Structural and functional characterization of a novel gene, Hc-daf-22, from the strongylid nematode Haemonchus contortus.

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:Lymphatic filariasis (LF) due to Wuchereria bancrofti is being eliminated from Oceania under the Pacific Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis Programme. LF was endemic in Solomon Islands but in the 2010-2020 Strategic Plan of the Global Programme to Eliminate LF, Solomon Islands was listed as non-endemic for ...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Harrington H,Asugeni J,Jimuru C,Gwalaa J,Ribeyro E,Bradbury R,Joseph H,Melrose W,MacLaren D,Speare R

更新日期：2013-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Novel transgenic mosquito control methods require progressively more realistic evaluation. The goal of this study was to determine the effect of a transgene that causes a male-bias sex ratio on Anopheles gambiae target populations in large insectary cages. METHODS:Life history characteristics of Anopheles g...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Facchinelli L,North AR,Collins CM,Menichelli M,Persampieri T,Bucci A,Spaccapelo R,Crisanti A,Benedict MQ

更新日期：2019-02-06 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：:Helminth infection may modulate the expression of Toll like receptors (TLR) in dendritic cells (DCs) and modify the responsiveness of DCs to TLR ligands. This may regulate aberrant intestinal inflammation in humans with helminthes and may thus help alleviate inflammation associated with human inflammatory bowel diseas...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Sun S,Wang X,Wu X,Zhao Y,Wang F,Liu X,Song Y,Wu Z,Liu M

更新日期：2011-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Ticks (Acari: Ixodida) are arthropod ectoparasites dependent on a bloodmeal from a vertebrate host at each developmental stage for completion of their life cycle. This tick feeding cycle impacts animal health by causing damage to hides, secondary infections, immune reactions and diseases caused by transmission of path...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Kocan KM,de la Fuente J,Coburn LA

更新日期：2015-11-14 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:Arboviruses are a growing public health concern in Europe, with both endemic and exotic arboviruses expected to spread further into novel areas in the next decades. Predicting where future outbreaks will occur is a major challenge, particularly for regions where these arboviruses are not endemic. Spatial mod...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Esser HJ,Liefting Y,Ibáñez-Justicia A,van der Jeugd H,van Turnhout CAM,Stroo A,Reusken CBEM,Koopmans MPG,de Boer WF

更新日期：2020-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is a continuing need for novel approaches to tick control in dogs. One such approach lies in the ability of lotilaner (Credelio™), an isoxazoline with a rapid onset of action, to provide sustained efficacy against ticks. Two studies were undertaken to confirm lotilaner's efficacy, at the minimum dose r...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Cavalleri D,Murphy M,Gorbea RL,Seewald W,Drake J,Nanchen S

更新日期：2017-11-01 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:In the Eastern and Upper Midwestern regions of North America, Ixodes scapularis (L.) is the most abundant tick species encountered by humans and the primary vector of B. burgdorferi, whereas in the southeastern region Amblyomma americanum (Say) is the most abundant tick species encountered by humans but cann...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Fryxell RT,Steelman CD,Szalanski AL,Kvamme KL,Billingsley PM,Williamson PC

更新日期：2012-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Taenia solium life cycle includes humans as definitive hosts and pigs as intermediate hosts. One of the measures to stop the life cycle of this parasite is by vaccination of pigs. In experiments performed in pigs with TSOL18 and TSOL45-1A, two recombinant T. solium proteins, 99.5% and 97.0% protection was induced, res...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Martinez-Ocaña J,Romero-Valdovinos M,de Kaminsky RG,Maravilla P,Flisser A

更新日期：2011-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genetic information for Toxoplasma gondii isolates from pigs in eastern, south, and southwestern regions of China has been reported previously. However, there are no data from pigs in the northeastern area of the country. To better understand the epidemiology of T. gondii, we determined the seroprevalence an...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Wang D,Liu Y,Jiang T,Zhang G,Yuan G,He J,Su C,Yang N

更新日期：2016-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent reports have demonstrated the presence of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) genomic material in Hyalomma aegyptium ticks feeding primarily on tortoises belonging to the genus Testudo. This raises the question if these ticks and their hosts play a role in the natural transmission dynamics o...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Kar S,Rodriguez SE,Akyildiz G,Cajimat MNB,Bircan R,Mears MC,Bente DA,Keles AG

更新日期：2020-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In this study, a total of 426 human faecal samples were examined for the presence of Entamoeba histolytica, Entamoeba dispar, Entamoeba moshkovskii infection via a combination of microscopic examination and nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) targeting 16S ribosomal RNA of Entamoeba species. METHODS:Faec...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Ngui R,Angal L,Fakhrurrazi SA,Lian YL,Ling LY,Ibrahim J,Mahmud R

