The effectiveness of faecal removal methods of pasture management to control the cyathostomin burden of donkeys.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since 2008, the National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) has been engaged in the implementation of indoor residual spraying (IRS) in Benin. The first and second round was a success with a drastic decrease of malaria transmission in areas under IRS. We present here the results of the third round. The purpose o...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Ossè R,Aikpon R,Padonou GG,Oussou O,Yadouléton A,Akogbéto M

更新日期：2012-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Routine molecular surveillance for imported drug-resistant malaria parasites to the USA and European Union is an important public health activity. The obtained molecular data are used to help keep chemoprophylaxis and treatment guidelines up to date for persons traveling to malaria endemic countries. Recent ...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： L'Episcopia M,Kelley J,Patel D,Schmedes S,Ravishankar S,Menegon M,Perrotti E,Nurahmed AM,Talha AA,Nour BY,Lucchi N,Severini C,Talundzic E

更新日期：2020-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A blinded, randomized, negative controlled laboratory study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of lotilaner (CredelioTM, Elanco) when administered orally to dogs, against experimentally induced adult flea infestations and flea egg production. METHODS:Twenty dogs were selected for the study and allocated...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Young L,Karadzovska D,Wiseman S,Helbig R

更新日期：2020-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Control and eventual elimination of human parasitic diseases in the People's Republic of China (P.R. China) requires novel approaches, particularly in the areas of diagnostics, mathematical modelling, monitoring, evaluation, surveillance and public health response. A comprehensive effort, involving the collaboration o...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Chen JH,Wang H,Chen JX,Bergquist R,Tanner M,Utzinger J,Zhou XN

更新日期：2012-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Accurate identification of schistosome species infecting intermediate host snails is important for understanding parasite transmission, schistosomiasis control and elimination. Cercariae emerging from infected snails cannot be precisely identified morphologically to the species level. We used molecular tools...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Tian-Bi YT,Webster B,Konan CK,Allan F,Diakité NR,Ouattara M,Salia D,Koné A,Kakou AK,Rabone M,Coulibaly JT,Knopp S,Meïté A,Utzinger J,N'Goran EK,Rollinson D

更新日期：2019-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The survival of adult female Aedes mosquitoes is a critical component of their ability to transmit pathogens such as dengue viruses. One of the principal determinants of Aedes survival is temperature, which has been associated with seasonal changes in Aedes populations and limits their geographical distribut...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Brady OJ,Johansson MA,Guerra CA,Bhatt S,Golding N,Pigott DM,Delatte H,Grech MG,Leisnham PT,Maciel-de-Freitas R,Styer LM,Smith DL,Scott TW,Gething PW,Hay SI

更新日期：2013-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chagas disease control programmes have decreased the prevalence of Chagas disease in Latin America. Together with migration to urban areas and increase in life expectancy, a new scenario for Chagas disease has emerged in Brazil with most patients currently elderly individuals living in urban areas. However, ...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Vizzoni AG,Varela MC,Sangenis LHC,Hasslocher-Moreno AM,do Brasil PEAA,Saraiva RM

更新日期：2018-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prevalence of bovine babesiosis caused by Babesia divergens has been declining during the past decades in northeastern Hungary, and no cases have been observed since 2008. Infections of cattle with B. major and Theileria buffeli were hitherto reported in southern and western Europe. In other parts of the...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Hornok S,Mester A,Takács N,Fernández de Mera IG,de la Fuente J,Farkas R

更新日期：2014-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Canine dirofilariasis due to Dirofilaria immitis is known to be endemic in continental Portugal. However, information about the transmitting mosquito species is still scarce, with only Culex theileri identified to date, albeit with L1-2, through dissection. This study was carried out to investigate the poten...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Ferreira CA,de Pinho Mixão V,Novo MT,Calado MM,Gonçalves LA,Belo SM,de Almeida AP

