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  1. Porcine cysticercosis is an emerging agricultural problem in sub-Saharan Africa. This has been documented primarily through cross-sectional studies, however detailed knowledge of the transmission dynamics of t...

    Authors: Uffe Christian Braae, Pascal Magnussen, Faustin Lekule, Wendy Harrison and Maria Vang Johansen
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:574
  2. Small mammals are crucial for the life history of ixodid ticks, but their role and importance in the transmission cycle of tick-borne pathogens is mostly unknown. Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis (CNM) and Anap...

    Authors: Anna Obiegala, Martin Pfeffer, Kurt Pfister, Tim Tiedemann, Claudia Thiel, Anneliese Balling, Carolin Karnath, Dietlinde Woll and Cornelia Silaghi
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:563
  3. Since 1997, human-biting ticks submitted to the Department of Defense Human Tick Test Kit Program (HTTKP) of the US Army Public Health Command have been tested for pathogens by PCR. We noted differences in the...

    Authors: Ellen Stromdahl, Sarah Hamer, Sarah Jenkins, Lynne Sloan, Phillip Williamson, Erik Foster, Robyn Nadolny, Chad Elkins, Mary Vince and Bobbi Pritt
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:553
  4. Toxoplasma gondii is an intracellular protozoan parasite that infects a wide variety of warm-blooded hosts, including humans. Limited information about T. gondii infection in bats is available in China. The objec...

    Authors: Si-Yuan Qin, Wei Cong, Ye Liu, Nan Li, Ze-Dong Wang, Fu-Kai Zhang, Si-Yang Huang, Xing-Quan Zhu and Quan Liu
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:558
  5. Ixodes scapularis is the most common tick species in North America and a vector of important pathogens that cause diseases in humans and animals including Lyme disease, anaplasmosis and babesiosis. Tick defensins...

    Authors: Miray Tonk, Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz, James J Valdés, Ryan OM Rego, Tereza Chrudimská, Martin Strnad, Radek Šíma, Lesley Bell-Sakyi, Zdeněk Franta, Andreas Vilcinskas, Libor Grubhoffer and Mohammad Rahnamaeian
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:554
  6. Malaria is endemic in sub-Saharan Africa with considerable burden for human health. Major insecticide resistance mechanisms such as kdr R and ace-1 R ...

    Authors: Benoît S Assogba, Luc S Djogbénou, Jacques Saizonou, Pascal Milesi, Laurette Djossou, Innocent Djegbe, Welbeck A Oumbouke, Fabrice Chandre, Lamine Baba-Moussa, Mylene Weill and Michel Makoutodé
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:548
  7. Insecticide resistance in Anopheles gambiae s.l is a major concern to malaria vector control programmes. In West Africa, resistance is mainly due to target–site insensitivity arising from a single point mutation....

    Authors: Rock Aïkpon, Michel Sèzonlin, Razaki Ossè and Martin Akogbéto
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:568
  8. Snail intermediate hosts play a pivotal role in maintaining the life cycles of trematodes, including Opisthorchis viverrini. We investigated the emergence patterns of O. viverrini cercariae infecting Bithynia sia...

    Authors: Nadda Kiatsopit, Paiboon Sithithaworn, Kulthida Kopolrat, Ross H Andrews and Trevor N Petney
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:551
  9. The identification of mosquito vectors is generally based on morphological criteria, but for aquatic stages, morphological characteristics may be missing, leading to incomplete or incorrect identification. The...

    Authors: Constentin Dieme, Amina Yssouf, Anubis Vega-Rúa, Jean-Michel Berenger, Anna-Bella Failloux, Didier Raoult, Philippe Parola and Lionel Almeras
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:544
  10. Tick-borne diseases are a major health risk for humans and dogs. In addition to collection and analysis of questing ticks, analysis of host-associated ticks for the presence of pathogens is a valuable method t...

    Authors: Cécile Schreiber, Jürgen Krücken, Stephanie Beck, Denny Maaz, Stefan Pachnicke, Klemens Krieger, Marcus Gross, Barbara Kohn and Georg von Samson-Himmelstjerna
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:535
  11. Bone marrow (BM) is a major hematopoietic organ that can harbour a variety of vector-borne pathogens; however, knowledge of BM pathological changes in dogs infected with vector-borne pathogens is limited. Thus...

    Authors: Anna S De Tommasi, Domenico Otranto, Tommaso Furlanello, Silvia Tasca, Cinzia Cantacessi, Edward B Breitschwerdt, Dorothee Stanneck, Filipe Dantas-Torres, Gad Baneth, Gioia Capelli and Donato de Caprariis
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:534
  12. Since the 1980s, populations of the Asian tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus have become established in south-eastern, eastern and central United States, extending to approximately 40°N. Ae. albopictus is a vector o...

