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  1. The mosquito vector Aedes aegypti is responsible for transmitting a range of arboviruses including dengue (DENV) and Zika (ZIKV). The global reach of these viruses is increasing due to an expansion of the mosquit...

    Authors: Gerard Terradas, Scott L. Allen, Stephen F. Chenoweth and Elizabeth A. McGraw
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:622
  2. In insects, oviposition decisions may lead to egg deposition in substrates with different larval density and nutritional levels. Individuals developing in such substrates may present plasticity in their phenot...

    Authors: Steve B. S. Baleba, Daniel Masiga, Baldwyn Torto, Christopher W. Weldon and Merid N. Getahun
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:222
  3. Epidemics of dengue, chikungunya and Zika are a growing threat to areas where Aedes aegypti are present. The efficacy of chemical control of Ae. aegypti is threatened by the increasing frequency of insecticide re...

    Authors: Jesus Pinto, Miriam Palomino, Leonardo Mendoza-Uribe, Carmen Sinti, Kelly A. Liebman and Audrey Lenhart
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:494
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. Ticks are obligate hematophagous arthropods that feed on vertebrate blood that contains iron. Ticks also concentrate host blood with iron; this concentration of the blood leads to high levels of iron in ticks....

    Authors: Kodai Kusakisako, Remil Linggatong Galay, Rika Umemiya-Shirafuji, Emmanuel Pacia Hernandez, Hiroki Maeda, Melbourne Rio Talactac, Naotoshi Tsuji, Masami Mochizuki, Kozo Fujisaki and Tetsuya Tanaka
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:457
  7. Vector-borne diseases exert a global economic impact to the livestock industry. Understanding how agriculture practices and acaricide usage affect the ecology of these diseases is important for making informed...

    Authors: Allison Cauvin, Karen Hood, Rebecca Shuman, Jeremy Orange, Jason K. Blackburn, Katherine A. Sayler and Samantha M. Wisely
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:100
  8. Several mosquito population suppression strategies based on the rearing and release of sterile males have provided promising results. However, the lack of an efficient male selection method has hampered the ex...

    Authors: Mario Zacarés, Gustavo Salvador-Herranz, David Almenar, Carles Tur, Rafael Argilés, Kostas Bourtzis, Hervé Bossin and Ignacio Pla
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2018 11(Suppl 2):656

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 2

  9. In countries with elevated prevalence of zoonotic anisakiasis and high awareness of this parasitosis, a considerable number of cases that associate Anisakis sp. (Nematoda, Anisakidae) and different bowel carcinom...

    Authors: Concetta Maria Messina, Federica Pizzo, Andrea Santulli, Ivana Bušelić, Mate Boban, Stjepan Orhanović and Ivona Mladineo
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:607
  10. Understanding wildlife disease ecology is becoming an urgent need due to the continuous emergence and spread of several wildlife zoonotic diseases. West Nile Virus (WNV) is the most widespread arthropod-borne ...

    Authors: Annapaola Rizzoli, Luca Bolzoni, Elizabeth A Chadwick, Gioia Capelli, Fabrizio Montarsi, Michela Grisenti, Josue Martínez de la Puente, Joaquin Muñoz, Jordi Figuerola, Ramon Soriguer, Gianfranco Anfora, Marco Di Luca and Roberto Rosà
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:213
  11. Mosquito-borne pathogens are of growing importance in many countries of Europe including Germany. At the same time, the transmission cycles of most mosquito-borne pathogens (e.g. viruses or filarial parasites)...

    Authors: Jessica Börstler, Hanna Jöst, Rolf Garms, Andreas Krüger, Egbert Tannich, Norbert Becker, Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit and Renke Lühken
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:318
  12. Mating swarm segregation in closely related insect species may contribute to reproductive isolation. Visual markers are used for swarm formation; however, it is unknown whether they play a key role in swarm lo...

    Authors: Serge B. Poda, Charles Nignan, Olivier Gnankiné, Roch K. Dabiré, Abdoulaye Diabaté and Olivier Roux
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:589
  13. Vaccination is an attractive ecological alternative to the use of acaricides for parasite control. However, effective anti-parasite vaccines against sarcoptic mange have not yet been developed. The purpose of ...