更新日期：2015-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Carboxylesterase overproduction is a frequently observed resistance mechanism of insects to organophosphate insecticides. As a major transmitter of human diseases, mosquitoes in the Culex pipiens complex have evolved 13 carboxylesterase alleles (Ester) that confer organophosphate resistance. Six alleles, Est...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Zhang H,Meng F,Qiao C,Cui F

更新日期：2012-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A good understanding of mosquito ecology is imperative for integrated vector control of malaria. In breeding sites, Anopheles larvae are concurrently exposed to predators and parasites. However, to our knowledge, there is no study on combined effects of predators and parasites on development and survival of ...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Ong'wen F,Onyango PO,Bukhari T

更新日期：2020-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chagas disease, caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, is mainly transmitted by blood-sucking bugs called triatomines. In the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico, the main vector of T. cruzi is Triatoma dimidiata. While this species may colonize houses in other regions, it is mostly intrusive in Yucatán: it general...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Waleckx E,Pasos-Alquicira R,Ramírez-Sierra MJ,Dumonteil E

更新日期：2016-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding the variation in prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (Lyme Borreliosis Spirochaetes, LBS) and Anaplasma phagocytophilum (causing tick-borne fever in ruminants and human granulocytic ehrlichiosis) in ticks is vital from both a human and an animal disease perspective to target the most ...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Mysterud A,Easterday WR,Qviller L,Viljugrein H,Ytrehus B

更新日期：2013-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:West Nile virus (WNV) is a Flavivirus transmitted to vertebrate hosts by mosquitoes, maintained in nature through an enzootic bird-mosquito cycle. In Europe the virus became of major public health and veterinary concern in the 1990s. In Italy, WNV re-emerged in 2008, ten years after the previous outbreak and...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Ravagnan S,Montarsi F,Cazzin S,Porcellato E,Russo F,Palei M,Monne I,Savini G,Marangon S,Barzon L,Capelli G

更新日期：2015-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Resistance to chemical insecticides plus high morbidity rates have lead to rising interest in fungi as candidates for biocontrol agents of mosquito vectors. In most studies fungal infections have been induced by exposure of mosquitoes to various surfaces treated with conidia. In the present study eight Mexic...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： García-Munguía AM,Garza-Hernández JA,Rebollar-Tellez EA,Rodríguez-Pérez MA,Reyes-Villanueva F

更新日期：2011-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ticks are increasingly reported on cats worldwide, with Ixodes ricinus being a relevant species across Europe and in near by areas of North Africa and the Middle East. Yet there are few acaracidal products with proven efficacy approved for use in cats. The objective of this study was to compare the efficacy ...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Geurden T,Borowski S,Wozniakiewicz M,King V,Fourie J,Liebenberg J

更新日期：2017-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cryptosporidiosis is a gastrointestinal disease affecting many people worldwide. Disease incidence is often unknown and surveillance of human cryptosporidiosis is installed in only a handful of developed countries. A genetic marker that mirrors disease incidence is potentially a powerful tool for monitoring ...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Takumi K,Cacciò SM,van der Giessen J,Xiao L,Sprong H

更新日期：2015-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The control of insects of medical importance, such as Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus are still the only effective way to prevent the transmission of diseases, such as dengue, chikungunya and Zika. Their control is performed mainly using chemical products; however, they often have low specificity to non-target orga...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： da Silva WJ,Pilz-Júnior HL,Heermann R,da Silva OS

更新日期：2020-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND: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 may cause subclinical infection or cutaneous signs. Recently, D. repens has emerged and spread in ...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Di Cesare A,Braun G,Di Giulio E,Paoletti B,Aquilino V,Bartolini R,La Torre F,Meloni S,Drake J,Pandolfi F,Avolio S,Traversa D

更新日期：2014-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Landscape structure can affect pathogen prevalence and persistence with consequences for human and animal health. Few studies have examined how reservoir host species traits may interact with landscape structure to alter pathogen communities and dynamics. Using a landscape of islands and mainland sites we in...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Millins C,Dickinson ER,Isakovic P,Gilbert L,Wojciechowska A,Paterson V,Tao F,Jahn M,Kilbride E,Birtles R,Johnson P,Biek R

