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  1. The rickettsial bacterium Ehrlichia ruminantium is the causative agent of heartwater in ruminants. A better understanding of the population genetics of its different strains is, however, needed for the developmen...

    Authors: Ryo Nakao, Joseph W Magona, Lijia Zhou, Frans Jongejan and Chihiro Sugimoto
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:137
  2. The poultry red mite (PRM), Dermanyssus gallinae (D.g.) is a serious ectoparasitic pest of poultry and potential pathogen vector. The prevalence of D. g. and the prevalence of Salmonella spp. within mites on infe...

    Authors: Afrim Hamidi, Kurtesh Sherifi, Skender Muji, Behlul Behluli, Fatgzim Latifi, Avni Robaj, Rezart Postoli, Claudia Hess, Michael Hess and Olivier Sparagano
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:136
  3. Only limited information is available about the occurrence of ticks and tick-borne pathogens in public parks, which are areas strongly influenced by human beings. For this reason, Ixodes ricinus were collected in...

    Authors: Sabine Schorn, Kurt Pfister, Holger Reulen, Monia Mahling and Cornelia Silaghi
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:135
  4. Lymphatic filariasis (LF) in Uganda is caused by Wuchereria bancrofti and transmitted by anopheline mosquitoes. The mainstay of elimination has been annual mass drug administration (MDA) with ivermectin and alben...

    Authors: Ruth A Ashton, Daniel J Kyabayinze, Tom Opio, Anna Auma, Tansy Edwards, Gabriel Matwale, Ambrose Onapa, Simon Brooker and Jan H Kolaczinski
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:134
  5. The most recent strategy for schistosomiasis control in the People's Republic of China aims to reduce the likelihood of environmental contamination of schistosome eggs. Despite considerable progress, it is bel...

    Authors: Guo-Jing Yang, Xiao-Nong Zhou, Le-Ping Sun, Feng Wu, Bo Zhong, Dong-Chuan Qiu, Jürg Utzinger and Corey JA Bradshaw
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:133
  6. Livestock fascioliasis is a problem throughout Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela, mainly in Andean areas where the disease also appears to affect humans. Transmission patterns and epidemiological scenarios of li...

    Authors: M Dolores Bargues, Patricio Artigas, Messaoud Khoubbane and Santiago Mas-Coma
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:132
  7. Blood flukes within the genus Schistosoma still remain a major cause of disease in the tropics and subtropics and the study of their evolution has been an area of major debate and research. With the advent of mod...

    Authors: Scott P Lawton, Hirohisa Hirai, Joe E Ironside, David A Johnston and David Rollinson
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:131
  8. Malaria mosquitoes spend a considerable part of their life in the aquatic stage, rendering them vulnerable to interventions directed to aquatic habitats. Recent successes of mosquito larval control have been r...

    Authors: Susan S Imbahale, Collins K Mweresa, Willem Takken and Wolfgang R Mukabana
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:130
  9. Alternative insecticides for the control of malaria and filarial vectors are of paramount need as resistance is increasing among classes of insecticides currently in use in the public health sector. In this st...

    Authors: Eliningaya J Kweka, Mramba Nyindo, Franklin Mosha and Ary G Silva
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:129
  10. The current status of insecticide resistance in mosquitoes and the effects of insecticides on non-target insect species have raised the need for alternative control methods for malaria vectors. Predation has b...

    Authors: Eliningaya J Kweka, Guofa Zhou, Thomas M Gilbreath III, Yaw Afrane, Mramba Nyindo, Andrew K Githeko and Guiyun Yan
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:128
  11. Fibrinogen-related proteins with lectin activity are believed to be part of the tick innate immune system. Several fibrinogen-related proteins have been described and characterised mainly on the basis of their...

    Authors: Jan Sterba, Jarmila Dupejova, Miroslav Fiser, Marie Vancova and Libor Grubhoffer
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:127
  12. Sand fly saliva has been postulated as a potential vaccine or as a vaccine component within multi component vaccine against leishmaniasis. It is important to note that these studies were performed using long-t...

    Authors: Sami Ben Hadj Ahmed, Belhassen Kaabi, Ifhem Chelbi, Saifeddine Cherni, Mohamed Derbali, Dhafer Laouini and Elyes Zhioua
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:126
  13. Resting mosquitoes can easily be collected using an aspirating device. The most commonly used mechanical aspirator is the CDC Backpack aspirator. Recently, a simple, and low-cost aspirator called the Prokopack...