    Authors: Nicholas H Ogden, Radojević Milka, Cyril Caminade and Philippe Gachon
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:532
  13. Mosquito saliva plays crucial roles in blood feeding but also evokes in hosts an anti-saliva antibody response. The IgG response to the Anopheles gambiae salivary protein gSG6 was previously shown to be a reliabl...

    Authors: Cinzia Rizzo, Fabrizio Lombardo, Raffaele Ronca, Valentina Mangano, Sodiomon Bienvenu Sirima, Issa Nèbiè, Gabriella Fiorentino, David Modiano and Bruno Arcà
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:549
  14. West Nile virus (WNV) has a wide geographical distribution and has been associated to cause neurological disease in humans and horses. Mosquitoes are the traditional vectors for WNV; however, the virus has als...

    Authors: Olivia Wesula Lwande, Marietjie Venter, Joel Lutomiah, George Michuki, Cecilia Rumberia, Francis Gakuya, Vincent Obanda, Caroline Tigoi, Collins Odhiambo, Fredrick Nindo, Samwel Symekher and Rosemary Sang
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:542
  15. It is increasingly recognized that climate change can alter the geographical distribution of vector-borne diseases (VBDs) with shifts of disease vectors to higher altitudes and latitudes. In particular, an inc...

    Authors: Meghnath Dhimal, Bodo Ahrens and Ulrich Kuch
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:540
  16. Analysis of Borrelia burgdorferi ospC types from the southeastern U.S.A. supported the common belief that various ospC types are geographically restricted and host specific. Being widely distributed in the region...

    Authors: Maryna Golovchenko, Radek Sima, Ondrej Hajdusek, Libor Grubhoffer, James H Oliver and Nataliia Rudenko
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:538
  17. Ixodes scapularis is a vector of several human pathogens in the United States, and there is geographical variation in the relative number of persons infected with these pathogens. Geographically isolated populati...

    Authors: Chantel N Krakowetz, L Robbin Lindsay and Neil B Chilton
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:530
  18. Malaria control is heavily dependent on the use of insecticides that target adult mosquito vectors via insecticide treated nets (ITNs) or indoor residual spraying (IRS). Four classes of insecticide are approve...

    Authors: Constant AV Edi, Benjamin G Koudou, Louise Bellai, Akre M Adja, Mouhamadou Chouaibou, Bassirou Bonfoh, Sarah JE Barry, Paul CD Johnson, Pie Müller, Stefan Dongus, Eliezer K N’Goran, Hilary Ranson and David Weetman
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:500
  19. Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is a major cause of permanent disability in many tropical and sub-tropical countries of the world. Malaysia is one of the countries in which LF is an endemic disease. Five rounds of t...

    Authors: Nazeh M Al-Abd, Zurainee Mohamed Nor, Abdulhamid Ahmed, Abdulelah H Al-Adhroey, Marzida Mansor and Mustafa Kassim
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:545
  20. Because agriculture and offshore oil extraction are significant economic activities in the southern Gulf of Mexico, high concentrations of nutrients and hydrocarbons are expected. As parasite communities are s...

    Authors: Víctor Manuel Vidal-Martínez, Oscar A Centeno-Chalé, Edgar Torres-Irineo, Juan Sánchez-Ávila, Gerardo Gold-Bouchot and M Leopoldina Aguirre-Macedo
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:541
  21. The arthropod-borne Mayaro virus (MAYV) causes ‘Mayaro fever’, a disease of medical significance, primarily affecting individuals in permanent contact with forested areas in tropical South America. Studies sho...

    Authors: Kassia C W Spindola, Naomi K Simas, Tiago S Salles, Marcelo D F de Meneses, Alice Sato, Davis Ferreira, Wanderson Romão and Ricardo M Kuster
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:537
  22. Cryptosporidium spp. are zoonotic parasites responsible for diarrhoeal diseases in animals and humans worldwide. Cattle are the most common mammalian species in which Cryptosporidium is detected, with pre-weaned ...

    Authors: Zhaohui Cui, Rongjun Wang, Jianying Huang, Haiyan Wang, Jinfeng Zhao, Nannan Luo, Junqiang Li, Zhenjie Zhang and Longxian Zhang
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:529
  23. The systematics of echinostomes within the so-called 'revolutum' group of the genus Echinostoma, which encompasses the type-species E. revolutum and a number of morphologically similar species, has long been cont...

    Authors: Simona Georgieva, Anna Faltýnková, Rebecca Brown, Isabel Blasco-Costa, Miroslava Soldánová, Jiljí Sitko, Tomáš Scholz and Aneta Kostadinova
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:520
  24. Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular protozoan, causing the important zoonosis toxoplasmosis. This parasite utilizes a unique form of locomotion called gliding motility to find and invade host cells. Th...

