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  1. The World Health Organization (WHO), international donors and partners have emphasized the importance of integrated control of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). Integrated mapping of NTDs is a first step for...

    Authors: Heven Sime, Kebede Deribe, Ashenafi Assefa, Melanie J Newport, Fikre Enquselassie, Abeba Gebretsadik, Amha Kebede, Asrat Hailu, Oumer Shafi, Abraham Aseffa, Richard Reithinger, Simon J Brooker, Rachel L Pullan, Jorge Cano, Kadu Meribo, Alex Pavluck…
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:397
  2. The genus Flavivirus comprises several mosquito-borne species, including the zoonotic pathogens West Nile and Usutu virus, circulating in animals and humans in Italy since 1998. Due to its ecological and geograph...

    Authors: Francesca Rizzo, Francesco Cerutti, Marco Ballardini, Andrea Mosca, Nicoletta Vitale, Maria Cristina Radaelli, Rosanna Desiato, Marino Prearo, Alessandra Pautasso, Cristina Casalone, Pierluigi Acutis, Simone Peletto and Maria Lucia Mandola
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:395
  3. Several investigators have reported genetic differences between northern and southern populations of Ixodes scapularis in North America, as well as differences in patterns of disease transmission. Ecological and ...

    Authors: Howard S Ginsberg, Eric L Rulison, Alexandra Azevedo, Genevieve C Pang, Isis M Kuczaj, Jean I Tsao and Roger A LeBrun
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:394
  4. Anthropogenic habitat change often results in altered landscapes that can provide new environments where hosts, parasites and pathogens can interact. The latter can have implications for human and animal healt...

    Authors: Götz Froeschke and Sonja Matthee
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:393
  5. Culicoides biting midges are vectors of bluetongue and Schmallenberg viruses that inflict large-scale disease epidemics in ruminant livestock in Europe. Methods based on morphological characteristics and sequenci...

    Authors: Katrin R Uhlmann, Sebastian Gibb, Stefan Kalkhof, Uriel Arroyo-Abad, Claudia Schulz, Bernd Hoffmann, Francesca Stubbins, Simon Carpenter, Martin Beer, Martin von Bergen and Ralph Feltens
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:392
  6. Domestic water storage containers constitute major Aedes aegypti breeding sites. We present for the first time a comparative analysis of the bacterial communities associated with Ae. aegypti larvae and water from...

    Authors: Nsa Dada, Estelle Jumas-Bilak, Sylvie Manguin, Razak Seidu, Thor-Axel Stenström and Hans J Overgaard
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:391
  7. Anopheles arabiensis is a major malaria vector in Africa. Adult females are likely to imbibe multiple blood meals during their lifetime. This results in regular exposure to potential toxins and blood-meal induced...

    Authors: Shüné V Oliver and Basil D Brooke
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:390
  8. The burden of malaria infection in the modern world remains significant. Specific changes in the relative proportions of malaria vector mosquitoes, Maculipennis Complex species, in the south of Western Siberia...

    Authors: Yuri M Novikov and Oleg V Vaulin
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:389
  9. Female Culicoides sonorensis midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) are vectors of pathogens that impact livestock and wildlife in the United States. Little is known about their biology on a molecular-genetic level, i...

    Authors: Dana Nayduch, Matthew B Lee and Christopher A Saski
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:388
  10. The genus Leishmania includes protozoan parasites that are able to infect an array of phlebotomine and vertebrate species. Proteases are related to the capacity of these parasites to infect and survive in their h...

    Authors: Mariana Silva-Almeida, Franklin Souza-Silva, Bernardo Acácio Santini Pereira, Michelle Lopes Ribeiro-Guimarães and Carlos Roberto Alves
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:387
  11. Zoonotic Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (ZCL) due to Leishmania major (L. major) is still a serious public health problem in Tunisia. This study aimed to compare the prevalence and risk factors associated with L. major ...

    Authors: Jihene Bettaieb, Amine Toumi, Sadok Chlif, Bilel Chelghaf, Aicha Boukthir, Adel Gharbi and Afif Ben Salah
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:386
  12. Genetic variation of microsatellite loci is a widely used method for the analysis of population genetic structure of several organisms. To improve our knowledge on the population genetics of trypanosomes, Trypano...

    Authors: Gustave Simo, Pythagore Soubgwi Fogue, Tresor Tito Tanekou Melachio, Flobert Njiokou, Jules Roger Kuiate and Tazoacha Asonganyi
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:385
  13. Culicoides imicola Kieffer and Culicoides bolitinos Meiswinkel (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) are both of veterinary importance, being vectors of Schmallenberg, bluetongue and African horse sickness (AHS) viruses. Wi...