    Authors: Marta F Maia, Ailie Robinson, Alex John, Joseph Mgando, Emmanuel Simfukwe and Sarah J Moore
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:124
  14. Schistosomes are parasitic helminths that infect humans through dermo-invasion while in contaminated water. Salmonella are also a common water-borne human pathogen that infects the gastrointestinal tract via the ...

    Authors: Alison E Barnhill, Ekaterina Novozhilova, Tim A Day and Steve A Carlson
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:123
  15. Glossina pallidipes has been implicated in the spread of sleeping sickness from southeastern Uganda into Kenya. Recent studies indicated resurgence of G. pallidipes in Lambwe Valley and southeastern Uganda after ...

    Authors: Johnson O Ouma, Jon S Beadell, Chaz Hyseni, Loyce M Okedi, Elliot S Krafsur, Serap Aksoy and Adalgisa Caccone
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:122
  16. An often confounding facet of the dynamics of malaria vectors is the aquatic larval habitat availability and suitable conditions under which they can thrive. Here, we investigated the impact of environmental f...

    Authors: Louis C Gouagna, Jean-Sébastien Dehecq, Romain Girod, Sebastien Boyer, Guy Lempérière and Didier Fontenille
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:121
  17. The basic function of the immune system is to protect an organism against infection in order to minimize the fitness costs of being infected. According to life-history theory, energy resources are in a trade-o...

    Authors: Karolína Rohlenová, Serge Morand, Pavel Hyršl, Soňa Tolarová, Martin Flajšhans and Andrea Šimková
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:120
  18. The emergence and massive spread of bluetongue in Western Europe during 2006-2008 had disastrous consequences for sheep and cattle production and confirmed the ability of Palaearctic Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopo...

    Authors: Elvina Viennet, Claire Garros, Renaud Lancelot, Xavier Allène, Laëtitia Gardès, Ignace Rakotoarivony, Didier Crochet, Jean-Claude Delécolle, Catherine Moulia, Thierry Baldet and Thomas Balenghien
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:119
  19. There is a need for improving the method for counting oocysts of Plasmodium berghei in the midgut of Anopheles mosquitoes. The two methods currently used, the formalin fixation method and the mercurochrome staini...

    Authors: Miho Usui, Shinya Fukumoto, Noboru Inoue and Shin-ichiro Kawazu
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:118
  20. Anopheles subpictus sensu lato, a widespread vector of malaria in Asia, is reportedly composed of four sibling species A-D based on distinct cytogenetic and morphological characteristics. However An. subpictus sp...

    Authors: Sinnathamby N Surendran, Pavillupillai J Jude and Ranjan Ramasamy
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:117
  21. Disability weights (DWs) are important for estimating burden of disease in terms of disability-adjusted life years. The previous practice of eliciting DWs by expert opinion has been challenged. More recent app...

    Authors: Thomas Fürst, Ivan Müller, Jean T Coulibaly, Adrien K Yao, Jürg Utzinger and Eliézer K N'Goran
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:116
  22. Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) is a high performance method for detecting DNA and holds promise for use in the molecular detection of infectious pathogens, including Plasmodium spp. However, in mos...

    Authors: Zhi-Yong Tao, Hua-Yun Zhou, Hui Xia, Sui Xu, Han-Wu Zhu, Richard L Culleton, Eun-Taek Han, Feng Lu, Qiang Fang, Ya-Ping Gu, Yao-Bao Liu, Guo-Ding Zhu, Wei-Ming Wang, Ju-Lin Li, Jun Cao and Qi Gao
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:115
  23. The first workshop towards the control of cestode zoonoses in Asia and Africa was held in Asahikawa Medical University, Japan on 15 and 16 Feb 2011. This meeting was fully supported by the Asian Science and Te...

    Authors: Akira Ito, Munehiro Okamoto, Tiaoying Li, Toni Wandra, Nyoman S Dharmawan, Kadek I Swastika, Paron Dekumyoy, Teera Kusolsuk, Abmed Davvajav, Anu Davaasuren, Temuulen Dorjsuren, Sissay M Mekonnen, Zerihun H Negasi, Tetsuya Yanagida, Yasuhito Sako, Minoru Nakao…
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:114
  24. Insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs) are known to be highly effective in reducing malaria morbidity and mortality. However, usage varies among households, and such variations in actual usage may seriously limit...

    Authors: Harrysone E Atieli, Guofa Zhou, Yaw Afrane, Ming-Chieh Lee, Isaac Mwanzo, Andrew K Githeko and Guiyun Yan
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:113
  25. Malaria vector intervention and control programs require reliable and accurate information about vector abundance and their seasonal distribution. The availability of reliable information on the spatial and te...

