Detection of Bartonella alsatica in European wild rabbit and their fleas (Spilopsyllus cuniculi and Xenopsylla cunicularis) in Spain.

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Brazil, preventive chemotherapy targeting soil-transmitted helminthiasis is being scaled-up. Hence, spatially explicit estimates of infection risks providing information about the current situation are needed to guide interventions. Available high-resolution national model-based estimates either rely on a...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Chammartin F,Guimarães LH,Scholte RG,Bavia ME,Utzinger J,Vounatsou P

更新日期：2014-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Zoonotic onchocerciasis is a vector-borne disease, which involves many animal species, including large ungulates, boars, dogs, and sporadically, humans. So far, 39 cases of zoonotic onchocerciasis have been reported worldwide, 30 of which have been found in the last 20 years. Onchocerca nematodes are transmi...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Wesołowska M,Zając-Pytrus H,Masny A,Pytrus W,Knysz B,Golab E,Sałamatin R

更新日期：2020-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Schistosoma japonicum is a parasitic flatworm that causes human schistosomiasis. Secreted extracellular vesicles (EVs) play a key role in pathogen-host interfaces. Previous studies have shown that S. japonicum adult worms can release microRNA (miRNA)-containing EVs, which can transfer their cargo to mammalia...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Zhu S,Wang S,Lin Y,Jiang P,Cui X,Wang X,Zhang Y,Pan W

更新日期：2016-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The transformation of noninfective epimastigotes into infective metacyclic trypomastigotes (metacyclogenesis) is a fundamental step in the life cycle of Trypanosoma cruzi, comprising several morphological and biochemical changes. GP82 and GP90 are glycoproteins expressed at the surface of metacyclic trypomas...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Bayer-Santos E,Cunha-e-Silva NL,Yoshida N,Franco da Silveira J

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Abundance and species composition of sympatric malaria vector species are the important factors governing transmission intensity. A widespread insecticidal bed net coverage may replace endophagic species with exophagic species. However, unique local environments also influence a vector population. This study...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Futami K,Dida GO,Sonye GO,Lutiali PA,Mwania MS,Wagalla S,Lumumba J,Kongere JO,Njenga SM,Minakawa N

更新日期：2014-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Improved surveillance techniques are required to accelerate efforts against major arthropod-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue, filariasis, Zika and yellow-fever. Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are increasingly used in mosquito traps because they improve energy efficiency and battery longevity relative to ...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Mwanga EP,Ngowo HS,Mapua SA,Mmbando AS,Kaindoa EW,Kifungo K,Okumu FO

更新日期：2019-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The pork tapeworm, Taenia solium, is a serious public health problem in rural low-resource areas of Latin America, Africa and Asia, where the associated conditions of nuerocysticercosis (NCC) and porcine cysticercosis cause substantial health and economic harms. An accurate and validated transmission model f...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Pray IW,Wakeland W,Pan W,Lambert WE,Garcia HH,Gonzalez AE,O'Neal SE,Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru.

更新日期：2020-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The present study was conducted to investigate the serological survey of Toxoplasma antibodies in local.horses from three major regions: a neighbourhood of a city in the North (Sidi Thabet), a neighbourhood of a city on the coast (Monastir) and a neighbourhood of a city in the middle (Battan) of Tunisia (Nor...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Boughattas S,Bergaoui R,Essid R,Aoun K,Bouratbine A

更新日期：2011-11-22 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：:This review explores some of the reasons why food webs seem to contain relatively few parasite species when compared to the full diversity of free living species in the system. At present, there are few coherent food web theories to guide scientific studies on parasites, and this review posits that the methods, direct...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Sukhdeo MV

更新日期：2012-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In West Africa, populations of the malaria vector mosquito, Anopheles coluzzii, are seasonally exposed to strong desiccating conditions during the dry season. Their dynamics strictly follows the pace of the availability of suitable larval development sites (water collections). Accordingly, mosquitoes can rep...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Hidalgo K,Siaussat D,Braman V,Dabiré KR,Simard F,Mouline K,Renault D

更新日期：2016-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Paratransgenesis is an approach to reducing arthropod vector competence using genetically modified symbionts. When applied to control of Chagas disease, the symbiont bacterium Rhodococcus rhodnii, resident in the gut lumen of the triatomine vector Rhodnius prolixus (Hemiptera: Reduviidae), is transformed to ...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Matthews S,Rao VS,Durvasula RV

更新日期：2011-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The myxosporean Myxidium giardi Cépède, 1906 was described infecting the kidney of the European eel, Anguilla anguilla (L.), having spindle-shaped myxospores and terminal sub-spherical polar capsules. Since then, numerous anguillid eels globally have been documented to have similar Myxidium infections. Many ...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Freeman MA,Kristmundsson Á

更新日期：2018-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is a mosquito-borne parasitic disease and a major cause of disability worldwide. It is one of the neglected tropical diseases identified by the World Health Organization for elimination as a public health problem by 2020. Maps displaying disease distribution are helpful tools to ide...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Eneanya OA,Cano J,Dorigatti I,Anagbogu I,Okoronkwo C,Garske T,Donnelly CA

更新日期：2018-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dengue has become the subject of public health programs worldwide. The lack of a vaccine and the high environmental risk of synthetic insecticides, arouse the interest in natural products against this vector. This study aimed to determine the chemical composition of the essential oil of ripe fruits and seeds...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Pratti DL,Ramos AC,Scherer R,Cruz ZM,Silva AG