    Authors: F Arné Verhoef, Gert J Venter and Christopher W Weldon
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:384
  14. Since the World Health Organization (WHO) adopted the use of long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) as a principal strategy for effective malaria prevention and control, pyrethroids have been the only class of...

    Authors: Hitoshi Kawada, Kazunori Ohashi, Gabriel O Dida, George Sonye, Sammy M Njenga, Charles Mwandawiro and Noboru Minakawa
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:383
  15. Mosquitoes are highly effective vectors for transmission of human and animal pathogens. Understanding the relationship between pathogen and vector is vital in developing strategies to predict and prevent trans...

    Authors: Thomas Walker, Claire L Jeffries, Karen L Mansfield and Nicholas Johnson
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:382
  16. Colombia, as part of The Andean Countries Initiative has given priority to triatomine control programs to eliminate primary (domiciliated) vector species such as Rhodnius prolixus and Triatoma dimidiata. However,...

    Authors: Omar Cantillo-Barraza, Duverney Chaverra, Paula Marcet, Sair Arboleda-Sánchez and Omar Triana-Chávez
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:381
  17. It has been speculated that widespread and sustained use of insecticide treated bed nets (ITNs) for over 10 years in Asembo, western Kenya, may have selected for changes in the location (indoor versus outdoor)...

    Authors: M Nabie Bayoh, Edward D Walker, Jackline Kosgei, Maurice Ombok, George B Olang, Andrew K Githeko, Gerry F Killeen, Peter Otieno, Meghna Desai, Neil F Lobo, John M Vulule, Mary J Hamel, Simon Kariuki and John E Gimnig
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:380
  18. Australia is one of the few high-income countries where dengue transmission regularly occurs. Dengue is a major health threat in North Queensland (NQ), where the vector Aedes aegypti is present. Whether NQ should...

    Authors: Elvina Viennet, Scott A Ritchie, Helen M Faddy, Craig R Williams and David Harley
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:379
  19. Tsetse flies are the biological vectors of African trypanosomes, the causative agents of sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in animals. The tsetse endosymbiont Sodalis glossinidius has been suggested to play ...

    Authors: Jonny W Dennis, Simon M Durkin, Jemima E Horsley Downie, Louise C Hamill, Neil E Anderson and Ewan T MacLeod
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:378
  20. Paragyrodactylus Gvosdev and Martechov, 1953, a viviparous genus of ectoparasite within the Gyrodactylidae, contains three nominal species all of which infect Asian river loaches. The group is suspected to be a b...

    Authors: Fei Ye, Stanley D King, David K Cone and Ping You
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:377
  21. The full-scale impact of odour-baited technology on the surveillance, sampling and control of vectors of infectious diseases is partly limited by the lack of methods for the efficient and sustainable dispensin...

    Authors: Collins K Mweresa, Wolfgang R Mukabana, Philemon Omusula, Bruno Otieno, Tom Gheysens, Willem Takken and Joop JA van Loon
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:376
  22. The sleeping sickness focus of Campo lies along the Atlantic coast and extends along the Ntem River, which constitutes the Cameroonian and Equatorial Guinean border. It is a hypo-endemic focus with the disease...

    Authors: Gustave Simo, Jean Arthur Mbida Mbida, Vincent Ebo’o Eyenga, Tazoacha Asonganyi, Flobert Njiokou and Pascal Grébaut
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:374
  23. A plethora of evidence shows that activated microglia play a critical role in the pathogenesis of the central nervous system (CNS). Toxoplasmic encephalitis (TE) frequently occurs in HIV/AIDS patients. However...

    Authors: Yi-hua Zhang, He Chen, Ying Chen, Lu Wang, Yi-hong Cai, Min Li, Hui-qin Wen, Jian Du, Ran An, Qing-li Luo, Xue-long Wang, Zhao-Rong Lun, Yuan-hong Xu and Ji-long Shen
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:372
  24. In Sub Saharan Africa malaria remains one of the major health problems and its control represents an important public health measure. Integrated malaria control comprises the use of impregnated mosquito nets a...

    Authors: Peter Dambach, Valérie R Louis, Achim Kaiser, Saidou Ouedraogo, Ali Sié, Rainer Sauerborn and Norbert Becker
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:371
  25. In this paper, the hazard and exposure concepts from risk assessment are applied in an innovative approach to understand zoonotic disease risk. Hazard is here related to the landscape ecology determining where...

    Authors: Caroline B Zeimes, Gert E Olsson, Marika Hjertqvist and Sophie O Vanwambeke
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:370
  26. Pesticide resistance due to sodium channel point mutations has been well documented in many mosquito species.