    Authors: Yifan Wang, Rui Fang, Yuan Yuan, Min Hu, Yanqin Zhou and Junlong Zhao
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:543
  25. The kinetoplastid parasite, Azumiobodo hoyamushi, is the causative agent of soft tunic syndrome (STS) in ascidians and leads to their mass mortality in Korean waters. This study was conducted to quantify A. hoyam...

    Authors: Yun-Kyung Shin, Ki-Woong Nam, Kwan Ha Park, Jong-Man Yoon and Kyung-Il Park
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:539
  26. Schistosoma mansoni is widely distributed in sub-Saharan Africa with Biomphalaria pfeifferi being its most widespread and important snail intermediate host. Few studies have examined the compatibility of field-de...

    Authors: Martin W Mutuku, Celestine K Dweni, Moses Mwangi, Joseph M Kinuthia, Ibrahim N Mwangi, Geoffrey M Maina, Lelo E Agola, Si-Ming Zhang, Rosebella Maranga, Eric S Loker and Gerald M Mkoji
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:533
  27. The trematode parasite Fasciola hepatica causes important economic losses in ruminants worldwide. Current spatial distribution models do not provide sufficient detail to support farm-specific control strategies. ...

    Authors: Johannes Charlier, Karen Soenen, Els De Roeck, Wouter Hantson, Els Ducheyne, Frieke Van Coillie, Robert De Wulf, Guy Hendrickx and Jozef Vercruysse
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:528
  28. The red fox (Vulpes vulpes) is a widespread species, harbouring many pathogens relevant for humans and pets. Indeed, Anaplasma spp., Ehrlichia canis and Rickettsia spp. among the bacteria and Hepatozoon canis as ...

    Authors: Georg Gerhard Duscher, Hans-Peter Fuehrer and Anna Kübber-Heiss
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:521
  29. DNA barcoding assumes that a biological entity is completely separated from its closest relatives by a barcoding gap, which means that intraspecific genetic distance (from COI sequences) should never be greater t...

    Authors: Silvia Andrade Justi, Carolina Dale and Cleber Galvão
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:519
  30. Ghana is renowned for its sibling species diversity of the Simulium damnosum complex, vectors of Onchocerca volvulus. Detailed entomological knowledge becomes a priority as onchocerciasis control policy has shift...

    Authors: Poppy HL Lamberton, Robert A Cheke, Martin Walker, Peter Winskill, Mike Y Osei-Atweneboana, Iñaki Tirados, Anthony Tetteh-Kumah, Daniel A Boakye, Michael D Wilson, Rory J Post and María-Gloria Basáñez
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:511
  31. Cystic echinococcosis (CE) is a near cosmopolitan zoonosis caused by the larval stage of the dog tapeworm Echinococcus granulosus. E. granulosus infection induces a polarized T-helper type 2 (Th2) systematic immu...

    Authors: Hui Wang, Jun Li, Hongwei Pu, Bilal Hasan, Jinfeng Ma, Malcolm K Jones, Kan Zheng, Xue Zhang, Haimei Ma, Donald P McManus, Renyong Lin, Hao Wen and Wenbao Zhang
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:522
  32. Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), caused by the members of the Leishmania donovani complex, has been responsible for devastating VL epidemics in the Sudan. Multilocus microsatellite and sequence typing studies can pro...

    Authors: Rania Baleela, Martin S Llewellyn, Sinead Fitzpatrick, Katrin Kuhls, Gabriele Schönian, Michael A Miles and Isabel L Mauricio
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:496
  33. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends for sub-Saharan Africa a package of prompt and effective case-management combined with the delivery of insecticide-treated nets (ITN) and intermittent preventive ...

    Authors: Offianan A Toure, Penali L Kone, M’Lanhoro AA Coulibaly, Berenger AA Ako, Eric A Gbessi, Baba Coulibaly, Landry T N’ Guessan, David Koffi, Sylvain Beourou, Adama Soumahoro, Issiaka Bassinka, Messoun Nogbou, Tidjane Swa, Bernadin Gba, Beugre Esmel and Ernestine M Bokossa
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:495
  34. The freshwater snail Biomphalaria acts as the intermediate host of Schistosoma mansoni, a globally important human parasite. Understanding the population structure of intermediate host species can elucidate trans...

    Authors: Claire J Standley, Sara L Goodacre, Christopher M Wade and J Russell Stothard
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:524
  35. Plant-derived condensed tannins (CT) show promise as a complementary option to treat gastrointestinal helminth infections, thus reducing reliance on synthetic anthelmintic drugs. Most studies on the anthelmint...

    Authors: Andrew R Williams, Honorata M Ropiak, Christos Fryganas, Olivier Desrues, Irene Mueller-Harvey and Stig M Thamsborg
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:518
  36. Cases of Mediterranean Spotted Fever like rickettsioses, caused by Rickettsia monacensis, have become more common in the last 10 years. In China, natural infection of R. monacensis in various tick species has bee...

