xiao-Juan Bi, Wen-Ding Li, Ning Zhang, Ren-Yong Lin and Hao Wen

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:542

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  35. Dengue is an arbovirus disease that threatens approximately 200 million people annually worldwide. Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti (Linnaeus, 1762) is anthropophilic mosquito, extremely well adapted to the urban enviro...

    Authors: Rafael Piovezan, Alexandre Visockas, Thiago Salomão de Azevedo, Cláudio José Von Zuben and Maria Anice Mureb Sallum

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:541

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  36. Trachoma is the leading infectious cause of blindness globally. The WHO has recommended the SAFE (Surgery, Antibiotics, Facial cleanliness and Environmental improvements) strategy to eliminate trachoma as a pu...

    Authors: Forest M. Altherr, Andrew W. Nute, Mulat Zerihun, Eshetu Sata, Aisha E. P. Stewart, Demelash Gessese, Berhanu Melak, Tigist Astale, Gedefaw Ayenew, E. Kelly Callahan, Melsew Chanyalew, Bizuayehu Gashaw, Lance A. Waller, Zerihun Tadesse and Scott D. Nash

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:540

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  37. Malaria vector control and research rely heavily on monitoring mosquito populations for the development of resistance to public health insecticides. One standard method for determining resistance in adult mosq...

    Authors: Sean Tomlinson, Henrietta Carrington Yates, Ambrose Oruni, Harun Njoroge, David Weetman, Martin J. Donnelly and Arjen E Van’t Hof

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:539

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  38. Acanthamoeba is well known to produce a blinding keratitis and serious brain infection known as encephalitis. Effective treatment is problematic, and can continue up to a year, and even then, recurrence can ensue...

    Authors: Ruqaiyyah Siddiqui, Stephen K. Roberts, Timothy Yu Yee Ong, Mohammad Ridwane Mungroo, Areeba Anwar and Naveed Ahmed Khan

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:538

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  39. It has been reported that there are more than ten antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) belonging to the cecropin family in Musca domestica; however, few of them have been identified, and the functions of the other molec...

    Authors: Jian Peng, Zhaoying Wu, Weiwei Liu, Huiling Long, Guiming Zhu, Guo Guo and Jianwei Wu

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:537

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  40. Knowledge of Ixodes ricinus tick distribution is critical for surveillance and risk management of transmissible tick-borne diseases such as Lyme borreliosis. However, as the ecology of I. ricinus is complex, and ...

    Authors: Rita Ribeiro, Jude I. Eze, Lucy Gilbert, G. R. William Wint, George Gunn, Alastair Macrae, Jolyon M. Medlock and Harriet Auty

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:536

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  41. Red deer (Cervus elaphus) are a common wild definitive host for liver fluke (Fasciola hepatica) that have been the subject of limited diagnostic surveillance. This study aimed to explore the extent to which copro...

    Authors: Andrew S. French, Ruth N. Zadoks, Philip J. Skuce, Gillian Mitchell, Danielle K. Gordon-Gibbs and Mark A. Taggart

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:535

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  42. Malaria, one of the largest health burdens worldwide, is caused by Plasmodium spp. infection. Upon infection, the host’s immune system begins to clear the parasites. However, Plasmodium species have evolved to es...

    Authors: Yiwei Zhang, Ning Jiang, Ting Zhang, Ran Chen, Ying Feng, Xiaoyu Sang, Na Yang and Qijun Chen

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:534

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  43. The maintenance of genomic integrity is the responsibility of a complex network, denominated the DNA damage response (DDR), which controls the lesion detection and DNA repair. The main repair pathways are base...

    Authors: Maria Beatriz S. Mota, Marcelo Alex Carvalho, Alvaro N. A. Monteiro and Rafael D. Mesquita

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:533

    Content type: Review

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  44. Trypanosoma cruzi is the causative agent of Chagas disease, which is endemic to subtropical and tropical Americas. The disease treatment remains partially ineffective, involving therapies directed to the parasite...

    Authors: Ferdinando de Paula Silva, Cássia Mariana Bronzon da Costa, Luiz Miguel Pereira, Diego Fernando Silva Lessa, Dimitrius Leonardo Pitol, João Paulo Mardegan Issa, José Clóvis do Prado Júnior and Ana Amélia Carraro Abrahão

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:532

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  46. Scabies, caused by infestation of the mite Sarcoptes scabiei, is one of the most severe ectoparasitic diseases in rabbits. Scabies seriously affects the commercial rabbit breeding, causing severe economic losses....

    Authors: Wenrui Wei, Yongjun Ren, Nengxing Shen, Hongyu Song, Jing Xu, Ruiqi Hua, Haojie Zhang, Christiana Angel, Xiaobin Gu, Liangde Kuang, Yue Xie, Xuerong Peng, Xiaohong Xie and Guangyou Yang

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:530

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  47. Some researchers have reported that Toxoplasma gondii can cause serious reproductive impairment in male animals. Specifically, T. gondii destroy the quality of sperm in the epididymis, which affects their sexual ...

    Authors: Yu-Xiang Zheng, Xiu-Xiang Zhang, Jorge A. Hernandez, Yasser S. Mahmmod, Wan-Yi Huang, Gui-Feng Li, Ya-Pei Wang, Xue Zhou, Xiu-Ming Li and Zi-Guo Yuan

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:529

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  48. Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a neglected disease that is spread to humans by the bites of infected female phlebotomine sand flies. Although this vector-borne disease has been eliminated in most parts of Chin...

    Authors: Fangyu Ding, Qian Wang, Jingying Fu, Shuai Chen, Mengmeng Hao, Tian Ma, Canjun Zheng and Dong Jiang

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:528

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  49. The main clinical forms of leishmaniasis in Bangladesh are visceral leishmaniasis and post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis, which are caused by Leishmania donovani. Imported cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is emergin...

    Authors: Md Anik Ashfaq Khan, Rajashree Chowdhury, Rupen Nath, Sören Hansen, Progga Nath, Shomik Maruf, Ahmed Abd El Wahed and Dinesh Mondal

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:527

    Content type: Short report

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  50. Bovine babesiosis is caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Babesia and presents a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations. Disease severity depends on the type of Babesia species infection. Generally, B. bo...

    Authors: Jinming Wang, Aihong Liu, Shangdi Zhang, Shandian Gao, Muhammad Rashid, Youquan Li, Junlong Liu, Quanying Ma, Zhi Li, Zhijie Liu, Jianxun Luo, Guiquan Guan and Hong Yin

    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:523

    Content type: Research

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