    Authors: Rosa Casais, Victor Granda, Ana Balseiro, Ana del Cerro, Kevin P. Dalton, Roxana González, Pablo Bravo, J. M. Prieto and Maria Montoya
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:435
  14. American trypanosomiasis, or Chagas disease, is a growing public health problem in Panama, and further forest degradation due to human population growth is expected to worsen the situation. Most people infecte...

    Authors: Indra G. Rodriguez and Jose R. Loaiza
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:459
  15. Despite being certified guinea worm free in 2007, Cameroon continues surveillance efforts to ensure rapid verification of any suspected reoccurrence. This includes the investigation of every rumor and confirma...

    Authors: Eta Ngole Mbong, Gerald Etapelong Sume, Flaubert Danbe, Walter Kang Kum, Valeri Oben Mbi, André Arsène Bita Fouda and Peter Atem
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:374
  16. Non-native invasive mosquitoes have for many years made incursions into Europe, and are now established in many European countries. The continued European importation of potential vectors and their expansion w...

    Authors: Alexander G. C. Vaux and Jolyon M. Medlock
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:351
  17. Knowledge of vector ecology is important in understanding the transmission dynamics of vector borne disease. In this study, we determined the distribution and diversity of mosquitoes along the major nomadic li...

    Authors: Samwel O Arum, Christopher W Weldon, Benedict Orindi, Tobias Landmann, David P Tchouassi, Hippolyte D Affognon and Rosemary Sang
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:294
  18. Mosquito control based on chemical insecticides is considered as an important element in the current global strategies for the control of mosquito-borne diseases. Unfortunately, the development of pyrethroid r...

    Authors: Weijie Wang, Yuan Lv, Fujin Fang, Shanchao Hong, Qin Guo, Shengli Hu, Feifei Zou, Linna Shi, Zhentao Lei, Kai Ma, Dan Zhou, Donghui Zhang, Yan Sun, Lei Ma, Bo Shen and Changliang Zhu
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:95
  19. The Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus subgroup includes 11 cryptic species of which Ae. albopictus is the most widely distributed. Its global expansion associated with a documented vector competence for several emergi...

    Authors: Guillaume Minard, Van Tran Van, Florence Hélène Tran, Christian Melaun, Sven Klimpel, Lisa Katharina Koch, Khanh Ly Huynh Kim, Trang Huynh Thi Thuy, Huu Tran Ngoc, Patrick Potier, Patrick Mavingui and Claire Valiente Moro
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:276
  20. Different mosquito-borne pathogens are circulating in Iran including Sindbis virus, West Nile virus, filarioid worms and malaria parasites. However, the local transmission cycles...

    Authors: Nariman Shahhosseini, Johannes Friedrich, Seyed Hassan Moosa-Kazemi, Mohammad Mehdi Sedaghat, Mohammad Hassan Kayedi, Egbert Tannich, Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit and Renke Lühken
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2018 11:669
  21. Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a neglected tropical disease transmitted by sandflies. On the Indian subcontinent (ISC), VL is targeted for elimination as a public health problem by 2017. In the context of VL, ...

    Authors: Epke A. Le Rutte, Luc E. Coffeng, Daniel M. Bontje, Epco C. Hasker, José A. Ruiz Postigo, Daniel Argaw, Marleen C. Boelaert and Sake J. De Vlas
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:24
  22. Haemosporidian parasites of the genus Haemoproteus (Haemoproteidae) are widespread and cause haemoproteosis in birds and therefore, their diversity, ecology and evolutionary biology have become subjects of intens...

    Authors: Dovilė Bukauskaitė, Carolina Romeiro Fernandes Chagas, Rasa Bernotienė, Rita Žiegytė, Mikas Ilgūnas, Tatjana Iezhova and Gediminas Valkiūnas
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:582
  23. 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

  24. Fasciola hepatica is of worldwide significance, impacting on the health, welfare and productivity of livestock and regarded by WHO as a re-emerging zoonosis. Triclabendazole (TCBZ), the drug of choice for control...

    Authors: Jane E. Hodgkinson, Krystyna Cwiklinski, Nicola Beesley, Catherine Hartley, Katherine Allen and Diana J. L. Williams
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2018 11:363
  25. The excessive and uncontrolled use of anthelmintics, e.g. ivermectin (IVM) for the treatment of livestock parasites has led to widespread resistance in gastrointestinal nematodes, such as Haemonchus contortus. Th...