    Authors: Xiaodong Ye, Yi Sun, Wendong Ju, Xin Wang, Wuchun Cao and Mingyu Wu
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:512
  37. Pathogens that are transmitted by ticks to dogs, such as Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Babesia spp., Borrelia burgdorferi sensu latu, and Ehrlichia canis, are an increasing problem in the world. One method to preven...

    Authors: Christina Wengenmayer, Heike Williams, Eva Zschiesche, Andreas Moritz, Judith Langenstein, Rainer KA Roepke and Anja R Heckeroth
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:525
  38. There has been increasing effort in recent years to incorporate user needs in technology design and re-design. This project employed a bottom-up approach that engaged end users from the outset. Bottom-up appro...

    Authors: Prisca A Oria, Alexandra Hiscox, Jane Alaii, Margaret Ayugi, Wolfgang Richard Mukabana, Willem Takken and Cees Leeuwis
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:523
  39. Hair sheep breeds are a new, cost-effective option for the diversification of livestock in the Midwest region of Brazil. They are grazed extensively with cattle as well as in isolation in small areas. Hair she...

    Authors: Marcos Valério Garcia, Renato Andreotti, Fernando Alvarenga Reis, André de Abreu Rangel Aguirre, Jacqueline Cavalcante Barros, Jaqueline Matias and Wilson Werner Koller
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:515
  40. The populations of wild felids in Africa, of especially lions (Panthera leo) and cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus), are declining and the species are classified as vulnerable to extinction by the International Union fo...

    Authors: Patrick Kelly, Lisa Marabini, Keith Dutlow, Jilei Zhang, Amanda Loftis and Chengming Wang
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:514
  41. Scrub typhus is an important public health problem in China, especially in Guangzhou city. Typical outbreaks of scrub typhus have been previously reported in rural areas, affecting mainly farmers. We describe ...

    Authors: Yuehong Wei, Lei Luo, Qinlong Jing, Xiaoning Li, Yong Huang, Xincai Xiao, Lan Liu, Xinwei Wu and Zhicong Yang
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:513
  42. Babesiosis is a typical zoonotic, emerging disease caused by a tick-borne intraerythrocytic protozoan of Babesia spp. that also can be transmitted by blood transfusion. Babesiosis imposes an increasing public-hea...

    Authors: Xia Zhou, Shang Xia, Ji-Lei Huang, Ernest Tambo, Hong-Xiang Zhuge and Xiao-Nong Zhou
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:509
  43. Insecticide-treated durable wall lining (DL) is a new method of vector control designed to supplement LLINs and overcome two inherent limitations of LLINs and IRS: nightly behavioural compliance and short resi...

    Authors: Louisa A Messenger, Marie Louise M Larsen, John H Thomas and Mark Rowland
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:508
  44. The invasive eel parasite Anguillicoloides crassus (syn. Anguillicola crassus) is considered one of the major causes for the decline of the European eel (Anguilla anguilla) panmictic population. It impairs the sw...

    Authors: Sebastian Emde, Sonja Rueckert, Judith Kochmann, Klaus Knopf, Bernd Sures and Sven Klimpel
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:504
  45. Currently, dengue fever is considered as the main health problem in several parts (Mekkah, Jeddah, Jazan and Najran) of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) with dramatically increase in the number of cases reported ...

    Authors: Al Thabiani Aziz, Salman A Al-Shami, Jazem A Mahyoub, Mesed Hatabbi, Abu Hassan Ahmad and Che Salmah Md Rawi
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:487
  46. Leishmaniases are tropical zoonotic diseases, caused by parasites from the genus Leishmania. New World (NW) species are related to sylvatic cycles although urbanization processes have been reported in some South ...

    Authors: Carolina Hernández, Catalina Alvarez, Camila González, Martha Stella Ayala, Cielo Maritza León and Juan David Ramírez
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:501
  47. The persistence of Triatoma infestans and the continuous transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi in the Inter-Andean Valleys and in the Gran Chaco of Bolivia are of great significance. Coincidentally, it is in these re...

    Authors: Marinely Bustamante Gomez, Grasielle Caldas Pessoa D'Avila, Ana Lineth Garcia Orellana, Mirko Rojas Cortez, Aline Cristine Luiz Rosa, François Noireau and Liléia Gonçalves Diotaiuti
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:497
  48. We report the discovery of a nematode parasite egg (Nemata: Oxyurida) from a coprolite closely associated with the remains of several species of Cynodontia, dated to 240 million years old. This finding is part...

    Authors: Jean-Pierre Hugot, Scott L Gardner, Victor Borba, Priscilla Araujo, Daniela Leles, Átila Augusto Stock Da-Rosa, Juliana Dutra, Luiz Fernando Ferreira and Adauto Araújo
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:486

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