    Authors: Minghui Zhao, Yande Dong, Xin Ran, Xiaoxia Guo, Dan Xing, Yingmei Zhang, Ting Yan, Xiaojuan Zhu, Jianxin Su, Hengduan Zhang, Gang Wang, Wenjun Hou, Zhiming Wu, Chunxiao Li and Tongyan Zhao
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:369
  27. Although spargana, which are the plerocercoids of Spirometra erinacei, are of biological and clinical importance, expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from this parasite have not been explored. To understand molecular ...

    Authors: Dae-Won Kim, Won Gi Yoo, Myoung-Ro Lee, Hye-Won Yang, Yu-Jung Kim, Shin-Hyeong Cho, Won-Ja Lee and Jung-Won Ju
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:368
  28. Despite the intensive global efforts to control intestinal parasitic infections, the prevalence of soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections is still very high in many developing countries particularly among ...

    Authors: Hesham M Al-Mekhlafi, Tengku Shahrul Anuar, Ebtesam M Al-Zabedi, Mohamed T Al-Maktari, Mohammed AK Mahdy, Abdulhamid Ahmed, Atiya A Sallam, Wan Ariffin Abdullah, Norhayati Moktar and Johari Surin
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:367
  29. The role of endemic murid rodents as hosts of arthropod vectors of diseases of medical and veterinary significance is well established in the northern hemisphere. In contrast, endemic murids are comparatively ...

    Authors: Dina M Fagir, Eddie A Ueckermann, Ivan G Horak, Nigel C Bennett and Heike Lutermann
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:366
  30. Anaplasma phagocytophilum is the etiological agent of granulocytic anaplasmosis in humans and animals. Wild animals and ticks play key roles in the enzootic cycles of the pathogen. Potential ecotypes of A. phagoc...

    Authors: Setareh Jahfari, E Claudia Coipan, Manoj Fonville, Arieke Docters van Leeuwen, Paul Hengeveld, Dieter Heylen, Paul Heyman, Cees van Maanen, Catherine M Butler, Gábor Földvári, Sándor Szekeres, Gilian van Duijvendijk, Wesley Tack, Jolianne M Rijks, Joke van der Giessen, Willem Takken…
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:365
  31. Environmental changes caused by urbanization can cause alterations in the ecology and behavior of sandflies and in the epidemiology of leishmaniasis. Geotechnological tools allow the analysis and recognition o...

    Authors: Aline Etelvina Casaril, Neiva Zandonaide Nazario Monaco, Everton Falcão de Oliveira, Gabriel Utida Eguchi, Antonio Conceição Paranhos Filho, Luciana Escalante Pereira, Elisa Teruya Oshiro, Eunice Aparecida Bianchi Galati, Nathália Lopes Fontoura Mateus and Alessandra Gutierrez de Oliveira
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:364
  32. The impact of control and elimination programmes by mass drug administration (MDA) targeting onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis (LF) in sub-Saharan Africa over the last two decades has resulted in signifi...

    Authors: David H Molyneux, Adrian Hopkins, Mark H Bradley and Louise A Kelly-Hope
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:363
  33. Cutaneous leishmaniasis is a tropical disease affecting over one million patients annually and Leishmania (L.) mexicana is one of the major etiological agents in the Americas. Here we established the first experi...

    Authors: Julio Vladimir Cruz-Chan, Amarú del Carmen Aguilar-Cetina, Liliana Estefanía Villanueva-Lizama, Pedro Pablo Martínez-Vega, Maria Jesús Ramírez-Sierra, Miguel Enrique Rosado-Vallado, José Leonardo Guillermo-Cordero and Eric Dumonteil
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:361
  34. Notifications concerning American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis have increased in recent years in the state of Acre, Brazil. Despite identification of distinct Leishmania species isolated from cutaneous lesions, there ...

    Authors: Thais Araujo-Pereira, Andressa A Fuzari, José Dilermado Andrade Filho, Daniela Pita-Pereira, Constança Britto and Reginaldo P Brazil
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:360
  35. Kafta Humera lowlands are endemic for kala-azar (visceral leishmaniasis). These lowlands are characterized by black clay soil which is used for growing sesame, sorghum and cotton for commercial purposes.

    Authors: Wossenseged Lemma, Habte Tekie, Meshesha Balkew, Teshome Gebre-Michael, Alon Warburg and Asrat Hailu
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:359
  36. Chagas disease was described in Ecuador in 1930 in the province of Guayas and thereafter in various provinces. Triatomine were reported in the province of Esmeraldas but no human infection has been described. ...