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aedes albopictus is widely distributed across tropical and sub-tropical regions and is associated with the transmission of several arboviruses. Although this species is increasingly relevant to public health due its ability to successfully colonize both urban and rural habitats, favoring the dispersion of vi...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Saboia-Vahia L,Cuervo P,Borges-Veloso A,de Souza NP,Britto C,Dias-Lopes G,De Jesus JB

更新日期：2014-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lipoproteins are the major agonists of Wolbachia-dependent inflammatory pathogenesis in filariasis and a validated target for drug discovery. Here we characterise the abundance, localisation and serology of the Wolbachia lipoproteins: Wolbachia peptidoglycan associated lipoprotein and the Type IV Secretion S...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Voronin D,Guimarães AF,Molyneux GR,Johnston KL,Ford L,Taylor MJ

更新日期：2014-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Acaricidal (tick) and insecticidal (flea) efficacy of systemically and cutaneously distributed ectoparasiticide products for dogs are compared based on permethrin and fluralaner as representative molecules. Results of efficacy studies against fleas and ticks are reviewed that show generally good to excellent results. ...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Pfister K,Armstrong R

更新日期：2016-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Antigen B (EgAgB) is an abundant lipoprotein released by the larva of the cestode Echinococcus granulosus into the host tissues. Its protein moiety belongs to the cestode-specific family known as hydrophobic ligand binding protein (HLBP), and is encoded by five gene subfamilies (EgAgB8/1-EgAgB8/5). The funct...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Silva-Álvarez V,Folle AM,Ramos AL,Kitano ES,Iwai LK,Corraliza I,Córsico B,Ferreira AM

更新日期：2016-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Cqm1 α-glucosidase of Culex quinquefasciatus larvae acts as the midgut receptor for the binary toxin of the biolarvicide Lysinibacillus sphaericus. Mutations within the cqm1 gene can code for aberrant polypeptides that can no longer be properly expressed or bind to the toxin, leading to insect resistance...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Menezes HS,Chalegre KD,Romão TP,Oliveira CM,de-Melo-Neto OP,Silva-Filha MH

更新日期：2016-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:African trypanosomes are extracellular protozoan parasites that are transmitted between mammalian hosts by the bite of an infected tsetse fly. Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) or sleeping sickness is caused by Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense or T. brucei gambiense, while African Animal Trypanosomiasis (AAT...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Nakayima J,Nakao R,Alhassan A,Mahama C,Afakye K,Sugimoto C

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nematodirus battus, unlike most other gastrointestinal nematodes, undergoes maturation to an infective larva within the egg. Historically, eggs were considered to require a period of chilling over winter followed by a period of temperature above 10 °C for synchronous hatching to occur (generally in spring). ...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Melville LA,Van Dijk J,Mitchell S,Innocent G,Bartley DJ

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Arboviruses infecting people primarily exist in urban transmission cycles involving urban mosquitoes in densely populated tropical regions. For dengue, chikungunya, Zika and yellow fever viruses, sylvatic (forest) transmission cycles also exist in some regions and involve non-human primates and forest-dwelling mosquit...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Valentine MJ,Murdock CC,Kelly PJ

更新日期：2019-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Trypanosoma rangeli is a protozoan that infects a variety of mammalian hosts, including humans. Its main insect vector is Rhodnius prolixus and is found in several Latin American countries. The R. prolixus vector competence depends on the T. rangeli strain and the molecular interactions, as well as the insec...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Vieira CS,Mattos DP,Waniek PJ,Santangelo JM,Figueiredo MB,Gumiel M,da Mota FF,Castro DP,Garcia ES,Azambuja P

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The myxosporean parasite Parvicapsula pseudobranchicola commonly infects farmed Atlantic salmon in northern Norway. Heavy infections are associated with pseudobranch lesions, runting and mortality in the salmon populations. The life-cycle of the parasite is unknown, preventing controlled challenge experiment...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Nylund A,Hansen H,Brevik ØJ,Hustoft H,Markussen T,Plarre H,Karlsbakk E

更新日期：2018-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Knowledge of insecticide resistance status in the main malaria vectors is an essential component of effective malaria vector control. This study presents the first evaluation of the status of insecticide resistance in Anopheles gambiae populations from Bangui, the Central African Republic. METHODS:Anopheles...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Olé Sangba ML,Sidick A,Govoetchan R,Dide-Agossou C,Ossè RA,Akogbeto M,Ndiath MO

更新日期：2017-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Both falciparum and vivax malaria were historically prevalent in China with high incidence. With the control efforts, the annual incidence in the whole country has reduced to 0.0001% except in some areas in the southern borders after 2000. Despite this, the re-emergence or outbreak of malaria was unavoidable...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Pan JY,Zhou SS,Zheng X,Huang F,Wang DQ,Shen YZ,Su YP,Zhou GC,Liu F,Jiang JJ

更新日期：2012-07-09 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:Hemotropic mycoplasmas are epicellular erythrocytic bacteria that can cause infectious anemia in some mammalian species. Worldwide, hemotropic mycoplasmas are emerging or re-emerging zoonotic pathogens potentially causing serious and significant health problems in wildlife. The objective of this study was to...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Mascarelli PE,Keel MK,Yabsley M,Last LA,Breitschwerdt EB,Maggi RG

更新日期：2014-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Longicin is a defensin-like peptide, identified from the midgut epithelium of hard tick Haemaphysalis longicornis. Several studies have already shown the antimicrobial and parasiticidal activities of longicin peptide and one of its synthetic partial analogs, longicin P4. In this study, longicin peptides were...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Talactac MR,Yoshii K,Maeda H,Kusakisako K,Hernandez EP,Tsuji N,Fujisaki K,Galay RL,Tanaka T,Mochizuki M

更新日期：2016-02-02 00:00:00