更新日期：2012-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Smad proteins function in TGF-β signalling transduction. In the model nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, the co-Smad, DAF-3 mediates R-Smads and performs a central role in DAF-7 signal transduction, regulating dauer formation and reproductive processes. Considering the divergent evolutionary patterns of th...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Di W,Liu L,Zhang T,Li F,He L,Wang C,Ahmad AA,Hassan M,Fang R,Hu M

更新日期：2019-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A microsporidian was previously reported to infect the crustacean parasite, Lepeophtheirus salmonis (Krøyer, 1837) (Copepoda, Caligidae), on farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) in Scotland. The microsporidian was shown to be a novel species with a molecular phylogenetic relationship to Nucleospora (Enter...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Freeman MA,Sommerville C

更新日期：2009-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Taenia multiceps is a harmful tapeworm and its larval form (coenurus cerebralis) is the causative agent of coenurosis, a disease affecting the health of herbivores, resulting in great economic loss to animal husbandry. Heat-shock proteins (HSPs), expressed in all prokaryotes and eukaryotes, act as molecular ...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Liu Y,Guo C,Dong X,Gu X,Xie Y,Lai W,Peng X,Yang G

更新日期：2019-03-12 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:Intestinal parasite infections (IPIs) are among the most significant causes of illness and disease of socially and economically disadvantaged populations in developing countries, including rural areas of the People's Republic of China. With the spread of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) among rural Chi...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Tian LG,Chen JX,Wang TP,Cheng GJ,Steinmann P,Wang FF,Cai YC,Yin XM,Guo J,Zhou L,Zhou XN

更新日期：2012-02-13 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:The diagnosis of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) might be difficult, in particular in endemic areas where different species of Leishmania can cause lesions of very similar appearance and where other skin diseases with similar clinical symptoms occur. Even today, the parasitological diagnosis of CL remains the g...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Mouttaki T,Morales-Yuste M,Merino-Espinosa G,Chiheb S,Fellah H,Martin-Sanchez J,Riyad M

更新日期：2014-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cats appear to be the primary reservoir host for Bartonella koehlerae, an alpha Proteobacteria that is most likely transmitted among cat populations by fleas (Ctenocephalides felis). Bartonella koehlerae has caused endocarditis in a dog and in one human patient from Israel, but other clinically relevant repo...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Breitschwerdt EB,Maggi RG,Robert Mozayeni B,Hegarty BC,Bradley JM,Mascarelli PE

更新日期：2010-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Taxonomic identification of ticks obtained during a longitudinal survey of the critically endangered marsupial, Bettongia penicillata Gray, 1837 (woylie, brush-tailed bettong) revealed a new species of Ixodes Latrielle, 1795. Here we provide morphological data for the female and nymphal life stages of this n...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Ash A,Elliot A,Godfrey S,Burmej H,Abdad MY,Northover A,Wayne A,Morris K,Clode P,Lymbery A,Thompson RC

更新日期：2017-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Enterocytozoon bieneusi is a parasite that infects humans and a wide range of other animals. The large migratory waterfowl, the whooper swan (Cygnus cygnus), travels through many cities during its migration and can spread parasites. Despite receiving increasing attention worldwide, there have been no reports...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Wang Y,Zhang K,Zhang Y,Wang K,Gazizova A,Wang L,Cao L,Zhang Y,Huang J,Cui Y,Zhang Y,Zhang L

更新日期：2020-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The lungworm Dictyocaulus viviparus, causing parasitic bronchitis in cattle, induces a temporary protective immunity that prevents clinical disease. A radiation-attenuated larvae based vaccine is commercially available in a few European countries, but has the disadvantages of a live vaccine. As a recombinant...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Strube C,Haake C,Sager H,Schorderet Weber S,Kaminsky R,Buschbaum S,Joekel D,Schicht S,Kremmer E,Korrell J,Schnieder T,von Samson-Himmelstjerna G

更新日期：2015-02-24 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:Chhattisgarh state in central India is highly endemic for malaria and contributes about 13% of annually reported malaria cases in the country with predominance of P. falciparum. Entomological investigations were carried out in a tribal forested area of district Bastar located in the southern part of Chhattis...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Nanda N,Bhatt RM,Sharma SN,Rana PK,Kar NP,Sharma A,Adak T

更新日期：2012-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The parasitic mite Varroa destructor is considered the major pest of the European honey bee (Apis mellifera) and responsible for declines in honey bee populations worldwide. Exploiting the full potential of gene sequences becoming available for V. destructor requires adaptation of modern molecular biology ap...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Campbell EM,Budge GE,Bowman AS

更新日期：2010-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies of avian haemosporidians allow understanding how these parasites affect wild bird populations, and if their presence is related to factors such as habitat loss, degradation and fragmentation, and climate change. Considering the importance of the highland Plateau of Mexico as part of the North America...

journal_title：Parasites & vectors

authors： Reinoso-Pérez MT,Canales-Delgadillo JC,Chapa-Vargas L,Riego-Ruiz L

更新日期：2016-05-27 00:00:00