    Authors: Xiaoping Luo, Xiaona Shi, Chunxiu Yuan, Min Ai, Cheng Ge, Min Hu, Xingang Feng and Xiaoye Yang
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:31
  26. The range of vertebrate hosts on which species of mosquito blood-feed is an important parameter for identifying potential vectors and in assessing the risk of incursion and establishment of vector-borne pathog...

    Authors: V. A. Brugman, L. M. Hernández-Triana, M. E. England, J. M. Medlock, P. P. C. Mertens, J. G. Logan, A. J. Wilson, A. R. Fooks, N. Johnson and S. Carpenter
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:163
  27. Ticks are important vectors of disease-causing pathogens. With the rise of resistance to chemical acaricides, alternative methods in tick control are warranted. Gene manipulation has been successful in control...

    Authors: Emmanuel Pacia Hernandez, Kodai Kusakisako, Takeshi Hatta and Tetsuya Tanaka
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:321
  28. Schistosomiasis, caused mainly by S. mansoni, S. haematobium and S. japonicum, continues to be a serious tropical disease and public health problem resulting in an unacceptably high level of morbidity in countrie...

    Authors: Biniam Mathewos Tebeje, Marina Harvie, Hong You, Alex Loukas and Donald P. McManus
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:528
  29. Toxoplasma gondii is a ubiquitous protozoan intracellular parasite, the causative agent of toxoplasmosis, and a worldwide zoonosis. Apical membrane antigen-1 (AMA1) and rhoptry neck protein (RO...

    Authors: Tie-E Zhang, Li-Tian Yin, Run-Hua Li, Hai-Long Wang, Xiao-Li Meng and Guo-Rong Yin
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:15
  30. Phenol oxidases (POs) catalyze the oxidation of dopa and dopamine to melanin, which is crucial for cuticle formation and innate immune maintenance in insects. Although, Laccase 2, a member of the PO family, ha...

    Authors: Ming-Hui Du, Zheng-Wen Yan, You-Jin Hao, Zhen-Tian Yan, Feng-Ling Si, Bin Chen and Liang Qiao
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:171
  31. 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
  32. 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
  33. Japanese encephalitis (JE) is one of the most significant aetiological agents of viral encephalitis in Asia. This medically important arbovirus is primarily spread from vertebrate hosts to humans by the mosqui...

    Authors: Joshua Longbottom, Annie J. Browne, David M. Pigott, Marianne E. Sinka, Nick Golding, Simon I. Hay, Catherine L. Moyes and Freya M. Shearer
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:148
  34. Globally, in 2010, approximately 1.5 billion people were infected with at least one species of soil-transmitted helminth (STH), Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, hookworm (Ancylostoma duodenale and Necat...

    Authors: William E. Oswald, Aisha E. P. Stewart, Michael R. Kramer, Tekola Endeshaw, Mulat Zerihun, Berhanu Melak, Eshetu Sata, Demelash Gessese, Tesfaye Teferi, Zerihun Tadesse, Birhan Guadie, Jonathan D. King, Paul M. Emerson, Elizabeth K. Callahan, Matthew C. Freeman, W. Dana Flanders…
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:91
  35. Potent granulomatous inflammation responses induced by schistosome eggs and resultant fibrosis are the primary causes of morbidity in schistosomiasis. Recombinant Sj16 (rSj16), a 16-kDa protein of Schistosoma jap...

    Authors: Jia Shen, Lifu Wang, Mei Peng, Zhen Liu, Beibei Zhang, Tao Zhou, Xi Sun and Zhongdao Wu
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:457
  36. As evidence of the infection of domestic animals by Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Anaplasma sp. ‘Omatjenne’ is presently becoming available, understanding the epidemiological and ecological significance of infect...

    Authors: Sori Teshale, Dirk Geysen, Gobena Ameni, Pierre Dorny and Dirk Berkvens
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2018 11:162
  37. Aedes albopictus is an invasive mosquito species of global medical concern as its distribution has recently expanded to Africa, the Americas and Europe. In the absence of prophylaxis protecting human populations ...