    Authors: Eliningaya J Kweka, Guofa Zhou, Ming-Chieh Lee, Thomas M Gilbreath III, Franklin Mosha, Stephen Munga, Andrew K Githeko and Guiyun Yan
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:110
  26. Understanding malaria vector mosquitoes and their infectivity dynamics is of importance in setting up intervention and control programmes. Patterns of malaria transmission have been shown to differ between non...

    Authors: Yousif E Himeidan, Mervet M Elzaki, Eliningaya J Kweka, Muntaser Ibrahim and Ibrahim M Elhassan
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:109
  27. Malaria is an important public health problem in Africa. Pregnant women are a vulnerable population and this disease can underlie an increased risk of low-birth weight newborns (< 2500 g); these women therefor...

    Authors: Tania CDA d'Almeida, Marie-Agnès Agboton-Zoumenou, André Garcia, Achille Massougbodji, Valérie Briand, Yacoubou Imorou and Gilles Cottrell
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:108
  28. Malaria vector control programmes that rely on insecticide-based interventions such as indoor house spraying with residual insecticides or insecticide treated bed nets, need to base their decision-making proce...

    Authors: Richard H Hunt, Godwin Fuseini, Steve Knowles, Joseph Stiles-Ocran, Rolf Verster, Maria L Kaiser, Kwang Shik Choi, Lizette L Koekemoer and Maureen Coetzee
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:107
  29. Despite growing awareness of the importance of controlling neglected tropical diseases as a contribution to poverty alleviation and achieving the Millennium Development Goals, there is a need to up-scale progr...

    Authors: David Molyneux, Zuhair Hallaj, Gerald T Keusch, Donald P McManus, Helena Ngowi, Sarah Cleaveland, Pilar Ramos-Jimenez, Eduardo Gotuzzo, Kamal Kar, Ana Sanchez, Amadou Garba, Helene Carabin, Amal Bassili, Claire L Chaignat, Francois-Xavier Meslin, Hind M Abushama…
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:106
  30. The insect gut harbors a variety of microorganisms that probably exceed the number of cells in insects themselves. These microorganisms can live and multiply in the insect, contributing to digestion, nutrition...

    Authors: Analiz de O Gaio, Desiely S Gusmão, Adão V Santos, Marília A Berbert-Molina, Paulo FP Pimenta and Francisco JA Lemos
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:105
  31. In Argentina, human fascioliasis has never been adequately analysed, although having a physiography, climate, animal prevalences and lymnaeids similar to those of countries where the disease is endemic such as...

    Authors: Roberto Mera y Sierra, Veronica H Agramunt, Pablo Cuervo and Santiago Mas-Coma
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:104
  32. Schistosomiasis japonica is a major public health problem in the endemic areas of China, the Philippines, and Indonesia. To date, a vaccine has not been developed against this disease but immunization with UV-...

    Authors: Dandan Lin, Fang Tian, Haiwei Wu, Yanan Gao, Jingjiao Wu, Donghui Zhang, Minjun Ji, Donald P McManus, Patrick Driguez and Guanling Wu
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:103
  33. Entamoeba histolytica is an important protozoan intestinal infection in resource-poor settings, including Vietnam. The study objective was to assess risk factors of E. histolytica infection in a community in Viet...

    Authors: Phuc Pham Duc, Hung Nguyen-Viet, Jan Hattendorf, Jakob Zinsstag, Phung Dac Cam and Peter Odermatt
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:102
  34. Liver flukes belonging to the genus Fasciola are among the causes of foodborne diseases of parasitic etiology. These parasites cause significant public health problems and substantial economic losses to the lives...

    Authors: Lin Ai, Mu-Xin Chen, Samer Alasaad, Hany M Elsheikha, Juan Li, Hai-Long Li, Rui-Qing Lin, Feng-Cai Zou, Xing-Quan Zhu and Jia-Xu Chen
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:101
  35. Historically, non-native species of Gambusia (Poeciliidae) have been used to control larval stages of the Asian tiger mosquito, Stegomyia albopicta Reinert, Harbach et Kitching, 2004 throughout Italy. The potenti...

    Authors: Giuseppe Paladini, Tine Huyse and Andrew P Shinn
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:100
  36. West Nile virus (WNV) is a widespread pathogen maintained in an enzootic cycle between mosquitoes and birds with occasional spill-over into dead-end hosts such as horses and humans. Migratory birds are believe...