    Authors: Ángel Guevara, Juan Moreira, Hipatia Criollo, Sandra Vivero, Marcia Racines, Varsovia Cevallos, Rosanna Prandi, Cynthia Caicedo, Francisco Robinzon and Mariella Anselmi
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:358
  37. Deworming wild foxes by baiting with the anthelmintic praziquantel is being established as a preventive technique against environmental contamination with Echinococcus multilocularis eggs. Improvement of the cost...

    Authors: Takako Ikeda, Masashi Yoshimura, Keiichi Onoyama, Yuzaburo Oku, Nariaki Nonaka and Ken Katakura
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:357
  38. The most common intestinal nematodes of dogs are Toxocara canis, hookworm and Trichuris vulpis. The present study was aimed to validate a new copromicroscopic technique, the Mini-FLOTAC and to compare its diagnos...

    Authors: Maria P Maurelli, Laura Rinaldi, Settimia Alfano, Paola Pepe, Gerald C Coles and Giuseppe Cringoli
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:356
  39. Gastrointestinal nematodes cause significant economic losses in the sheep industry, with frequent reports of anthelmintic resistance. Therefore, alternative methods to control these parasites are necessary. Th...

    Authors: Guilherme Costa Fausto, Felipe Lamberti Pivoto, Márcio Machado Costa, Sônia Terezinha dos Anjos Lopes, Raqueli Teresinha França, Marcelo Beltrão Molento, Antonio Humberto Hamad Minervino, João Batista Teixeira da Rocha and Marta Lizandra do Rêgo Leal
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:355
  40. Among many neglected tropical diseases endemic in Honduras, soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections are of particular importance. However, knowledge gaps remain in terms of risk factors involved in infectio...

    Authors: José Antonio Gabrie, María Mercedes Rueda, Maritza Canales, Theresa W Gyorkos and Ana Lourdes Sanchez
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:354
  41. Mediterranean Spotted Fever (MSF), whose etiological agent is R. conorii, is one of the oldest described vector-borne infectious diseases. Although it is endemic in the Mediterranean area, clinical cases have als...

    Authors: Ferran Segura, Immaculada Pons, Jaime Miret, Júlia Pla, Anna Ortuño and María-Mercedes Nogueras
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:353
  42. Thelazia callipaeda (Spirurida, Thelaziidae), also known as “oriental eyeworm”, is a small nematode parasite that lives in the conjunctival sac of domestic and wild carnivores, rabbits and even humans, causing mi...

    Authors: Adnan Hodžić, Maria Stefania Latrofa, Giada Annoscia, Amer Alić, Relja Beck, Riccardo Paolo Lia, Filipe Dantas-Torres and Domenico Otranto
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:352
  43. Yemen is a Mediterranean country where 65% of its population is at risk of malaria, with 43% at high risk. Yemen is still in the control phase without sustainable reduction in the proportion of malaria cases. ...

    Authors: Omar AA Bamaga, Mohammed AK Mahdy, Rohela Mahmud and Yvonne AL Lim
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:351
  44. Previous research on determinants of malaria in Burkina Faso has largely focused on individual risk factors. Malaria risk, however, is also shaped by community, health system, and climatic/environmental charac...

    Authors: Sekou Samadoulougou, Mathieu Maheu-Giroux, Fati Kirakoya-Samadoulougou, Mathilde De Keukeleire, Marcia C Castro and Annie Robert
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:350
  45. Proteins from the ABC family (ATP-binding cassette) represent the largest known group of efflux pumps, responsible for transporting specific molecules across lipid membranes in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic ...

    Authors: Sara Epis, Daniele Porretta, Valentina Mastrantonio, Francesco Comandatore, Davide Sassera, Paolo Rossi, Claudia Cafarchia, Domenico Otranto, Guido Favia, Claudio Genchi, Claudio Bandi and Sandra Urbanelli
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:349
  46. Anopheles barbirostris is a vector of malaria in Sri Lanka. The taxon exists as a species complex in the Southeast Asian region. Previous studies using molecular markers suggest that there are more than 4 distinc...

    Authors: Kanapathy Gajapathy, Pavilupillai J Jude, Sara L Goodacre, Lalanthika BS Peiris, Ranjan Ramasamy and Sinnathamby N Surendran
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:348
  47. Dirofilaria repens is the causative agent of subcutaneous dirofilariosis of dogs, other animals and humans. This nematode is transmitted by mosquitoes of Aedes, Anopheles and Culex genera. In dogs, the parasite m...

    Authors: Angela Di Cesare, Gabriele Braun, Emanuela Di Giulio, Barbara Paoletti, Vincenzo Aquilino, Roberto Bartolini, Francesco La Torre, Silvana Meloni, Jason Drake, Federico Pandolfi, Stefania Avolio and Donato Traversa
    Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2014 7:347

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