    Authors: Cyrille Lebon, Aude Benlali, Célestine Atyame, Patrick Mavingui and Pablo Tortosa
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2018 11(Suppl 2):658

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 2

  38. Angelica sinensis (Oliv.) hexane extract (AHE) has been reported as a proven and impressive repellent against laboratory-reared female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. With the aim of promoti...

    Authors: Danita Champakaew, Anuluck Junkum, Udom Chaithong, Atchariya Jitpakdi, Doungrat Riyong, Anchalee Wannasan, Jitrawadee Intirach, Roongtawan Muangmoon, Arpaporn Chansang, Benjawan Tuetun and Benjawan Pitasawat
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2016 9:373
  39. Aedes albopictus, a known worldwide vector of several mosquito-borne disease pathogens including dengue, chikungunya and Zika viruses, was introduced into Europe in the late 1970s thro...

    Authors: Marco Di Luca, Luciano Toma, Francesco Severini, Daniela Boccolini, Salvatore D’Avola, Diego Todaro, Alessandra Stancanelli, Francesco Antoci, Francesco La Russa, Sandro Casano, Salvatore D. Sotera, Eugenio Carraffa, Veerle Versteirt, Francis Schaffner, Roberto Romi and Alessandra Torina
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2017 10:543
  40. Schistosomiasis is a harmful neglected tropical disease caused by infection with Schistosoma spp., such as Schistosoma mansoni. Schistosoma must transition within a molluscan host to survive. Chemical analyses of...

    Authors: Conor E. Fogarty, Min Zhao, Donald P. McManus, Mary G. Duke, Scott F. Cummins and Tianfang Wang
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2019 12:452

    The Correction to this article has been published in Parasites & Vectors 2022 15:421

  41. Aedes albopictus is naturally infected with Wolbachia spp., maternally transmitted bacteria that influence the reproduction of hosts. However, little is known regarding the prevalence of infection, multiple infec...

    Authors: Yaping Hu, Zhiyong Xi, Xiaobo Liu, Jun Wang, Yuhong Guo, Dongsheng Ren, Haixia Wu, Xiaohua Wang, Bin Chen and Qiyong Liu
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:28
  42. Wolbachia are maternally transmitted bacteria that can manipulate their hosts’ reproduction causing cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI). CI is a sperm-egg incompatibility resulting in embryonic death. Due to this st...

    Authors: Mine Altinli, Filiz Gunay, Bulent Alten, Mylene Weill and Mathieu Sicard
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2018 11:198
  43. The current understanding of the landscape epidemiology of Ross River virus (RRV), Australia’s most common arthropod-borne pathogen, is fragmented due to gaps in surveillance programs and the relatively narrow...

    Authors: Michael G. Walsh and Cameron Webb
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2018 11:192
  44. Chagas disease is an anthropozoonosis caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi that represents a major public health problem in Latin America. Although the United States is defined as non-endemic for Ch...

    Authors: Claudia P Herrera, Meredith H Licon, Catherine S Nation, Samuel B Jameson and Dawn M Wesson
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2015 8:123
  45. Culicoides biting midges are potential vectors of different pathogens. However, especially for eastern Europe, there is a lack of knowledge on the host-feeding patterns of this vector group. Therefore, this study...

    Authors: Alexandru Tomazatos, Hanna Jöst, Jonny Schulze, Marina Spînu, Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit, Daniel Cadar and Renke Lühken
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2020 13:79
  46. Increasing drug resistance in gastrointestinal (GI) parasites of livestock and concerns about chemical residues in animal products and the environment are driving the development of alternative control strateg...

    Authors: Miguel Peña-Espinoza, Angela H. Valente, Stig M. Thamsborg, Henrik T. Simonsen, Ulrik Boas, Heidi L. Enemark, Rodrigo López-Muñoz and Andrew R. Williams
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2018 11:475
  47. A baseline survey in 2007–2008 found lymphatic filariasis (LF) to be endemic in Sierra Leone in all 14 districts and co-endemic with onchocerciasis in 12 districts. Mass drug administration (MDA) with ivermect...

    Authors: Joseph B. Koroma, Santigie Sesay, Abdul Conteh, Jusufu Paye, Mohamed Bah, Mustapha Sonnie, Mary H. Hodges and Yaobi Zhang
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2018 11:334

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