    Authors: Assane G Fall, Amadou Diaïté, Renaud Lancelot, Annelise Tran, Valérie Soti, Eric Etter, Lassana Konaté, Ousmane Faye and Jérémy Bouyer
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:99
  37. Infections with the opisthorchid liver flukes Clonorchis sinensis, Opisthorchis viverrini, and O. felineus cause severe health problems globally, particularly in Southeast Asia. Early identification of the infect...

    Authors: Jiufeng Sun, Jin Xu, Pei Liang, Qiang Mao, Yan Huang, Xiaoli Lv, Chuanhuan Deng, Chi Liang, G S de Hoog and Xinbing Yu
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:98
  38. Schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH) are endemic in Sierra Leone confirmed by national mapping in 2008. To better inform planning of preventive chemotherapy strategy, another survey was con...

    Authors: Mary Hodges, Nsa Dada, Anna Wamsley, Jusufu Paye, Emanuel Nyorkor, Mustapha Sonnie, Guy Barnish, Moses Bockarie and Yaobi Zhang
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:97
  39. Paragonimiasis is a neglected tropical disease caused by an infection with lung flukes that is transmitted through the consumption of undercooked crabs. The disease is often confused with tuberculosis. Paragon...

    Authors: Sylvain G Traoré, Peter Odermatt, Bassirou Bonfoh, Jürg Utzinger, N'da D Aka, Koffi D Adoubryn, Aka Assoumou, Gilles Dreyfuss and Marina Koussémon
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:96
  40. Schistosomiasis remains a major public health concern that afflicts millions of people worldwide. Low levels of Schistosoma infection require more sensitive diagnostic methods. In this study, a time-resolved fluo...

    Authors: Chun-Yan Qian, Biao Huang, Chuan-Xin Yu, Jue Zhang, Xu-Ren Yin, Jie Wang, Li-Jun Song, Wei Zhang and Xue-Dan Ke
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:95
  41. Malaria remains a significant health problem in Yemen with Plasmodium falciparum being the predominant species which is responsible for 90% of the malaria cases. Despite serious concerns regarding increasing drug...

    Authors: Abdulsalam M Al-Mekhlafi, Mohammed AK Mahdy, Hesham M Al-Mekhlafi, Ahmed A Azazy and Mun Yik Fong
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:94
  42. Gnathostoma spinigerum larva is pathogenic, causing gnathostomiasis in humans and certain animals, and is prevalent mainly in Asia. Growth and development of Gnathostoma spinigerum larvae in the cyclopoid copepod...

    Authors: Penchom Janwan, Pewpan M Intapan, Oranuch Sanpool, Luxkhana Sadaow, Tongjit Thanchomnang and Wanchai Maleewong
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:93
  43. Temperature is a key determinant of environmental suitability for transmission of human malaria, modulating endemicity in some regions and preventing transmission in others. The spatial modelling of malaria en...

    Authors: Peter W Gething, Thomas P Van Boeckel, David L Smith, Carlos A Guerra, Anand P Patil, Robert W Snow and Simon I Hay
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:92
  44. The mosquito Aedes aegypti, vector of dengue fever, is a target for control by entomopathogenic fungi. Recent studies by our group have shown the susceptibility of adult A. aegypti to fungal infection by Metarhiz...

    Authors: Adriano R Paula, Aline T Carolino, Carlos P Silva and Richard I Samuels
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:91
  45. The Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (GPELF) was established by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2000 with the goal of eliminating lymphatic filariasis (LF) as a public health problem g...

    Authors: Sammy M Njenga, Charles S Mwandawiro, C Njeri Wamae, Dunstan A Mukoko, Anisa A Omar, Masaaki Shimada, Moses J Bockarie and David H Molyneux
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:90
  46. The final article in a series of three publications examining the global distribution of 41 dominant vector species (DVS) of malaria is presented here. The first publication examined the DVS from the Americas,...

    Authors: Marianne E Sinka, Michael J Bangs, Sylvie Manguin, Theeraphap Chareonviriyaphap, Anand P Patil, William H Temperley, Peter W Gething, Iqbal RF Elyazar, Caroline W Kabaria, Ralph E Harbach and Simon I Hay
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:89
  47. Pregnant women are more susceptible to severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria, which can lead to poor maternal and fetal outcomes. Few data exist on the epidemiology of severe P. falciparum malaria in pregnant wome...

    Authors: Aziem A Ali, Elhassan M Elhassan, Mamoun M Magzoub, Mustafa I Elbashir and Ishag Adam
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2011 4:88

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