更新日期：2018-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prolonged feeding process of ixodid ticks, in combination with bacterial transmission, should lead to a robust inflammatory response at the blood-feeding site. Yet, factors present in tick saliva may down-regulate such responses, which may be beneficial to spirochete transmission. The primary goal of thi...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Scholl DC,Embers ME,Caskey JR,Kaushal D,Mather TN,Buck WR,Morici LA,Philipp MT

更新日期：2016-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hepatocellular carcinoma-associated antigen 59 (HCA59), which is one of the most important excretory/secretory products of Haemonchus contortus (HcESPs), is known to have antigenic functions. However, its immunomodulatory effects on host cells are poorly understood. METHODS:Here, we cloned the HCA59 gene an...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Wang Q,Wu L,Hasan MW,Lu M,Wang W,Yan R,Xu L,Song X,Li X

更新日期：2019-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The sibling species of the malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae (sensu stricto) and Anopheles coluzzii co-exist in many parts of West Africa and are thought to have recently diverged through a process of ecological speciation with gene flow. Divergent larval ecological adaptations, resulting in Genotype-by-En...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Akpodiete NO,Tripet F

更新日期：2021-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the last decades, the enormous influx of immigrants to industrialized countries has led to outbreaks of parasitic diseases, with enteric infections being amongst the most frequently encountered. In its strategy to control such infection, Qatar has established the Pre-Employment Certificate (PEC) program w...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Abu-Madi MA,Behnke JM,Ismail A,Boughattas S

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Infections by protozoans of the genus Giardia are a common cause of diarrhea in dogs. Canine giardiosis constitutes a disease with a zoonotic potential; however, it is often underestimated due to its challenging diagnosis. The objective of the study was to assess the diagnostic performance of an immunochroma...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Symeonidou I,Gelasakis AΙ,Miliotou AN,Angelou A,Arsenopoulos KV,Loukeri S,Papadopoulos E

更新日期：2020-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Domestic cats play a key role in the epidemiology of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii by excreting environmentally-resistant oocysts that may infect humans and other warm-blooded animals. The dynamics of Toxoplasma gondii seroconversion, used as a proxy for primo-infection dynamics, was investigated in five ca...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Simon JA,Pradel R,Aubert D,Geers R,Villena I,Poulle ML

更新日期：2018-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Liver fibrosis is an excessive wound-healing reaction that requires the participation of inflammatory cells and hepatic stellate cells (HSCs). The pathogenesis of liver fibrosis caused by viruses and alcohol has been well characterized, but the molecular mechanisms underlying liver fibrosis induced by the li...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Zhou L,Shi M,Zhao L,Lin Z,Tang Z,Sun H,Chen T,Lv Z,Xu J,Huang Y,Yu X

更新日期：2017-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Trichinella nematodes are globally distributed food-borne pathogens, in which Trichinella spiralis is the most common species in China. Microsatellites are a powerful tool in population genetics and phylogeographic analysis. However, only a few microsatellite markers were reported in T. spiralis. Thus, there...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Li TT,Tang B,Bai X,Wang XL,Luo XN,Yan HB,Zhu HF,Jia H,Liu XL,Liu MY

更新日期：2020-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Echinococcus transmission is known to be affected by various environmental factors, which may be modified by human influence or natural events including global warming. Considerable population growth in the last fifty years in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (NHAR), the People's Republic of China (PRC), has led to drama...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Yang YR,Clements AC,Gray DJ,Atkinson JA,Williams GM,Barnes TS,McManus DP

更新日期：2012-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dirofilaria immitis is a mosquito-borne pathogen that is spreading worldwide, and the associated infection (i.e. dirofilariosis) is becoming a threat to animals and humans living in endemic areas. Little is known about the occurrence and risk of infection of D. immitis in pinnipeds. Here we report dirofilari...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Alho AM,Marcelino I,Colella V,Flanagan C,Silva N,Correia JJ,Latrofa MS,Otranto D,Madeira de Carvalho L

更新日期：2017-03-13 00:00:00